It’s like they can’t help being assholes.

  • BlackSheep@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    I know this comment will sound really naive, and it’s not going to make a difference in the grand scheme of things. But, I’m seriously depressed and sad. I was part of the age of Aquarius, and I really did think we were going to make a difference. We tried, but nothing has changed. I just wish we could live in a world of “live and let live”. No violence, no wars, no annexations, no fascists. Kind of like Norway…

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      I feel exactly the same way as you. I didn’t have any plans to leave my country up until a year or two ago. While I’m glad I did leave, I’m also so extremely angry and upset at the failure of a country that caused me to leave. It also makes me sick to my stomach to think about what’s going to happen to the people I love

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      9 hours ago

      Take care of yourself. None of this is normal and thus you’re going to need more self care than normal. You are making a difference even just sharing the way this makes you feel. We’re all in this together and I can see you know that too.

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        9 hours ago

        Actually, I really don’t care about your religion or politics. I DO care that children are dying. I DO care that children are suffering and going hungry.

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      9 hours ago

      Have you ever seen a chicken hatch? It’s a messy and destructive process. Before that first peck, the chick inside the egg is all but invulnerable. As soon as it makes that first crack though, all bets are off. The shell can cut the chick killing it, it can drown in the remaining embryonic fluid in the egg if it can’t get out in time, and it is immediately set upon by hordes of bacteria and viruses that couldn’t get to it. However, as long as everything goes somewhat normally, 5 minutes late you have a cute fluffy chick.

      Humanity takes a bit longer to develop societally because so many bad habits have inertia. Your generation kept the ball rolling, and specifically set up the necessary destruction needed to get society to the point that you were at 55 years ago. The process started in the mid 1800s, and should finish, in the next couple to few decades, with either all of us dead, or whoever’s left uniting under a single banner of equality and prosperity for all.

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        7 hours ago

        History. It’s a messy and destructive process. Let me dilute this: Unfortunately, we haven’t learned from WWI, or WWII. Our grandfathers fought and died against fascism, and Hitler. And here we are—again. AGAIN. There are children starving, dying, and suffering in Gaza. We have lost our humanity.