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Every time I read a complaint about having to do the dishes or working a dumb job, I like to imagine the complainer making their case to the kids who work 16 hour days to make their clothes.

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[–] lmmarsano@group.lt 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

they mad
lol, you make lemmy angry with delicious ragebait. that beehive is worth striking. 🍿

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Considering that is that capitalistic hellhole to cause you to walk piles of corpses. Yeah.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Are you

aware

that you are spending energy complaining about the tone of online discourse

when others have it worse?

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[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 24 points 1 day ago

You're allowed to be critical of capitalism even if you dont have it worse than everyone else on planet earth. Shocking I know.

This is huge "hmmm, yet you participate in society" energy and is exactly the kind of thing the owning class want you to think like, probably has been paid for and spread by and for capital

You absolute fucking pillock

[–] emerald@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Yet you benefit from living in the imperial core. Curious!" 'We should improve society somewhat' 'Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent'

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

why is it always a piefed.ca account??

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Just because someone has it worse doesn't mean you don't have it bad.

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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

People have worse than you therefore you shouldn't challenge the systems that made it so instead of just rolling over and complying, Dog.

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[–] Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe 10 points 1 day ago

WTF is this shite

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Would you prefer they not complain at all and ignore others’ problems?

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[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I end up explaining this a lot:

Just because something 'more X' exists, it does not mean things that are 'less X' cease to exist. If someone else has been murdered somewhere in the world, it doesn't mean non-consentual gropings are to be ignored. If your older sibling was given three slices of pizza, it does not mean you will starve with your two slices. The fact that we have a concept of a googleplex as a number does not mean the number one is meaningless.

Whether something is good or bad, it remains good or bad, regardless of its scale.

And complaining about things, though annoying, is the best form of feedback we can hope for. If something is wrong, no feedback leads to the continuation of the thing being wrong. If people complain, something can be done to fix the issue. If people take direct action to end the problem, that's usually violence.

By diminishing people's ability to complain, you are advocating for either ignorance of harm or violence.

[–] lmmarsano@group.lt 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

By diminishing people’s ability to complain

No one's diminishing. A critique of dumb complaints is also a complaint. Are you diminishing their ability to complain? Welcome to complaining.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Diminishing is, I admit, a rough word choice. I actually tried thinking of something else but couldn't quite find the right word. It's... Perhaps denormalizing? Demoralizing? Diminutizing? Denaturing? I'm still trying but can't quite land it.

Perhaps I can find a way to talk you around the perimeter and you can get an idea what I mean. Complaining serves a purpose in making a problem known so that it can be addressed. Complaining about others complaining doesn't directly diminish their ability to complain in that they haven't been physically or coercively stopped from complaining, but it does delegitimate their complaints, which is not inherently bad (some complaints are dumb) but when the delegitimation is carried out based on some broad class like ethnicity/nationality/etc. rather than the legitimacy of the particular complaint, that reads like prejudice, of which I'm generally not in favor.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Unfortunately we all live on the same planet being turned into a hellhole by capitalists, some just have more corpse piles to deal with than others

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[–] daannii@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Life isn't a pissing contest.

There will always be someone with it worse.

Oh you were molested as a kid. Well this other person was gang raped as a kid.

Oh you were gang raped. Just once as a kid.

Well this other person was trafficked and raped for years.

Oh you were trafficked and raped for 5 years.

Well this other person was also trafficked and raped for 10 years and also beaten every day.

See how that "what about" b.s is not helpful. ?

Injustices are not dismissed because something worse happened to someone else.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Did it cross your mind that the reason so many people have to walk by piles of corpses is because of capitalism. Because war and exploitation is profitable to those in power.

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