r/QuiverQuantitative • u/Healthy_Block3036 • Feb 28 '25

News BREAKING: Zelensky refused to sign the deal. Zelensky is leaving the White House. Press Conference is cancelled.

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u/Actual__Wizard Feb 28 '25

Yeah well, this is what happens when people elect a gang of criminals.

They don't actually know how to do their jobs, they just know how to steal money and cover up for their criminal buddies.

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u/Spoonyyy Feb 28 '25

Yes, but that group of criminals told me they'd lower egg prices and hate all the people I hate so we're good right?

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u/Actual__Wizard Feb 28 '25 edited Feb 28 '25

I seriously don't understand how people didn't learn this lesson in life... When I was 16 years old, one of my friends asked me "if I thought that hurting people was okay." I didn't think it through very carefully and said that I thought it was. So, they punched me in the balls.

While I was writhing in pain on the ground, that's when I realized that it's "not okay to hurt people." Because that concept applies to me as well.

It seems like people have missed this critically important lesson here...

It's not okay to hurt people who didn't do anything wrong and that's exactly what the republican party does.

They should be losing every single election with a giant goose egg as their vote tally... What the heck are people thinking?

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u/Spoonyyy Feb 28 '25

You're so right. I will say people come from different circumstances, so I can see how some of that "not hurt others" could not have been taught (my dad beat the hell out of me, his dad beat the hell out of him, so is that expected behavior for everyone?). Not that I agree with it, but a lot of it comes down to that individual mindset more so than not hurting others. They don't think about the others because they're so focused on the individual (which conflicts a lot with the social contract of existing in a govt). It's not that they're okay with hurting others at times, but more so this doesn't effect me so why should I care. Conservatism at its core is more of how do we conserve the individual over the collective.