Are Rats are More Empathetic than Republicans?

[Julia52421]

It is sickening the people are becoming more and more lacking in empathy it is a very bad sign and will not bring about a future that anyone wants no matter their politics etc.This has to change, if it does not we are all doomed.

[Julia52421]

Wow scientists needed to do a study to understand that rats just like other animals feel empathy duh!

[thegoodsandwich]

Fact: Elephants are afraid of rodents and their beliefs.

[krumelguineapig]

The animals in the video are mice, not rats. (I understand that's not the point of the video). I love rats. But I'm sure that even mice would make better politicians than those people!

[truthout911]

ProgressaCunt Thom looks lkike a RAT

[ElComanchero]

How can someone yell "yeah" to other people's death or "boo" to a gay soldier? I just can't understand how a country, who claims that it's the most powerful and valiant in the world, has no courage or strenght to accept differency or take care of other people.

It's a shame. Proud greetings from Finland.

[ArmoredFelix]

@ElComanchero As your country is over run by the muslim hordes. Yeah get a clue you eurofag sissy.

[mzm153]

@ArmoredFelix Do you realize Taliban and Al-Qaeda think just the same you do? The only difference is that they call themselves Muslims while you call yourself a Christian.

[ArmoredFelix]

@mzm153 I'm not a Christian. I am a proud agnostic of the first order. I don't care about religious beliefs or what some old man in some messed up country says. I do care about what's fair and right. I care about my race and my ethnicity being destroyed by outside forces. I care about other races and ethnicities being destroyed by my governments. I want everyone to leave everyone the hell alone. So take your assumptions elsewhere.

[mzm153]

@ArmoredFelix Sorry about the assumption about your religious belief, but I can't believe that after having whole nations and people wiped out in the Americas, enslaved in Africa, exploited in Asia by certain European Countries and you still accuse immigrants of genocide????? Please.

[ArmoredFelix]

@mzm153 In Japan when you immigrate, and they allow VERY few immigrants. When you become an immigrant you suddenly get human rights. That is how it should be everywhere. When every white country and only white countries are told to open their borders, it's not diversity, it's genocide. Black countries for blacks, Asian countries for Asians, White countries for everyone.

[mzm153]

@ArmoredFelix Whites suffering from genocide??? Please. LOL

[ArmoredFelix]

@mzm153 Either figure out what's being said or continue on in your ignorance.

[mzm153]

@ArmoredFelix I was going to say the same thing to you.

[ArmoredFelix]

@mzm153 Well then perhaps we're both seeing past each other. Not a big deal. I'll continue on in my ways and you continue on in your ways. I'm not trying to change your mind at all. I'm just expressing my opinion.

[TripleSpeak]

Yes, & they're apparently more intelligent than Thom (w/his silly football team mentality)

[zebraluna]

BS The repulicans have always been about fleecing Americans.

[n1nj45p00n]

WOW!!! I thought the russian news was supposed to be un-bias!! holy shit! This reporter needs to look up some facts. Republicans aren't against HELPING people; they're against ROBBING hard-working Americans.

[mov88]

@n1nj45p00n That's adorable - but it only makes sense if you're stupid enough to fall for the old "anyone who doesn't make enough money to get by isn't working hard enough" ploy. And yes, Republicans are against helping people - hence their defunding of programs that, you know, helped people ("But they weren't helping people who matter - you know, the people with the money" says the Republican.) But thank you for providing a fine example of what non-empathetic people say.

[mov88]

@n1nj45p00n - And, really, you might want to educate yourself a bit before telling others to "look up some facts." The fact that you consider taxes and aiding the poor to be "robbing hard-working Americans" says so much about you, and none of it good. The fact that you don't want to face is that many of those who require aid are just as hard of workers as you or anyone else with money - they just haven't been fortunate enough to become rich.

[mov88]

@n1nj45p00n You're on the wrong side here, buddy - you're on the side of the powerful against the powerless.

[mov88]

@n1nj45p00n On a side note, I find your comment about the Russian news hilarious - as if there were some rumor going around that the Russian media was supposed to "un-bias" or that someone as self-centered and insular as you would actually have heard anything about the supposed objectivity of Russian news programs in the first place.

[n1nj45p00n]

@mov88

everything the government provides in the name of helping people, they need to first steal from someone else. That's how taxes work. Instead of barfing idiotic liberal rhetoric all over a response to my comment, you might want to learn some basic things before trying to be the superman of youtube.

[TheCircle000]

One of my friends once called the Republicans rats. How offensive to rats!

[44prot]

Because Hollywood educates the majority of society, the common perception of a "Psycopath", always is that of a serial killer,insane person,mad man, and such.When

in fact most of the politicians and very high corporate business people,have high scores in psycopathic traits and characteristics.One in a hundred people are psycopaths.If you haven't known or realized when you have had a brush with one,close up and personal,be grateful.BTW, even some reptiles have more

empathy than psycopaths

[WikeddTung]

love this analogy (bad title btw).

it blows the mind to consider how many otherwise normal (or maybe not) people are so desperate for a change they're ready to vote for ron paul. the man is atilla the fucking hun- ready to bring on the dark ages; he's a trojan horse.

history teaches us that whenever a nation takes an alarming lurch to the right (politically) you can expect VERY hard times for the majority of the population.

