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I remember as a child “if you keep your face that way, it will stick”

It’s something to be aware of :)

I very specifically said you were not a target, just a launching point to talk about the topic. Have a good day.

I’m not angry at you. I am right with you laughing about the ridiculous way things happen.

My question is if this attitude is hindering to the actual conversation needed to be had.

Having to repeat that I want to be talking about the problem multiple times and being met with defensive posts not addressing the issue at hand, but defending the ego of saying what was said… that has me thinking that yes, distraction of complaining is effective at hiding the problems.

You are defending your complaints and not speaking of solutions.

Isn’t joking about corruption and laughing about how the world is fucked just as deadly?

I’m not trying to make some grand declaration. I’m just wondering what people think about joking about our messed up world is doing in diminishing actually doing anything.

I didn’t make a clear point. I meant that alcoholism is a coping mechanism and it is a net negative. Is mocking situations and derailing the seriousness of those situations similar?

I’m asking in a curious mood. I have no agenda here.

Alcoholism is a coping mechanism 🤷☹

I get it %100. I’m not meaning to target you as a bad actor or any of the people saying these things, because you’re totally right that all we have power over is laughing about the corruption.

My curiosity is if our collective “well shit, that’s how it is haha” is a negative feedback loop discouraging a ny action

Are cheeky responses like this hindering progress? It’s nothing about you, I just want to speak about this trend that is everywhere and I guess here is where I start.

Read comically, yea, it is funny to laugh about how terrible something is. But it sucks the serious nature of the topic away and now it’s a joke.

Considering a significant amount of people browse just headlines and top comments, everything is a joke. No one is actually talking about anything.

Again, not you in any way. Yours is one of the millions of normalized joke-respones the internet has conditioned us to.

We are beholden to the system, so at least laugh about it. But then take it down too.