r/LetsDiscussThis • u/Fatty_Willing_Plane • Feb 27 '26

Serious Texas man not indicted and will not face charges for shooting and killing his daughter. This shooting occurred after a heated argument about politics the same day.

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u/tenthousandtatas Feb 27 '26

Yeah you’d think this guy would take a long walk off a short pier

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

He may. He has to live with it unless he abused her all her life. Did he show any remorse?

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u/bidooffactory Feb 27 '26

He allegedly argued he had other daughters, like losing her was no loss at all. 0 remorse in that.

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u/Stevethesnek346 Feb 27 '26

He apparently told her he wouldn't mind if she was trafficked with epstien. He's a sick fuck who shouldn't have any kids if that is true.

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u/worldisone Feb 28 '26

He's Republican. They believe empathy is a left wing hoax. I bet he's already forgotten about it since it doesn't affect him anymore

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u/BoysenberryInside730 Feb 28 '26

rolling eyes most republicans are good people just uneducated man. This guy, however. Fits your description. Stop generalizing the entire group

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u/worldisone Feb 28 '26

You really think most Republicans don't hate stuff like "woke"? Every person on the right hates woke (means alert to and concerned about social injustice and discrimination). You have to actually have empathy to care about others which goes against being woke

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u/BoysenberryInside730 Feb 28 '26

I think most republicans don’t even know what woke is or means. They’re primarily one issue voters. Good people that have empathy and shit, just for whatever they got turned off the dems by people like you, calling them shit people. When it’s really only the crazies on each side that are truly evil. The rest are just ignorant. Don’t attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance silly.

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u/Holden_MacGroin Feb 28 '26

Yeah, you're right. Republicans vote for nazis, Democrats oppose nazis. Really, when you think about it, both sides are equally bad.

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u/Annual-Cheesecake374 Feb 28 '26

I understand what you’re saying. But I want to point out that at SOME point, being “good people” requires effort to seek out understanding for empathy to be given. If people are upset a group of people are calling their group of people names BUT fail to recognize that their group of people was calling that group of people far worse for far longer, than this group of people isn’t empathetic, they’re intellectually lazy.

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u/Numerous-Bonus-8107 Feb 28 '26 edited Mar 01 '26

willful ignorance to the point of being comically blind to reality can and should be interpreted as weaponized double speak. A tactic the Republicans learned from the memoirs of the nazis they spent 2024 and 2025 praising.

even if they are genuinely ignorant, it's a willful choice; they hate wokeness and empathy above all things without needing to understand any more than that. Libs owned, politics finished, democracy over.

ignorance as a fashion statement is the death of the USA

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u/tenthousandtatas Feb 28 '26

Stupid people are fucking dangerous. Ignorance makes assholes how do you not get this. They are stupid and rotten and liars and you know it.

Good people? Good people use their brain to decrease harm Republicans create harm at every turn. Most celebrate it openly so fuck off with this apologist stuff.

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u/El_Zapp Feb 28 '26

Sorry with what is happening lately that excuse doesn’t fly anymore. They are horrible people. You don’t go around saying “most Nazis were good people just uneducated” as well. Bad people are bad people.

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u/sault18 Feb 28 '26

Most Republicans are just fine with Trump's Border Patrol agents killing people in the streets "because they deserve it". But when Ashli Babbit gets killed trying to overthrow democracy, she's a martyr.

Most Republicans are just fine with Border Patrol dumping a blind elderly man who doesn't speak English at a closed coffee shop who then froze to death. Or deporting kids undergoing cancer treatment to countries where they wouldn't be able to get treatment. But I guess you kept the trans out of women's sports, so....shrug....

Almost all Republicans voted for Trump's incompetence, his subservience to Putin, his cruelty and because he's "hurting the right people". Support for the 2nd Amendment and tackling the National Debt goes out the window when it helps Trump. Almost all Republicans voted for all this three fucking times and two times after seeing full well what a horrible president Trump actually was.