[Neroscot]

I'm still laughing; but mice can be better !

[ANTIDALLARD]

Love ya Thom . Stay strong

[rriverstone1]

"Emotional contagion?" They found a way to pathologize empathy? sad

[omegapoint777]

HURRRRRR LET'S JUST FUCKING SPEND AS MUCH MONEY AS WE WANT. DEBT IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT IT DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL.

[chriskoob]

rats will also attack each other if they've been forced to share the same space for far too long, so lets not make them saints just yet

[ArmoredFelix]

Jews are reptiles. That's why they don't have empathy.

[StunnedByStupidity]

@ArmoredFelix BIGOT

[ArmoredFelix]

@StunnedByStupidity No I'm not. I just hate Jews.

[StunnedByStupidity]

@ArmoredFelix Read some books on human biology - you despicable human...

[ArmoredFelix]

@StunnedByStupidity I am fully aware that Jews are reptilian in nature. You are simply full of ad hominem attacks. Name call instead of engage in the argument. You think I am the one that should read books eh? You just spew forth these epithets and don't even try to argue the points.

[StunnedByStupidity]

@ArmoredFelix Read those first 2 sentences again then slap yourself upside your head then GET TO THE FUCKING LIBRARY you ignorant bigoted fool...

[ArmoredFelix]

@StunnedByStupidity You truly are attached to your preconceptions aren't you?

[StunnedByStupidity]

@ArmoredFelix Look YOU PIG IGNORANT FUCKING SCUM - go get PEER REVIEWED (Scientific evidence) that shows that a) Jews exist as a separate 'race' and b) they lack empathy as a group. You are a fucking moron buying into David Icke's INSANE world view GET HELP you Nazi...

[ArmoredFelix]

@StunnedByStupidity Are you mad? Judaism is an ethnicity. Nice strawman. Godwin again. You know they are reptilians. You just don't like the truth coming out.

[StunnedByStupidity]

@ArmoredFelix SO Jews are an ethnicity WITH THE SAME BIOLOGY AS ALL THE REST OF HUMANITY - yet on planet insane NAZI (its an APPROPRIATE label - Godwin says NOTHING about the appropriateness you fucking lunatic) they lack empathy and can be picked out as a group? Look kid GET FUCKING HELP YOU ARE DEEPLY DISTURBED...

[ArmoredFelix]

@StunnedByStupidity Man you really are mad. Random capitalization, ad hominems, and just a lack of coherence entirely. You know they are reptiles. Almost 2012 and you still cling to that canard that Jews aren't reptiles. My goodness, you need help.

[ArmoredFelix]

@StunnedByStupidity You're not addressing the point. Of course human biology is different than Jewish biology. Reptiles are different than mammals. I'm not sure what point you were trying to make with this.

[baalisgod666]

A republican in the same situation would leave the other in the trap and eat all it's food, then brag that it was superior because the other had no food and was still trapped.

It would let the other out later, to have it's side of the cage cleaned by the other.

[threefiveZ]

Rats don't murder each other. They don't wage war. Humans are not rats. We are much more violent than rats are.

[Stevie68000]

President Ron Paul will never send Americans to fight & die for Israel & Jew

Vote Ron Paul !

[StunnedByStupidity]

You can't deny it any more right wingers are rotten people...

[OpenTheTrollGate]

@StunnedByStupidity REDS SHOULD BE DEPORTED TO BEST KOREA

[StunnedByStupidity]

@OpenTheTrollGate Oh dear that comment marks you as STUNNINGLY illeduacated and moronic. Go look on you tube for:

'Thom Hartmann: 92% of Americans are SOCIALISTS!' - boy there are gona bee few people left in the US. And BTW you self hatred is contemptible...

[omegapoint777]

@StunnedByStupidity

Enjoy being put in a FEMA camp nigger.

[StunnedByStupidity]

@omegapoint777 WTF? Oh dear an Alex Jones fan - you have my deepest sympathy...

[OpenTheTrollGate]

RON PAUL 2012

[StunnedByStupidity]

@OpenTheTrollGate A vote for Paul is a vote for FASCISM. Buts what's even worse in the context of this video marks you as a PSYCHOPATH - nice...

[baalisgod666]

@StunnedByStupidity better vote for gingrich then. He isn't a fascist. WRONG.

[StunnedByStupidity]

@baalisgod666 No newt is a PSYCHOPATH...

[baalisgod666]

@StunnedByStupidity can't he be both?

[omegapoint777]

@StunnedByStupidity

Shut the fuck up you mentally ill nigger.

[StunnedByStupidity]

@omegapoint777 Come back when you reach the mental age of 5...

[kwb70652]

I was going to just "bahahahaha" at this question and clip, but then while listening to all the comments I've heard before back to back next to the empathetic rat story, I have to say I'm just sickened by the callousness of the current Republican talking points and agenda.

[omegapoint777]

@kwb70652

You are braindead.

[UNIZEN]

"rats arent governed by the IMF.,which i guess technically makes them the superior species on this planet....i guess when the aliens come looking for our leader.,we'll take them to the sewers and homeless cities;imagine when they study the cockroaches..."

[BannedUfos]

Politicians operate at the reptilian brain level so yes, rats have more empathy than them.