“cynicism is hip, but it’s exactly as irrational to start with optimism.”
being cynical doesn’t help anyone or anything. being optimistic does help things.
“You’ve got to start with what is, and what ought to be and work from there.”
this is what I do.
you and the others defending “reasonable” genocide is not working toward what “ought to be”, unless you believe that what “ought to be” is giving up on life or some drastic action like global genocide (which is also giving up)
Existential comics is a humour series. I disagree, it’s a joke.
If that’s what you do, good for you. For every few dark jokes there’s someone posting “orphan crushing machine” style glurg. Optimism in the face of horrors or no hope is just unhealthy denial.
I was not trying to fix the world with that post, I agree. Sometimes I do write something that helps someone, though. IRL I do a bunch of volunteer work.
The comic is supposed to be a joke, your attempted misdirect that the joke is about cthulhu’s reasoning abilities is incorrect and doesn’t track.
the comic wants to make a joke about the world being so bad that even a human can be convinced that all the humans should be killed by a world killing entity.
“Optimism in the face of horrors or no hope is just unhealthy denial”
absolutely incorrect.
this statement is a symptom of your poisoned worldview that allows you and the others to unironically defend the reasoning for global genocide.
optimism in the face of horrors is not “denial”, it springs from a more complete understanding of the world that you can change things.
I know that I can change things for the better because I change things for the better, whether it’s difficult or not.
people who assume things can’t change are the reason things don’t change.
No, I assure you, there’s plenty of people that think they have all the solutions, and given the chance would turn everything upside-down on their snipe hunt. For every good idea there’s someone who thinks we just need a purge day, or a lot of tiny bunkers. The “good people that do nothing” are shit too, I guess.
Do you honestly think you can fix everything yourself? I hope not; stepping off the hard-edged debate thing a bit, I had a really rough time when I found out that’s not real life.
people who assume things can’t change are the reason things don’t change.
I was providing a counterexample. Activists are are people who believe things can change, but are always trainwrecks personally. When they’re on the right side of history it’s luck - there’s just as as many that aren’t.
I don’t think I was ever like that exactly, no. And I certainly never have supported a purge day or Hoxha bunkers - those were just a couple especially easy-to-understand examples. If you want self-criticism I have plenty, but it’s not like that.
I know that I can change things for the better because I change things for the better, whether it’s difficult or not.
That’s what I was responding to in the second part about fixing things yourself. I volunteer, and it’s basically like trying to piss out a housefire most of the time. We don’t change things for the better perceptibly.
You’re wrong about what I commented originally, but I’ve covered why fully so I’m just ignoring that now. Where we can maybe exchange useful information is on optimism.
preface: you know what, writing this was still fun, don’t take my outrage too seriously.
no wait, don’t take the outrage too personally.
take the outrage seriously, but not personally.
“Activists are always trainwrecks personally.”
objectively untrue. in fact, I’m an activist and I’m killing it.
Stop making these obviously incorrect absolute statements.
absolute statements are never correct (this is a joke. notice how I made an absolute statement about absolute statements being never correct).
some people are train wrecks. some people are not.
it took you so long to write this response and you get basic facts incorrect in the second sentence.
geez.
sorry, you interrupted me in the middle of macgruber and you start off from such an indefensible, inaccurate point right off the bat.
“I don’t think I was ever like that exactly”
you don’t think you were exactly like an activist train wreck analogy that you just made up that nobody accused you of being?
Great. super relevant stuff you got going.
I also don’t think you were ever exactly a tap-dancing hippopotamus, another thing nobody was talking about.
“We don’t change things for the better perceptibly.”
If you really are a volunteer and not making a difference, that sucks.
maybe try firefighting? or americorps? something that you’ll be able to perceive as directly helpful with each action.
“…I’m just ignoring that now.”
Great, thanks for ignoring it so much. you wrote a bunch of paragraphs about it.
“Where we can maybe exchange useful information is on optimism.”
noooo thank you, we are not on the same level to be able to exchange useful information.
you’re a total negative Nelly.
If you want help or a different perspective, you can ask for it, I do not need anything from your side, thank you for the oblique offer.
