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Except nobody is punishing you? Sorry if I don't have fucks to give about you when the president YOU (not us) elected is fucking MY country and half of the world with tariffs and shit and you get to suffer the consequences of it.
You are not suffering a punishment, you are suffering consequences of your elections. The rest of the world is suffering a punishment because of what you elected.
I'm not claiming the US is being punished: that was a metaphor.
My point was critiquing folks who are gleefully reveling in the suffering of folks in the USA because of the actions of despots. It's easy to do when it's the USA, but when applying the same reasoning to other regions, it's more obviously shitty behavior. I have empathy for Persians suffering under the Iranian regime. I have empathy for folks living in El Salvador dealing with an autocrat abusing power. I have empathy for the kids growing up in Mississippi. I even have some amount of empathy for the redneck down the street who is too fucking stupid to understand that their Republican "leaders" are taking advantage of them. Just like despots around the world. Plenty of innocent enough folks still live in terrible regimes, and IMHO we shouldn't be happy about those folks suffering because a majority of their neighbors are assholes. We should...you know...help those minorities? Not just paint them with a broad brush and bask in their suffering?
TLDR I can have contempt and empathy at the same time, and I'm not going to cheer for the suffering of decent folks who just happen to have been born into a shitty regime, or who've had one foisted on them.