• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Oh cool, we’ll just solve all other problems first, yeah? What’s your timeline on that? A couple months? A year?

    This is about money.

    This is about a business model.

    This is about a business model that’s infecting a multi-billion-dollar industry. It’s plenty important.

    “Just don’t buy it!” has done absolutely fucking nothing to stop this infection. I’m not-supporting-it as hard as I can, and hey guess what, systemic problems cannot be blamed on individual action. If only we had some mechanism for collectively handling those issues.

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      1 year ago

      It’s never gonna happen. That’s my point. And where did I blame “individual action” here? I’m on your side on this one, bud. I’m just being realistic about it.

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        1 year ago

        Fatalism is dull, and “just don’t buy it” is individual action.

        “Tough shit, nothing will happen” is not being on anyone’s side. Empty pessimism is a waste of everyone’s time.

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          1 year ago

          That’s not what Fatalism is, pointing out what can realistically be done isn’t “blaming”, and this is a Lemmy comment thread. All there is here is time wasting.

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            1 year ago

            It’s not realistic, it’s not all that can be done, and insisting we’re simply fucked is absogoddamnlutely what fatalism is.