• @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    Good lord.

    My impression of Lemmy lately:

    <something good happens, gets reported>

    Lemmy: that’s cool, but babies get cancer.

    Like, come on…

    • @[email protected]
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      125 months ago

      Hey everyone, this guy doesn’t want us talking about baby cancer! How much is Big Baby Cancer paying you, bro?

    • @[email protected]
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      115 months ago

      I agree in sentiment, but this headline is objectively depressing.

      < New home - yay! >

      < Decades after a racist mob burned her old home down >

      Well fuck.

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        5 months ago

        You might need to talk to someone about potential clinical depression. That doesn’t seem like a healthy takeaway.

        It’s nice to see someone who has struggled have good things happen. Potentially nicer to see than a report on someone who hasn’t struggled as much.

        Although it’d be nicer if bad things didn’t happen. But they always will to some extent.

        It’s nice when things get better.

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          5 months ago

          I mean, yes, but the only way you don’t see the implications of the headline is if you’re willfully ignoring them.

          I agree, it’s nice that her kids and grandkids have a house they can live in. What about those 85 years she went without a home? That’s a shitload of time an entire lifetime, and what about the other people who have had horrible things done to them for horrible reasons? Who will receive nothing?

          I’m with you, yes this is a nice thing. It’s not at all unhealthy to draw these conclusions from the story, however.

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            5 months ago

            It’s normal to note and even be upset about the bad thing that happened decades ago.

            However, when it’s the primary focus of your response to a news article like this - that a bad thing happened decades ago, instead of the actual news that a good thing just happened (and that the bad thing is context and why it might be extra meaningful) - that seems unhealthy.

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              85 months ago

              You seem to have missed me pointing out that countless other bad things have happened, which is the ‘orphan crushing machine’ point.

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                45 months ago

                Then that would be a reaction to an article about those things, not this one.

                Especially in this community. This one is supposed to be a tiny place where people can actually find good things that happened. Every other community apparently is for focusing on the bad stuff. So it’s nice to have one single one that isn’t, just for a break.

                If you can’t find a way to avoid pathologically trying to focus everyone’s attention on other bad shit in a rare article about something good, then at the very least it might be a good idea to block the community.

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      95 months ago

      That’s not accurate.

      You didn’t blame the baby cancer on capitalism and/or Israel.

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      85 months ago

      That’s not the point. The meme of the orphan crushing machine is that headlines report an orphan being saved as something uplifting when really the problem is that someone built a machine for the express purpose of crushing orphans, and it’s still running.

      It’s not uplifting news that this lady gets to move back home. It’s horrifying that her house was torched by a racist mob and she hasn’t been able to live there for 85 years.