Comment on Anon lives on a budget

• blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Right, but the reason it was posted here is to garner sympathy for this sort of doomer attitude, and I see this sort of attitude on Lemmy quite frequently. It’s the attitude of all the people downvoting me. So I figured I’d address the issue directly

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nah, im downvoting youcause you are not providing a lot of value to the conversation and keep dancing around with statements meant to look down on others.

    Basically im downvoting you cause i dont really care to watch you metaphorically masturbate to your own intelligence as a conversation style.

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    • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m not dancing around. I’m getting to the actual problem (a lack of belief that things could be better), rather than dancing around it (presenting some object-level suggestions that the doomers will inevitably shoot down, since they aren’t addressing the actual problem - believing things could be better).

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    People are downvoting you because you claim that they could do better but refuse to explain how. It’s hard to not take it as bullshit when you don’t substantiate your claim, and why wouldn’t people downvote bullshit in thread like this?

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    • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Anyone who isn’t doom-brained could read OOP and come up with some ideas for what they would do in that situation in approximately 5 seconds. Others in this thread have already come up with some excellent ideas.

      But having dealt with this mindset in myself and others in the past, and seeing it play out n times on Lemmy, I could already predict the pattern, which you can see playing out again in the other comments which have provided object-level solitions - naysayers come along and start listing every reason under the sun for why that particular idea couldn’t possibly work. And also it sucks. And also if you do it you’re a bad person.

      I’ll put it plainly - the solution is to start thinking of solutions. Your own solutions. They are the only ones you’ll ever actually believe.

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