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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don’t get me started on children

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No I really want to hear your take. This is gonna be fun 🍿

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The children I know don’t even like other children. You should ask them about how bad they are.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Okay but are these kids really so bad that they deserve to live in a sick society like AmeriKKKa? And if so (they're not, no one is, but even if we assume so), isn't that the fault of AmeriKKKan adults and not their kids who are in the process of learning how to be humans?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Society is sick because it’s made of humans. It’s not like there’s some alien brain worm making people act shitty. They’re just shitty. So shitty not even they care about their own kids. So why should I fight biology and eight billion psychotic apes who want to destroy the planet?

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So why should I fight biology

So I guess you don't get surgeries or take medications or wear glasses or ward off starvation by eating?

and eight billion psychotic apes who want to destroy the planet?

Because the planet and most of its inhabitants did nothing to deserve this? Because most of the 8 billion humans have done nothing to deserve this? Because humans and humanity are capable of changing for the better? Because I don't want to live on a capitalist planet? Also...we were talking about AmeriKKKan society, not the world at large, because this all started over the results of a survey of AmeriKKKans people, right? So you can't really use the results of this survey to extrapolate that humanity is beyond saving.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

I’ve stopped believing that humans can change for the better.

And unless I’m gonna implant mind control devices in all eight billion people I’m not going to stop them being shitty.

And, yes, I think everywhere is bad. Because humans.

Society is built of people. If society sucks it’s because people suck. And society sucks.