It just feels difficult to have meaningful conversations on here sometimes. Like yes I dislike America, but I don't need to act like nothing good has ever come out of it. Maybe China is better than America, but I don't want Xi nuking American cities. I don't think war is suddenly cool and good because Ukraine has some nazis in it. Not everyone I disagree with is some bumbling mass of idiocy, a lot of times we just differ on certain core values.

    • CantaloupeAss [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I already feel like that in my own city - I walk around and see all this beautiful architecture and infrastructure and social investment from 80-100 years ago and it's like, damn, the 1930s is really the last time we did anything other than build disposable buildings for chain restaurants and spend the profits on war. Everything since then rests, unsustainably, on the back of that era.

        • CantaloupeAss [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          That's the part I feel most acutely aware of haha, every time I'm in a tunnel I'm like "wow they dug this without computers I sure hope someone from some criminally underfunded agency has looked at it since then and someone is listening to their recommendations :oh-shit: "