• shneancy@lemmy.world
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    3 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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      3 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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        16 hours 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.”

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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