Although this was written some 2500 years ago it could very well apply to today's Trumpers.

[thucythucy]

It's by the Greek poet Theognis, as translated by Dan Beachy-Quick:

“It’s idiotic: doing kind things for craven people—
Like sowing seed in the salt gray sea—
You don’t reap on open water any tall crop—
You do good, and get not a grain,
Even of salt, in return.”

I thought of this after reading yet another piece about how we must bend over backwards to understand and empathize with the worst of Trump's people.

[Orrex]

1. Preach on, friend!

I've been saying this for years. They scorn our outreach, they deride our empathy, and they mock our attempts to understand them.

They are a cult of ignorant racist fuckheads worshiping an ignorant racist fuckhead.

Let those miserable fuckers reach out to us. Let them empathize with us. Let them try to understand us.


Until that day, every last one of them can go fuck themselves.

[coti]

2. Keep in mind that they might relate to this even stronger

as they see it like the social contract.

[Warpy]

3. I'll continue to be kind

Unlike seed corn, kindness doesn't cost anything.

Jackassery carries its own reward.

[struggle4progress]

4. +

[Beakybird]

8. +1. Kind people are just sowing those kind seeds everywhere.

[cutroot]

5. Do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.

Matthew 7:6

[GoneOffShore]

6. Stealin this and posting it on FB and maybe Twitter.

[greyl]

7. K and Fn R nt