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Nope, I'm seriously asking why anyone should bother if things will get 10% worse every year.
The problem here is you can't seem to decide whether that claim is serious or a joke.
They will perform on Lemmy regardless of what I say. I enjoy giving such people enough rope.
What? I'm right sorry if you're just a hater
You're literally constantly talking about things you hate. Have you checked your own comment history?
If you read my comments and think I'm motivated by hate I think that's what they call projection
These all you? Because they're in the last two pages of your post history. They sure all look like you hating on things to me:
Here's you literally hating on firefighters less than a day ago:
Shall I keep going?
Incidentally, I don't hate you. You're not remotely important enough to me for that.
Taking just the firefighting comment out of context as "hating" kind of confirms that you're not actually reading what I'm saying or understanding it either.
My issue is that unelected fire officials often override elected officials pushing for safe streets. They're treated with reverence despite their role in the mass auto fatalities every day.
I'll respond to you more once I'm done with this shift.
Irony.
Try to get past the first sentence next time, maybe you'll actually understand what I'm saying.
Again, irony.
Do you have an issue with safe streets?
That's not even relevant to the hypocrisy of you calling someone a "hater" based on a single comment and then saying you aren't a "hater" based on multiple comments because they're all supposedly out of context.
But I'm not surprised you're trying to change the subject.
And no matter how much you want me to, you're still not important enough to me to hate. Sorry.
You said I was a hater citing as evidence that I was being critical of fire departments when they oppose safe streets, because more people die from car crashes than house fires by an order of magnitude.
You seem to be confusing being critical with "hating"
Don't worry I'll address the rest of your allegations once I'm not using my phone to reply.
Yet again, irony.
I'm not surprised you're again trying to change the subject rather than face the fact that pretty much everything you've said since you hilariously called me a "hater" has been hypocritical.
Hey, you said all my comments are hating, and provided as most recent evidence me advocating for safer streets. Now you refuse to even engage on the topic you brought up.
It's not exactly changing the subject to ask you if you have some issues with the thing you yourself cited.
I did not say that.
You're now lying to avoid your hypocritical comments.
Her* my pronouns are right in my display name
I'm serious things are getting worse for a lot of people. Maybe 10% is a bit hyperbolic, but my rent went up by more than 10% in just the last year, I know I'm not alone there.
Food prices went up, COVID subsidies ended, energy prices go up, transport costs go up. All tied to this admins foreign and domestic policies.
We can quibble over if it's 10% or something slightly lower number, but unless you're in a bubble things have been getting worse for people.
Also why bother? I'm willing to fight even if it looks hopeless and I don't think I'm alone there either.
Does it look hopeless or is it just hopeless?
Because even if you are being hyperbolic about the 10%, if it definitely always gets worse every year, then it sounds like it's just hopeless and we should all give up. Because, based on what you have said so far, life will never get better no matter what.
That makes any fighting pointless.
That's just being defeatist, I really don't care how hopeless things get, people can organize their way out of it.
Even if the AMOC collapses in 30years I'll still be around, having perfect opinions
If things will literally never get better, it isn't being defeatist, it's being defeated.
You can't stop the sun from expanding.
Of course, if you concede that things can get better, even a little, then things are worth fighting for.
Something tells me you won't make that concession though.
Things can absolutely get better, I can concede that. It's just that the bad guys won, the workers of the world already lost against the forces of endless exploitation.
I'm not going to stop fighting for everyone to be free just because of a few setbacks that happened before I was born.