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"Until you can empathize with someone who reads infowars..."

Absurdity defined.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002997 and marked it off-topic.

Empathize != agree with. That is a modern perversion of the term.

Be careful staring into the abyss.

I do not empathize with, nor do I agree with, people who wilfully wallow in paranoia and stupidity.

Does that clarify my position sufficiently?