Of course she should but so should have all the incompetent asshats that were leaking war information on signal. But none of them did.
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She was picked because she did not ask for FEMA assistance for flood victims in her state for a month and then used the slow method. Hegseth was picked because he petitioned Trump to pardon soldiers that committed war crimes against civilians. They have specific skill sets.
jul 10, 2025, 6:04 am • 6 0 • view
Or, to make the same point, you could say they lack specific human skill sets. In this case, empathy and basic ethical awareness.
jul 10, 2025, 6:11 am • 6 0 • view
I was having a conversation with another Bluesky-er. He/she was trying to say the Nazi’s were worse and we should not call the concentration camp Auschwitz. As part of the argument, he said that Nazi’s thought empathy was a weak trait of Jews. Now we have a social movement that despises empathy.
jul 10, 2025, 6:17 am • 6 0 • view
indeed! There's a brilliant line in Macbeth that captures this sort of degeneration of human empathy: "Where violent sorrow seems a modern ecstasy" These hideous people actually take pleasure in inflicting pain and despair.
jul 10, 2025, 6:26 am • 3 0 • view
Nothing is new under the sun.
jul 10, 2025, 6:17 am • 5 0 • view