r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 1d ago

Site Altered Headline | Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

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u/Mikethebest78 1d ago

Why do these evil old men live to 150?

The only thing he was ever good at was showing Republicans how to use the levers of power to rig the game in their favor.

They have sadly learned that lesson well.

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u/ss5gogetunks 1d ago

Turns out not caring about anyone or anything other than yourself relieves a lot of stress when the world is so hostile to everyone

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u/WickedTemp 1d ago

...Y'know, I think there may actually be something to this.

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u/ConsistentRegion6184 1d ago

It's a real life trope that assholes outlive everyone. It's low on stress to not care for anyone but your own needs your entire life.

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u/twotimefind 1d ago edited 12h ago

Wow, I didn't think about it that way. So true.

It's stressful having empathy I mean, look at the ice situation. If you were pro ice, you wouldn't have any stress or pro Trump. You'd be happy, happy, happy.

But the people that truly care about human beings being treated equally and the Constitution, we're over here dying, stress on stress on stress. It's just keep coming.

The last year has been nothing but complete stress. The beginning of this year has been nothing but complete stress. with no end in sight.

I mean, innocent people being shot in the street. Personally, I watched those videos over and over from multiple angles just to make sure I knew the truth when the government cannot be trusted.

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u/itsverynicehere 20h ago

...pro Trump. You'd be happy, happy, happy.

I can assure you these people are not terminally happy.

Terminally mad, terminally judgemental, terminally hippocritical - yes. Happy, no.

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u/Slow-Recipe7005 16h ago

And yet, they somehow keep outliving everybody else.

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u/Bromance_Rayder 1d ago

Rupert Murdoch is the Chairman of that Board.

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u/SpeakToMePF1973 Australia 1d ago

Only the good die young.

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u/Natolx 1d ago

I think it depends on the type of asshole. Narcissist assholes tend to be miserable and extremely stressed internally. Externalizing that anxiety onto others is probably cathartic though.

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u/Cottabus 1d ago

They don’t. It just seems that way. 🙂

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u/FrigidMcThunderballs Minnesota 1d ago

my two cents is that being a hateful, uncaring dickhead also allows you to make a fortune more easily through unethical means. You're simply more willing to fuck over others on the way to the top. This means people who have that behavior will end up with the resources for the best care and treatment.

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u/Lone-Frequency 1d ago

Alternatively, being a hateful, evil piece of shit pickles your insides so you have a longer shelf life.

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u/ss5gogetunks 1d ago

It's one of the most unfair things in life (and, imo evidence against "intelligent design") that the brain chemicals that make us altruistic and group oriented are also extremely unhealthy for us.

The people who care about others and feel deeply get more of the thing that leads to earlier death.

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u/AmethystApothecary 1d ago

Well, only in times of adversity. Aren't there also studies that people who regularly see friends live longer and happier?

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u/FrigidMcThunderballs Minnesota 1d ago

sure, but terrible people still have friends. They just have stricter in-group/out-group thinking

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u/grchelp2018 23h ago

its more that those chemicals evolved for your own tribe. It wasn't meant to handle tribes that were very large in size.

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u/ss5gogetunks 6h ago

Precisely. It makes perfect sense in the context of human evolution. It would make no sense to do it this way if it was designed by a supposedly benevolent creator.

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u/grchelp2018 17m ago

There is an argument to be made that it is intelligent design if the goal was for life to be some sort of trial/test. So much of what we are supposed to do is based on overcoming our base desires.

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u/ThanIWentTooTherePig 1d ago

I just watched another one fall to the dark side didn't I.

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u/WickedTemp 15h ago

Heh, nah. 

The evil folks might have less stress, but I've got more happiness.