• Blackbeard@lemmy.worldM
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    5 months ago

    I don’t disagree, but that’s a bit like a teenager telling their mother, “This meal is shit. I was hungry HOURS ago.” Can we not be happy things are changing NOW? Is that somehow not allowed?

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      5 months ago

      If you’re happy with being hungry for hours before being given anything to eat, then good for you I guess? We can do better. Being kept hungry and given crumbs isn’t healthy, it’s positively abusive.

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          5 months ago

          I’m not going to praise someone for doing something that should have and could have been done decades ago, no.

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            5 months ago

            Then why would anyone do anything good for you, ever? If you’re going to blame them for the fact that it wasn’t done before now, then shouldn’t they completely ignore what you want and move on to someone else?

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              5 months ago

              We should not do good things purely for the praise of others, we should do good things because they are the right thing to do.

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                5 months ago

                We’re talking about politicians who do things for votes. The whole system is predicated on popularity being the only thing that matters.

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            5 months ago

            So once the perfect moment has passed, might as well never try to catch up.

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              5 months ago

              The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is… fuck it, I’m just going to complain that there aren’t enough trees.