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[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago

"Grow up and accept that you don't don't matter." Seems to be a concerningly common mantra these days.

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

It's typical of cishet WASP men (though a lot of WASPs in general) who are isolated from the violence caused by the system. They cannot imagine a world where they are on the receiving end of police brutality or an Amerikkkan military attack. They never have to watch what they say or think about where they go. Everyone actually affected by politics becomes an abstraction or hypothetical.

tl;dr--

(although it's not really tl;dr because leftist memes lol)

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago

The important thing is to continue the thought. Yeah in an individual level most of us don't matter but that should be freeing, not something we allow to damn us to a life unfulfilled.

In a year nobody is gonna remember you skipped the meeting to go skiing. But you'll remember the feeling. Live your life, and remember not to overestimate your effect on and obligation to the world around you.

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think it's better to have political agency rather than let demons dictate everything. You can Live, Laugh, Love all you like, but don't use that as a basis for thinly veiled nihilism.

[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

Depressing and disempowering, is how I'd put that. Not freeing. Accepting the cage isn't freedom to me.

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

I see it more as knowing what I have control over, and accepting that, and using it to my advantage. I understand your view as well though, agree to disagree?

[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sure thing, but I think I can see where you're coming from when you put it like that. I guess we're all trying to make the best of a bad situation in our own ways. I still don't completely agree with you, but I get it.

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

knowing what I have control over,

shit i don't even have control over my own body and barely control what i eat

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

That's not too far removed from "no lives matter."

I'm not sure that's a road we really want to be headed down, even if we appear to be a good ways down that road already.

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