• @[email protected]
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    1467 days ago

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

    • RaivoKulli
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      577 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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        13 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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        56 days ago

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

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        34 days ago

        “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.”

        • RaivoKulli
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          24 days ago

          The trauma of hearing some weak ass reason of having to eat my peas? Lol

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      196 days ago

      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