My 80-something dad wants to take a poetry course because “it wasn’t taught well but those words really spoke to me and were easy to remember.” Any suggestions?
#poetry #learning #empathy

Rachel showed clips of the funeral procession for 4 American soldiers who died in #Lithuania last week.

People there lining the streets, all holding American flags, many in tears...

...while #TheOrangeMenace couldn't even be bothered to pull himself away from the golf course. #Empathy
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/donald-trump-blows-off-dignified-transfer-of-fallen-u-s-soldiers-for-golf-events-236615749688

Something that is a common theme I notice about #maga trolls is they often view #kindness and #empathy in a man as weak.

They all buy into the ideas #elonmusk and #trump go by, that success and masculinity is defined by money, and cruelty, and you're less of a man if you don't have a "real job" or ask for #help or even help others.

It's a sign of #strength and #intelligence. I often find the most empathetic people I meet, are also the smartest.

https://scoopzapp.com/n/10Cb00tG?ctype=native_video&nid=3951472740721&s=a7&pd=0LRF5CpA&hl=en_US&send_time=1743959349&actBtn=videoShare

If the exploitation of others were all that mattered, evolution should never have got into the empathy business. But it did, and the political and economic elites had better grasp that in a hurry.
-- Frans de Waal (Primatologist)

#Wisdom #Quotes #FransdeWaal #Empathy #Evolution #Politics

#Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Go #America ! The rest of the world had lost faith you could stand up for yourself, let alone a future based on #empathy.

While Gil Scott Heron and the Black Power Liberation taught us in 1970 that "the #revolution won't be televised", seeing my wall awash with #handsoff protests across the #USA tells me and everyone else that we don't need #legacymedia to broadcast or boycott anything. Keep pushing!

Would you join the resistance if stuck in an authoritarian regime? Here’s the psychology
#Authoritarianism #Resistance #Psychology #Empathy #Leadership #Democracy #HumanRights #SocialJustice #FightForFreedom #Ethics #Oppression #StandUp #CivilResistance
https://the-14.com/would-you-join-the-resistance-if-stuck-in-an-authoritarian-regime-heres-the-psychology/

Where @ethanz tells us about the cultural power of #DontLookUp:

"But there’s something Don’t Look Up gets right. Many of our #institutions are failing us. The experts don’t know what to do. The feelings of terror and helplessness lead people to behave strangely and unpredictably. McKay doesn’t offer us a solution to an ongoing #apocalypse, but this #film, at its best, offers us a moment of #empathy. Look past the machinations of the politicians and the media stars, and look towards the people in the background trying to make sense of a reality that no longer makes sense, disrupted by #COVID or #climatechange or by a slide into #authoritarianism. If there’s a solution to this polycrisis, this interconnected mess of apocalyptic threats, it’s in the #groups working to live through this scary moment, not through the politicians or celebrities who’ll get to escape to their bunkers or spaceships."

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/04/04/science-on-screen-dont-look-up/

Luck of the Draw

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hxdiWv2EcaI

“We live in such an unjust world”

from 2017 but well worth reading!

study: White people lack #empathy across the socioeconomic spectrum

Apparent empathy gap among white Americans shows up on questions of both race & economics

#BlackLivesMatter #Socioeconomics #WhitePrivilege #race #economics #cruelty https://www.salon.com/2017/09/19/new-study-white-people-lack-empathy-across-the-socioeconomic-spectrum/

Today I learned that having #empathy and calling off genocide supporters is "a big part of what is wrong with #America".

You can't simply demand your "good" leaders to NOT support genocide, because the other side may crash the #economy and hurt the "good Americans" who benefit from the #genocide.

These people are pissed, because their comfortable life has been disrupted because half of the voters elected the orange Hitler who is the uncovered and naked version of America they have been ignoring for the past 70 years when their government did this to so many countries again and again.

But now, it's happening to THEM and it's an OUTRAGE. And it's the fault of those who disrupted the illusion of the humane and prosperous US of A.

#USpol #Inhumanity #politics #Dumbfuckistan
@palestine

Source: unconsciousjourneys.com

Is #DonaldTrump even capaable of #empathy

#USPolitics

https://www.unconsciousjourneys.com/p/trumps-impaired-empathy

Source: The New Yorker

#DonaldTrump #USPolitics #Christian #Empathy

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-donald-trump-is-teaching-christians-to-abandon-empathy-albert-mohler

#KristiBurke (a.k.a. Jezebel Vibes) on how to encourage more #women to speak about #atheism on #YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOucyUDetNI

As the #political climate in the #US. has intensified, her work has expanded to confront the rise of #Christiannationalism and #authoritarianism. Through a thoughtful, balanced lens rooted in #criticalthinking, #empathy, and a commitment to productive action, she aims to empower others to resist and engage meaningfully with the world around them.

#elonmusk thinks #empathy is a weakness..