• RaivoKulli
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    5715 days ago

    The go-to “you aren’t allowed to complain” that I heard was “well there are children starving in Africa”

      • RaivoKulli
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        213 days ago

        The trauma of hearing some weak ass reason of having to eat my peas? Lol

    • @lars@lemmy.sdf.org
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      514 days ago

      There was a liberating moment when I learned that just feeling awful was not an effective way to stop wars.

    • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      313 days ago

      “indeed there are, mother. that’s why i won’t eat this food and will instead put it in an insulated box and ship it to them, so they can enjoy it.”

    • @6nk06@sh.itjust.works
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      111 days ago

      Same in the 80s. We made pretty songs like “We are the world” and sent fucktons of rice to Africa that rot because dictators wanted to keep it. Fun times.