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[โ€“] shneancy@lemmy.world 128 points 1 day ago (2 children)

the good old "how dare you desire for your life to be better when there's people who's lives are worse!"

[โ€“] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 14 hours ago

We don't compare trauma. This isn't a competition.

[โ€“] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 hours ago

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

If I hear that, I show the stupidity by doing the opposite:

How can you be happy? There are people getting married today, they are much happier!

.Yeah yeah, not all who marry are happy, you get the point