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[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (3 children)

reading 1984 as a kid: Wow how could anyone live in England?

understanding the world a bit more as an adult: The overwhelming majority of people just live where they were born and accept whatever good or bad things come along. Making positive changes to our system is a slow process, not unlike planting trees so that future people can enjoy the shade.

me now: Wow how could anyone live in England?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

The overwhelming majority of people just live where they were born and accept whatever good or bad things come along.

This!! I've been trying to tell people this for so long but no one every listens. Most people especially Americans are the boiling frog. They choose to live in blissful ignorance because it's easier than actually fixing the problem, and now the rest of us who can actually acknowledge what's going on have to suffer

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

LOL... how could anyone live in a country with free healthcare, subsidized higher ed, public transit that covers the vast majority of the population, practically zero gun battles daily.... oof, yeah, how could anyone?

pfft

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Imagine not having the freedom to have your daily gun battle!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I don't have that hope. There's plenty of gun violence in my country and state and neighborhood. I'm not anti-guns per se, I'm anti-fuckwits and universal firearms access is leading to the a real dystopia.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Can't even plant a tree because someone "owns" the land.