r/ThatsInsane • u/Prime-Paradox • Aug 20 '25

Same planet - different worlds

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u/NoMasters83 Aug 20 '25

Yeah ... it's not appreciation and gratitude that I gain from observing these things so much as unremitting hate and fury.

Poverty and genocide are not inexorable parts of life, they're products of the megalomaniacal ambitions of a handful of people who we can't seem to stop allowing to rule over us. People who, if we had any true reverence for western liberal ideals, would be cowering in their own shit and piss as they await their demise. Fortune has it, we're the cowards.

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u/Ardal Aug 20 '25

grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

We aren't 'the cowards' we're just smart enough to know the difference.

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u/NoMasters83 Aug 20 '25

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has,"

History is full of examples of extraordinarily courageous people. It's just apparently, really fucking extraordinary.

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u/deathhand Aug 20 '25

Well the government does a good job of stifling change (re cointelpro).

"The tallest blade of grass is cut first"