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Cake day: November 12th, 2023

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  • I’m gonna be honest I don’t know what you’re even trying to say, let alone how it relates to my point. I’m talking about “life isn’t fair” usually being a thought terminating cliché and a poor replacement for questioning causes of unfairness. saying “life isn’t fair” in response to any criticism of the system is no more helpful than saying “it is what it is”, which is the quintessential thought terminating cliché.

    my point is life isn’t fair could be accurate regarding chronic illness for example, but it isn’t enough to explain the economic burden it brings on you. we might not have the means to prevent a chronic illness, but whatever medical intervention it requires should not be an economic problem for the person. healthcare must—and can—be free.


  • pyre@lemmy.worldtoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksAnon is jealous
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    life isn’t fair, but this isn’t life. it’s the system put in place by people. chalking it up to life not being fair is complicity.

    life isn’t fair that someone may be born with a lifelong disease, or they may get one later. can’t do anything about that. economic fairness is something we can change.

    BTW I never understood why she became popular, it wasn’t that interesting or funny… but I have nothing against her capitalizing on an opportunity. she was suddenly put in the spotlight but she hasn’t grifted her way there. doesn’t hurt anyone. good for her. my comment isn’t about her but meritocracy in general.










  • i know, I just wanted to remind people that being annoying or whatever isn’t his worst quality. he’s a very misogynistic guy, says shit about women that you wouldn’t expect to hear in this century, or maybe even the last, at least openly. but good for him, the country belongs to his kind now.





  • that’s not how it works. think how multiplayer games work. it doesn’t matter if a multiplayer game is good if no one’s playing. but if a game people have been playing starts to deteriorate, they usually stick to it because they have invested time and accrued some in game currency or rank and they don’t want to start over on a new game that may or may not be successful.




  • I didn’t say I invented it. I said I made it up. it’s not that wild of an analogy to be impossible to come up with it independently. i was thinking of grains and then remembered an old reddit post about putting skittles in an m&ms bowl.

    wow they probably stole that too, since it’s such a crazy original idea that no two people can think of it.

    again, “FBI crime stats but for men” is not a good critique because again, it’s not comparable to black people. unless you think the police unfairly favor immigrants, especially undocumented immigrants. women do get more lenient sentences but that wasn’t my argument.

    if you have any evidence that women commit as many and as serious crimes as men please share. or if you think men are historically oppressed and financially disadvantaged as context to their crime stats, I’d like to hear that.

    pointing at vague similarities to other arguments when they are nothing like each other won’t cut it.