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Topic subjectI don't get your whole thing. Are you saying No One on the Planet is thriving?
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13416840, I don't get your whole thing. Are you saying No One on the Planet is thriving?
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Tue Dec-15-20 01:29 PM
Or No Black People in America?

You say there are "Lots" of other places that are better. But you didn't name one. Can you name a place that would be better?

I am also curious did you always feel this way or did something change? And if the former, when did it change?


You were dismissive of my world view but can't help but read your take on everything and it not a matter of disposition.



>That as long as you got a roof over your head and food on
>your plate things "feel good" so they must be good.
>
>But they're not.
>
>Things are bad, and there's no point in me lying to myself
>about that part.
>
>
>>I know a lot of people are out there suffering and don't even
>have
>>these baseline benefits of good health, family, security,
>shelter but
>>those of us who do have those things are no benefit to the
>people who
>>do not have those things and would be unable to help them, if
>we are
>>hopeless and see the challenges as so insurmountable.
>
>My view also isn't hopeless, it's realistic. Because without
>an honest accounting people can offer us pennies on the
>dollars while actively making things worse. The challenges we
>face as a people, as a country, as a planet aren't
>insurmountable ... but they are large and people will tell you
>that it's not that bad ... when it truly is ... take that
>recycling and plastics post from a few months back ... we
>could've actually been doing something about recycling and now
>we're another 30-40 years worse


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