• @Allonzee
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    1 month ago

    This guy was a gleefully inhuman monster who hurt people for fun decades before he was even President.

    Just as with Ronald Reagan, some people just do so much harm to others unrepentantly for fun and profit, that I can very much revel in their pain/decline/confusion and sleep like a baby.

    I don’t subscribe to the pure model of “treat others as you would have them treat you.” Humans abuse that and it makes you a mark.

    My version is “In a vacuum, be kind, but once someone shows you who they are, treat others how they treat others.”

    • @TrueStoryBob
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      41 month ago

      Also, when someone shows you who they truly are, believe them the first time. I’ve become a person for whom respect is not earned, it is only ever lost. Everyone I know and meet, I try to respect the same as I would any other person… but, once you’ve lost that respect, I find it truly hard to give the benefit of the doubt and restore that faith.

      • @20hzservers
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        41 month ago

        You comment made me think this, give respect freely but, take it back permanently.