Another superficial style over substance fallacy: you argue over style rather than address substance. As remarked earlier, such cheap, emotionally-stunted tactics for a superficial, self-centered mind aren’t a great argument for empathy.
Same advice as before: self-reflect, take personal inventory.
Earlier remarks stand.
Hostility biased to construe a forthright criticism maliciously for not being ingratiating to your standards demonstrates an insecurity more concerned with saving face rather than consideration for points others make, so it’s not particularly empathetic or enlightened, and it’s somewhat entitled. A just person cares more about doing what is right than in satisfying their ego even when it seems to cost them and goes unappreciated. Their acts are an unusual wonder.
So, they have less empathy for the outgroup of puppets? That’s not a strong argument for inborn empathy.
While I can’t speak for you, I remember imagining inanimate objects had feelings as a kid, which made choices to reject something absurdly difficult.
Facial preferences don’t help, either, and are part of an established body of research showing the early, undirected manifestation of discriminatory biases. On racism, for example
Race is a multidimensional and socially constructed (Smedley & Smedley, 2005) lens through which even infants engage with the social world. Research from racially and culturally diverse contexts has shown that 3-month-olds prefer faces from particular racial groups (Bar-Haim, Ziv, Lamy, & Hodes, 2006), and 9-month-olds use race to categorize faces (Anzures, Quinn, Pascalis, Slater, & Lee, 2010). Before entering preschool, 3-year-old United States-based children associate low-status racial groups with negative traits (Dunham, Chen, & Banaji, 2013; Newheiser, Dunham, Merrill, Hoosain, & Olson, 2014), and by age 4, they associate particular racial groups (e.g., Whites) with high status markers (e.g., wealth; Olson, Shutts, Kinzler, & Weisman, 2012). And United States children experience the negative consequences of living in a racialized world: seven-year-olds experience racial discrimination (Marcelo & Yates, 2019), and race-based discrimination is widespread in schools (U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2018).
the APA has argued racist ideas can emerge early, so adults need to talk about race with their children earlier. Such biases are not very empathetic and need correction.
Empathy is a skill that needs development.
Empathy as a moral guide usually refers to universal empathy rather than a biased, discriminatory empathy favoring only an in-group.
Infants show biases such as in-group favoritism early
But the next finding surprised the researchers: When the puppet that dropped the ball did not share the babies’ taste in food, the infants preferred the mean puppet to the helper. In other words: Babies prefer someone who is nice to an individual similar to themselves, but they also prefer someone who is mean to a dissimilar individual.
That’s not empathetic.
True, and an awful lot of fools react with hostility to facts that offend them. Where is their empathy?
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Case in point: this image is basically pure text, but in a form unperceivable to people who need actual text.
No empathy there.
Empathy truly is radical.
Jeffries most recently failed at the basic duty of party leader to whip votes to impeach Hegseth.
Clearly unfit to carry that role as speaker.
Do you know the truth? How?
Not really: corporate boards of directors & stockholders are better coordinated & focused on narrower goals of protecting a business’s earning potential than the entire voting populace and government institutions are in coordinating or even agreeing on the broader mission of government. Half the people seem virulently hostile to the government and want it to fail.
If half the corporate directors and investors wanted it fail, you could expect similar results and failures. However, people don’t tend to invest in companies with the intent of destroying the worth of their investment.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone who spares the slightest moment to think seriously about the obvious, structural differences. Profit-driven businesses are simpler to govern than national governments.
It’s an outcome opposite the one ostensibly stated or intended, ie, irony. Much like their attempts to end religious neutrality they claim represses Christianity enables the Satanic Temple to cause them grief, another rightwing policy intended to end cultural neutrality that deters their white ethnocentricity is still deterring celebrations they’d want. They’re their own enemy.
That’s lol, but alt text would make it sweeter (web accessibility, text search, etc).
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You know text can be copied?
Converting text to non-text content makes it unperceivable to users who need text and disables text-based functions (eg, search).
Rightwing policies have ironically turned them into “PC police” and “cancel culture” their policies were intended to destroy except for the opposite motive.
I’d only give the ones with an emergency or medical excuse a pass.
Stevens is firmly pro-Israel, whose government dragged the US into the unauthorized war. Their Israel lobby funding might be worth checking. However, plenty of Democrats with significant funding nonetheless likely attended to vote, because Hegseth is that awful.
Wasn’t a forgone conclusion: the votes would have sufficed if they attended on time.
It was a last ditch effort by a republican to shed his fascist affiliations
Not really: that Republican wasn’t shedding affiliations. He opposed the administration enough for the administration to endorse a competitor to cost him the primary. This was another step of many predating the election.
Most blamed traffic delays, but as another legislator put it
“We knew that this vote was coming, so people should have gotten their raggedy selves up these steps to vote,” Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-California) told reporters. “There is no reason why we should have lost this vote because of attendance issues.”
Others were in their home state, had a personal emergency, or couldn’t travel until medically cleared.
The vote was held at 18:02 EST. Democrats who didn’t vote
Enforce web accessibility.
Bluesky and other parts of the fediverse like mastodon do this well.
Some communities do it better, but lemmy instances overall do not.
Lemmy users consistently show they do not get it, defend panaceas that do not fulfill web accessibility, and respond with hostility when it’s pointed out that inaccessible content is a systematic failure of will (poor choices of client & execution), not of capacity.