Hatred often makes you want to hurt people, but people hurt peope in the name of greed more often, and not only with less potential for guilt, but is often the cause of delusional accolades and reassurance both from within oneself and from others.

Hypothetical:

A CEO lays off 10,000 employees that helped that company succeed, solely to increase earnings and not because the company is hurting, not only seriously hurting 9,997 people, but causing 3 to commit suicide.

A bumpkin gets in a fight with someone he hates the melanin of because he’s a moron and kills them.

Who did more damage to humanity that day? They’re both, I want to say evil but evil is subjective, they’re both highly antisocial, knowingly harmful behaviors, yet one correctly sends you to prison for a long time if not forever, while the other, far more premeditated and quite literally calculated act, is literally rewarded and partied about. Jim Kramer gives you a shout out on tv, good fucking times amirite!

Edit: and this felt relevant to post after someone tried to lecture me about equating layoffs to murder.

“Coca-Cola killed trade unionists in Latin America. General Motors built vehicles known to catch fire. Tobacco companies suppressed cancer research. And Boeing knew that its planes were dangerous. Corporations don’t care if they kill people — as long as it’s profitable.”

https://jacobin.com/2020/01/corporations-profit-values-murder-culture-boeing

  • SCB@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    If leftists were not gullible people with fundamental misunderstandings of the world, they wouldn’t be leftists.

      • SCB@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s just meme leftism. Actual leftists who are like, activists and shit, at least can acknowledge reality.

        This is more like “The Donald” than like a local Republican office, as an example. Might have the same ideology, but people are considerably less informed and more unhinged.

    • MinekPo1 [it/she]@lemmygrad.ml
      11·
      1 year ago

      Highly educated adults – particularly those who have attended graduate school – are far more likely than those with less education to take predominantly liberal positions across a range of political values.

      A graph comparing ones education to political opinion. A positive correlation

      - Pew Research Center

      • SCB@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        My old boss has 2 graduated degrees and believes that human vibration frequencies are out of whack and that’s why the world has strife.

        Educated people can buy into total nonsense.

        Also I very highly doubt that most people here have their undergrad, even.