• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Good people joke to cope with the absurdity of our society’s tolerance of it and our fellow citizens demanding it stay this way so they can selfishly keep their pew pews.

    It happens all the time. We live in morbid times. The sane can cry about it, be numb to it, or laugh the absurdity of it, because we have no recourse to address it. The ignorant rugged individuals that don’t want a society have spoken.

    Shooting each other like dogs when we aren’t exploiting eachother for private profit is who we are and I’m ashamed of it, would you rather people horrified of this reality find a coping mechanism to get through the day like dark humor, or just kill ourselves so as not to offend?

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      11 months ago

      I’m worried that if I legit stopped laughing about it, I’d become a gun statistic myself.

      Big /s on this one. No suicidal or homicidal ideations, but man, am I floored by kindergarten rhymes about lockdowns and having gotten 2 lockdown notifications from my 11-year-olds school in last month (neither were active shooters but when the message subject is just "lockdown’ there’s that moment where you just don’t know)

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        11 months ago

        We chose guns over them. I intend to tell my child that when they reach the age of reason. Some individuals like me did not, but overall society says that their ability to buy unlimited murder toys is more important than their life. That is what our society values. This is who we are.

        I will tell them this because it is true, and they need to operate in the world as it is, not as I would like it to be. I will also tell them that is an example of how important it is NOT to allow what society believes to dictate what they believe, as most of what our society believes is cruel and exploitative, and I hope that’s not who they want to be.