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Candelestine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Haha, I think it is more bullying by way too online people who severely need to go touch grass for some time.

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  • Candelestine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, young people pushing boundaries and very angry people needing to vent justifiable rage will not go away any time soon.

    In bad cases, they sometimes don’t touch grass because they want all the grass to die. You can’t reach that person very easily, there’s a whole mountain range of anger in the way. The Earth just has all sorts on it, and this is one of them. It’s best to understand what it’s all about.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh, of course, it’s always related to material conditions, regardless of personal motivations. People will always do their best with what they know and have immediate access to, angry people online have my sympathies. I realise that some people just need to vent when I get a shitty comment, so I never take it super personally anymore. No matter what field you are in, if you create conditions for something living to flourish, it will pay back your investment tenfold, which makes the current modus operandi of short-term capital gain at all cost ever more tragic.

      Food for thought:

      • pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29081831/
      • wcfia.harvard.edu/…/transcript_jodidi11-5-2018

      Nothing will get better until we decide we want something different, collectively, en masse.

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      • Candelestine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And social conditions too, but yeah, ultimately.

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