When Nazi alleged war criminals were held in Nuremburg, Captain G. Gilbert was assigned to the prison to serve as their psychologist. He administered Rorschach and IQ tests, and spoke with them at length. He came to the following conclusion:

“In my work with the defendants I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

Who would have thought? (Well, obviously everyone that does not fall into the MAGA cult category.)

This seems really obvious to me. Im glad there are studies that look into these things though

Trump supporters report ...

I expect they're not self-reporting. That would require self-awareness.

The people who are into performative cruelty are... callous? Yeah, that tracks.

Obvious deemed obvious.

I remember reading about brain scans being able to predict your political leanings. I wonder how this would play into it

Would be interesting to see a study looking at the overlap between political support and developmental lead poisoning.

Like, it’s well documented that, at least in the US, there was a catastrophic amount of developmental lead poisoning among the population cohorts that were born between the introduction of leaded gasoline and the phasing out of it.

So do the Luigi's of the world, as well as Firefighters, Paramedics, Doctors, and honestly, the upper-class.

Like we keep telling the DNC, the inability to do what needs to be done is not a flex.

Liberals should stop patting themselves and eachother on the back for being harmless-at-best.