We aren’t working together.
I am proactively pointing out that global genocide is an unreasonable punitive device, you are arguing that hey, the eldritch God advocating for genocide makes some points.
look, you’re in the negotiation phase where you’re trying to find common ground, but you should probably give up because none of the other phases have worked for you.
you previously thought there were arguments to be made for genocide, now you’re rethinking your position.
that’s great!
that’s literally all I was trying to do with my comment, remind everybody who’s making cynical pro-genocide comments that as practical measures or even as a “joke”, none of the arguments make sense and believing that they do just shifts you further toward the authoritarian powers trying to crush your spirit and sense of community.
you eventually responded correctly by critically re-examining your beliefs.
objectively untrue. in fact, I’m an activist and I’m killing it.
Literally, 99%+ are trainwrecks. The ones that aren’t are there by accident. There are nice people, and strong people; nobody is both.
I don’t know you, but I think there’s an elevated chance you’re a rare exception just based on your very unconventional style. If so, you’ll figure it out eventually.
it took you so long to write this response and you get basic facts incorrect in the second sentence.
Check my history, I just haven’t been on Lemmy for a couple days.
maybe try firefighting? or americorps? something that you’ll be able to perceive as directly helpful with each action.
The analogy continues. You can piss out a thing in the house, and that’s good and why we do it, but it’s probably just going to catch again as long as the house burns.
haha, instead of “literally” when you mean “anecdotally”, try “99% of the activists I know are train wrecks”
far less available comment that makes way more sense as supporting evidence for whatever point you’re making.
“you’re a rare exception”
I am! that’s very nice of you to say, eh?
“it’s probably just going to catch again as long as the house burns.”
that’s fine, you keep fixing it. putting out fires every day doesn’t mean you’re not making a difference, it just means there are a lot of fires that need your help.
that’s not the joke.
“cynicism is hip, but it’s exactly as irrational to start with optimism.”
being cynical doesn’t help anyone or anything. being optimistic does help things.
“You’ve got to start with what is, and what ought to be and work from there.”
this is what I do.
you and the others defending “reasonable” genocide is not working toward what “ought to be”, unless you believe that what “ought to be” is giving up on life or some drastic action like global genocide (which is also giving up)
Existential comics is a humour series. I disagree, it’s a joke.
If that’s what you do, good for you. For every few dark jokes there’s someone posting “orphan crushing machine” style glurg. Optimism in the face of horrors or no hope is just unhealthy denial.
I was not trying to fix the world with that post, I agree. Sometimes I do write something that helps someone, though. IRL I do a bunch of volunteer work.
The comic is supposed to be a joke, your attempted misdirect that the joke is about cthulhu’s reasoning abilities is incorrect and doesn’t track.
the comic wants to make a joke about the world being so bad that even a human can be convinced that all the humans should be killed by a world killing entity.
“Optimism in the face of horrors or no hope is just unhealthy denial”
absolutely incorrect.
this statement is a symptom of your poisoned worldview that allows you and the others to unironically defend the reasoning for global genocide.
optimism in the face of horrors is not “denial”, it springs from a more complete understanding of the world that you can change things.
I know that I can change things for the better because I change things for the better, whether it’s difficult or not.
people who assume things can’t change are the reason things don’t change.
Guess you need to volunteer more.
No, I assure you, there’s plenty of people that think they have all the solutions, and given the chance would turn everything upside-down on their snipe hunt. For every good idea there’s someone who thinks we just need a purge day, or a lot of tiny bunkers. The “good people that do nothing” are shit too, I guess.
Do you honestly think you can fix everything yourself? I hope not; stepping off the hard-edged debate thing a bit, I had a really rough time when I found out that’s not real life.
“there’s plenty of people that think they have all the solutions”
don’t know how you segued here, are you trying to get something off your chest?
“For every good idea there’s someone who thinks we just need a purge day”
not sure why you’re veering right here either.
are you saying you thought these things before and now you don’t?
“The “good people that do nothing” are shit too, I guess.”
they’re not great.
“Do you honestly think you can fix everything yourself?”
did someone tell you I could or did you come to that conclusion yourself?
flattering.