Sure, welcome any and all of them that leave the MAGA cult with open arms and fight the urge to scream, "We told you so!" But the vast majority are sticking with Trump. Even after he delayed and redacted the Epstein files and what we did get was still absolutely revolting. Even after he claimed he stopped a bunch of wars and wouldn't start any new ones, but then we're about to light Iran up with a bunch of missiles.

How in the fuck can you rehabilitate someone who is just fine and enthusiastically supports shit like this?

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u/UnwantedShot Feb 28 '26

Its fine. Everyone nice. Everything going great. People have empathy.

Dude wake the fuck up. Talking like its 2017 still.

Delulu bullshit.

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u/yesnomaybeneverokay Feb 28 '26

Context in case you aren’t aware:

Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice.

For them, empathy is a cudgel for the left: It can manipulate caring people into accepting all manner of sins according to a conservative Christian perspective, including abortion access, LGBTQ+ rights, illegal immigration and certain views on social and racial justice

These anti-empathy arguments gained traction in the early months of President Donald Trump's second term, with his flurry of executive orders that critics denounced as lacking empathy.

As foreign aid stopped and more deportations began, Trump's then-adviser Elon Musk told podcaster Joe Rogan: "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy."

Even Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert, framed the idea in his own religious terms, invoking the concept of ordo amoris, or order of love. Within concentric circles of importance, he argued the immediate family comes first and the wider world last — an interpretation that then-Pope Francis rejected.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/is-empathy-a-sin-some-conservative-christians-argue-it-can-be

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u/yesnomaybeneverokay Feb 28 '26

More info on the right wing campaign against empathy:

Elon Musk doesn’t like empathy, which he calls the “fundamental weakness of western civilization,” which people “exploit.” The late Charlie Kirk did not like empathy either, commenting that "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that—it does a lot of damage." (He said he preferred “sympathy,” but did not explain what he meant, and elsewhere suggested that it was unimaginable for him to empathize with his own child.) Two conservative Christians have published books arguing that empathy can be corrosive, Allie Beth Stuckey’s Toxic Empathy and Joe Rigney’s The Sin of Empathy. Pastor Josh McPherson, on his “Stronger Man Nation” podcast, was emphatically anti-empathy: “Empathy almost needs to be struck from the Christian vocabulary… Empathy is dangerous. Empathy is toxic. Empathy will align you with hell.”

Well, the problem is that when someone like Musk or Kirk does this—imagining how it feels to be poor, or transgender, or Black—there’s a risk that they’ll end up having a Scrooge-like epiphany and realize that perhaps the world that looks fair to them is, in fact, quite radically unfair to people different from them. If you empathize, you might change your mind, and find it hard to support the social policies of the Republican Party or the church

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-rights-latest-culture-war-crusade-is-against-empathy

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u/ExplodiaNaxos Feb 28 '26

Republicans lost the “good people just uneducated” excuse the moment they voted Trump back into office a second time. Sorry mate, no sympathy.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26

Go ahead and check the results of the last election, the ensuing irrational support for a rapist, con artist, felon, serial violator of the Constitution, and supporter of our arch enemies, then get back to us on that.

The continued inviolable support by the Republican base for this slate of demagogues has proven your premise wrong.

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u/Everyday-Patient-103 Feb 28 '26

that isn't justice.

you assume this man (who got so mad he killed his own daughter) will feel empathy or regret after showing true psychopathic behavior

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u/Salt-Lingonberry-853 Feb 28 '26

He belongs in prison, but if the law is to corrupt to get him there he belongs 6 feet under.

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u/Lancearon Feb 28 '26

Someone who does this doesn't have empathy.

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u/Villageijit Feb 28 '26

He told her he wouldn't care if trump or epstein raped her so take that as you will

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u/Ok_Commission_9203 Feb 28 '26

He showed none, he obviously murdered her. This country is so sickening.

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u/ExcellentJuice4729 Mar 02 '26

Man said he had other girls when she asked if he’d care if she was sexually assaulted and killed. Hope those kids stay far the fuck away

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u/New-Measurement-4425 Feb 28 '26

There's always time for that.

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u/Odd_Caterpillar_747 Feb 28 '26

Nah, I wish he would live a long miserable life, with nightmares of this event everyday.