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minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down10·edit-23 days agoI’m just trying not to replace this with something worse. But since I know history I get to watch humans make the same mistakes over and over again.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·3 days agoFun fact: not questioning capitalism inevitably leads to EXTRA awfulness added as the people at the top use their outsized wealth and influence to remake society based on their stupid and/or selfish ideas.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·edit-23 days agoCapitalism sucks ass, for its own unique reasons and for reasons it shares with other economic systems. If it’s replaced with another system with clocks and pants and jobs I’ll hate that one too.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days ago Capitalism sucks ass Yup. You can stop there. No need to tack on the whataboutism in a transparent attempt to argue in favor of it without being seen doing so.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·3 days agoI will not have my honor impugned by suggesting I support a system with pants.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days agoThen leave out the unnecessary “but other systems are bad too” whataboutism 🤷🏻
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-23 days agoDo those systems have pants? Then I think they’re bad, too.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoAgain, that’s not the point. With the possible exception of fundamentalist anarcho-primitism, all systems tend to involve pants one way or the other. That DOESN’T preclude you from criticizing the system currently ruining the world more than any other without a whataboutism caveat.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 days agoI’ve long ago come to terms with the fact that I will never be truly happy. But I’m not going to pretend I like pants.
minus-squaregreenbit@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 days agoWe should work on replacing then, it’s clear that the way things are has to go
I’m just trying not to replace this with something worse.
But since I know history I get to watch humans make the same mistakes over and over again.
Fun fact: not questioning capitalism inevitably leads to EXTRA awfulness added as the people at the top use their outsized wealth and influence to remake society based on their stupid and/or selfish ideas.
Capitalism sucks ass, for its own unique reasons and for reasons it shares with other economic systems.
If it’s replaced with another system with clocks and pants and jobs I’ll hate that one too.
Yup. You can stop there.
No need to tack on the whataboutism in a transparent attempt to argue in favor of it without being seen doing so.
I will not have my honor impugned by suggesting I support a system with pants.
Then leave out the unnecessary “but other systems are bad too” whataboutism 🤷🏻
Do those systems have pants? Then I think they’re bad, too.
Again, that’s not the point.
With the possible exception of fundamentalist anarcho-primitism, all systems tend to involve pants one way or the other.
That DOESN’T preclude you from criticizing the system currently ruining the world more than any other without a whataboutism caveat.
I’ve long ago come to terms with the fact that I will never be truly happy.
But I’m not going to pretend I like pants.
We should work on replacing then, it’s clear that the way things are has to go