Comment on Something’s Poisoning America’s Land. Farmers Fear ‘Forever’ Chemicals. | Fertilizer made from city sewage has been spread on millions of acres of farmland for decades.

• Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Feels good to blame victims at a distance, doesn’t it

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  • Clent@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They aren’t victims. That’s my point.

    I’m sure it fells good for you to feel that they are and that you’re out there defending them.

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    • Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t know any American farmers, but I suspect they have limited options of who to vote for, and even when they diligently vote correctly at every opportunity, their candidates are incentivized to betray them the moment they take office. The more important truth, however, is this:

      When some misfortune befalls your fellow man, this instinct to bury pity with contempt hurts you more than it hurts them.

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      • StarshotJohn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I live around a ton of farmers. They all vote the same.

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      • Clent@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Lack of sympathy is not a form of contempt. Lack of sympathy is form of apathy. Contempt cannot exist where there is apathy.

        Your ignorance and suspicions are yours alone and do not transferable to me.

        It’s silly and weird for you to make up this story in your head about me and then attack that imagined person.

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