Yeah it just helps OTHER people, so what's the point? Conservatism in a nutshell.

[kpete]

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Rep. Tom Rice said in an interview that he has no regrets about not wearing a mask on the House floor.

“My understanding is that a mask doesn’t really protect you as much as it protects other people. I don’t think it would have made much of a difference."

Link to tweet

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/15/coronavirus-rep-tom-rice-and-his-family-test-positive-covid-19/3191723001/

[highplainsdem]

1. I've heard that argument from MAGAts I know. Their only concern is their own health. The concept

of social responsibility is completely alien to them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Frequently the concept of personal responsibility is also alien to them

... as they blame criminality or lapses in judgement on other people or drinking or the dog or anything/anybody but themselves.

[luvtheGWN]

20. Well, isn't that why the US doesn't have universal healthcare?

In a nutshell.

[area51]

32. This, plus the flat-out bribing of our politicians by big pharma & big insurance.

Wearing a mask may help control a 2nd wave of coronavirus.

[live love laugh]

34. Is that the drivel their cult leaders are feeding them now?

[Arkansas Granny]

2. That goes right along with "I've got mine, go get your own".

[alterfurz]

8. for many conservatives, it's even more like "I got mine...

...fuck you."

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. Wow! And that was AFTER he was infected too!

[GoCubsGo]

5. I wonder if he'll be singing that tune time down the road, when he

has a heart attack or stroke, or Gawd knows what from that "mild" case he had. Typical self-centered, right-wing asshole. Too stupid and short-sighted to understand that we don't understand this disease, or all the consequences of being afflicted with it. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on.

[The Magistrate]

6. Beautifully Put, Sir

It is indeed the central tenet of that peculiar faith.

[treestar]

7. They have no concept of a social existence

One of them actually asserted to me: there is no such thing as society.

That doesn't stop them from wanting to impose their rules on others though. Funny that.

[JHB]

10. That's a Maggie Thatcher line, though even there they forget what came after that line

"They are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours."
– in an interview in Women's Own in 1987

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-quotes


Women's Own is a weekly women's magazine in the UK.
https://www.womansown.co.uk/

[treestar]

31. Great, thank you very much

Some great ammunition for the next rightie who tries that one!

[spanone]

9. republicans have taught me one thing..... that you can be as dumb as a pile of dog shit.....

and be a member of congress.

[liberalla]

11. Gawd! I am so fuking sick of these people!

. . .

[Fla Dem]

12. Pretty much sums up the Republican Party's ideology.

[Mike 03]

27. It does, completely.

Republicans are trying to amass as much money and power as possible before society breaks down from global warming (which they secretly believe in but don't want others to believe in) and civil unrest. They think they can "ride it out" while the rest of the world destroys itself.

[blakstoneranger]

13. ARE THEY ALL JUST PLAIN STUPID?

Ok, if I wear a mask, it helps to protect others, me not so much. But if you wear a mask, it protects me, you not so much. This means that if I don't wear a mask, I get the pleasure of making other people sick. And if everybody else followed my lead, then everybody stands the chance of getting sick! The problem with this has to do with one word: LEADERSHIP!! THERE ISN'T ANY, WE'RE BEING LED BY A BUNCH OF IDIOTS WHO ENJOY PANDERING TO FOXNEWS AND CONSERVATIVE TALK RADIO!!

Did you read the article about the Michigan republicans tearing up their mail in ballots in support of trump? I guess they'd rather stand in long lines and wait to cast their stupid vote as opposed to a mail in.

[Roland99]

14. Epitome of one of my favorite sayings...

A conservative says, "It hasn't happened to me, so I don't care." A liberal says, "It shouldn't happen to anyone, that's why I care."

[keithbvadu2]

15. No regrets that he brought it home to his family or could have passed it on to others.

No regrets that he brought it home to his family or could have passed it on to others.

Much like that PA republican who knowingly exposed others to his own infection.

[BigmanPigman]

16. It's always been that way with the GOP.

Their motto is "What's best for ME and only me, fuck everyone else".

[Wounded Bear]

17. Mr Galbraith knew...

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

[Hotler]

26. We think alike. nt

[moose65]

18. Geez Louise

If there is one quality that all conservatives possess, it is complete and total lack of empathy. They cannot put themselves in someone else's shoes for one fucking second. It drives me up the wall.

Every conservative that I know, at one point or another, has espoused the same view as Mr. Rice. They DO care about their own families, but that's generally where it ends.

Didn't Jesus say something about loving your neighbors?!?!?

[aeromanKC]

21. He's going to be in for a big surprise when he gets to the Jesus parts of the Bible

[czarjak]

19. Screw anybody who isn't me?

[mwb970]

22. I had one conservative come right out with it in a comment section.

He said "NOBODY CARES OR GRIEVES ABOUT ANYONE THEY DON'T KNOW!"

Again, conservatism in a nutshell. They don't even believe that anyone is empathetic for others, just because they aren't. And these are "Christians"! The things they say are the exact opposite of the message of their supposed Lord and Savior.

How can this be anything but mental illness?

[RhodeIslandOne]

23. But a collection of cells MUST BE PROTECTED!!!

"Pro-life" my ass.

[Arkansas Granny]

24. Kind of like Rand Paul who claims that since he had COVID19, he is immune and doesn't need a mask.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

29. But he doesn't even know that for sure

[Arkansas Granny]

30. No, I don't think that has been established.

[Hotler]

25. Selfishness...................

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a moral justification for selfishness." JK Galbraith

[Proud Liberal Dem]

28. And how many people did he possibly expose after he was infected

when not wearing a mask?

[Skittles]

33. he does not even care about his own family

[Brainfodder]

35. Looks like a younger Moscow Mitch without glasses?

So yeah, please wear a mask!