MikaJun 22, 2023
Rod Faulkner
People SUFFER + DIE from POVERTY: lack of access to healthcare, scarcity of affordable housing, substandard wages + hunger every day. Black + Brown people go missing daily. Racist encounters can often be fatal. Funny, I don't hear massive calls "for compassion" for their suffering. The 1% definitely don't give a damn. If they did society would look very different. But when billionaires, who due to their own hubris and foolishness, voluntarily take dangerous risks with their own lives, then pay the ultimate price - suddenly there are calls for "compassion and grace." To be the "better person." Folks, people are TIRED of struggling to survive amidst gross social, racial, and economic inequality. The 1% made their fortunes from the literal blood, sweat, and tears of human beings they believe are beneath them. Whether we agree or not with how it's expressed, people have the right to react to karma visiting the rich in any way they choose.
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Show threadGuerillaGrueJun 22, 2023

@eosfpodcast I struggle to accept or embrace the idea that the answer to a lack of compassion and empathy is to deny our own.

You're right about all of those things, and that we should see more compassion and empathy for them. That we don't is a travesty that we need to correct.

I really hate that the world treats empathy, compassion, the right to life, as some limited resource that we have to hoard and deny one another.

Sorry I can't express this more thoughtfully tonight.

Show threadRod FaulknerJun 22, 2023
@GuerillaGrue I understand your position. For me, especially given my lived experience as an American living in a Black body, so much needless, pain, suffering and death is directly due to the arrogance, callousness, and limitless greed of the rich. My compassion is reserved for the oppressed, marginalized, and powerless. As for how others choose to react to the rich experiencing tragedy by their own hands, I will not judge. I will say, if the humanity of the rich were called into question more often. If they were admonished more often to "take the high road and be better people." Maybe the world would not be as awful for so many.
Show threadGuerillaGrueJun 22, 2023

@eosfpodcast

I grew up as a transperson in a deeply conservative state. While I was lucky enough not not have racial injustice heaped on top of that in my case (and yes, I 100 percent recognize that luck,) I still can't but hope that we can continue to push toward a world where compassion and care doesn't have to be metered out.

There is a point to be made for justice and equality coming in many forms, even painful ones. I'm just seeing way too many people right now luxuriating in that pain.

Show threadRod FaulknerJun 22, 2023
@GuerillaGrue If the 1% collectively exhibited compassion, grace, and humanity towards others not in their same tax bracket, I’m certain people wouldn’t be inclined to luxuriate in their pain and misfortune. Cause and effect is at play, here.
Show threadTody MotmotJun 22, 2023

@eosfpodcast @GuerillaGrue

Yeah I'm feeling all of this. Sadness and compassion that the search is becoming futile, also furious that the media pushed aside the struggles and reality of millions to endlessly prattle on about meaningless details.

The message was loud and clear. We're supposed to be so sick with worry for billionaires that we ignore problems that are harming us now, and could keep harming us for generations if we don't get them fixed.

Show threadB.I.L.L. the AlienJun 22, 2023

@eosfpodcast

Fortunately for us, being rich doesn't necessarily mean being smart. 💀