“I had a really rough time when I found out that’s not real life”
so it took you a pretty long time to realize that you can only control your own actions?
avoiding uncomfortable truths is probably tied into why you’re finding it difficult to take responsibility for your comments here .
I was providing a counterexample. Activists are are people who believe things can change, but are always trainwrecks personally. When they’re on the right side of history it’s luck - there’s just as as many that aren’t.
I don’t think I was ever like that exactly, no. And I certainly never have supported a purge day or Hoxha bunkers - those were just a couple especially easy-to-understand examples. If you want self-criticism I have plenty, but it’s not like that.
That’s what I was responding to in the second part about fixing things yourself. I volunteer, and it’s basically like trying to piss out a housefire most of the time. We don’t change things for the better perceptibly.
You’re wrong about what I commented originally, but I’ve covered why fully so I’m just ignoring that now. Where we can maybe exchange useful information is on optimism.
preface: you know what, writing this was still fun, don’t take my outrage too seriously.
no wait, don’t take the outrage too personally.
take the outrage seriously, but not personally.
“Activists are always trainwrecks personally.”
objectively untrue. in fact, I’m an activist and I’m killing it.
Stop making these obviously incorrect absolute statements.
absolute statements are never correct (this is a joke. notice how I made an absolute statement about absolute statements being never correct).
some people are train wrecks. some people are not.
it took you so long to write this response and you get basic facts incorrect in the second sentence.
geez.
sorry, you interrupted me in the middle of macgruber and you start off from such an indefensible, inaccurate point right off the bat.
“I don’t think I was ever like that exactly”
you don’t think you were exactly like an activist train wreck analogy that you just made up that nobody accused you of being?
Great. super relevant stuff you got going.
I also don’t think you were ever exactly a tap-dancing hippopotamus, another thing nobody was talking about.
“We don’t change things for the better perceptibly.”
If you really are a volunteer and not making a difference, that sucks.
maybe try firefighting? or americorps? something that you’ll be able to perceive as directly helpful with each action.
“…I’m just ignoring that now.”
Great, thanks for ignoring it so much. you wrote a bunch of paragraphs about it.
“Where we can maybe exchange useful information is on optimism.”
noooo thank you, we are not on the same level to be able to exchange useful information.
you’re a total negative Nelly.
If you want help or a different perspective, you can ask for it, I do not need anything from your side, thank you for the oblique offer.
We aren’t working together.
I am proactively pointing out that global genocide is an unreasonable punitive device, you are arguing that hey, the eldritch God advocating for genocide makes some points.
look, you’re in the negotiation phase where you’re trying to find common ground, but you should probably give up because none of the other phases have worked for you.
you previously thought there were arguments to be made for genocide, now you’re rethinking your position.
that’s great!
that’s literally all I was trying to do with my comment, remind everybody who’s making cynical pro-genocide comments that as practical measures or even as a “joke”, none of the arguments make sense and believing that they do just shifts you further toward the authoritarian powers trying to crush your spirit and sense of community.
you eventually responded correctly by critically re-examining your beliefs.
that’s great.
I’m going back to magruber.
Literally, 99%+ are trainwrecks. The ones that aren’t are there by accident. There are nice people, and strong people; nobody is both.
I don’t know you, but I think there’s an elevated chance you’re a rare exception just based on your very unconventional style. If so, you’ll figure it out eventually.
Check my history, I just haven’t been on Lemmy for a couple days.
The analogy continues. You can piss out a thing in the house, and that’s good and why we do it, but it’s probably just going to catch again as long as the house burns.
Enjoy macgruber, and have a nice life.
“Literally, 99%+ are trainwrecks”
haha, instead of “literally” when you mean “anecdotally”, try “99% of the activists I know are train wrecks”
far less available comment that makes way more sense as supporting evidence for whatever point you’re making.
“you’re a rare exception”
I am! that’s very nice of you to say, eh?
“it’s probably just going to catch again as long as the house burns.”
that’s fine, you keep fixing it. putting out fires every day doesn’t mean you’re not making a difference, it just means there are a lot of fires that need your help.