• shneancy@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    the good old “how dare you desire for your life to be better when there’s people who’s lives are worse!”

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      7 days ago

      The go-to “you aren’t allowed to complain” that I heard was “well there are children starving in Africa”

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        3 days ago

        Same in the 80s. We made pretty songs like “We are the world” and sent fucktons of rice to Africa that rot because dictators wanted to keep it. Fun times.

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        “indeed there are, mother. that’s why i won’t eat this food and will instead put it in an insulated box and ship it to them, so they can enjoy it.”

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        There was a liberating moment when I learned that just feeling awful was not an effective way to stop wars.

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      If I hear that, I show the stupidity by doing the opposite:

      How can you be happy? There are people getting married today, they are much happier!

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      Yeah yeah, not all who marry are happy, you get the point