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What's the hardest thing you had to come to terms with? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by SpaceFox@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me it was the fact that I would always be slower than everyone else and I would have to put in twice the effort.

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[–] Inf_V@kbin.earth 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

probably that the majority of people are self serving and extremely fake. it's pretty insane how many "activists" there are that hate the people they supposedly want to protect.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

That happens because it's a social act. People who don't want to, but have to due to some sort of obligation or as an indirect action towards achieving something else.

Activism is a chore they have to do, so without people in charge sincere in what they do and aware of this type of obligation, any attempt at serious activism will end up half-baked and likely to do more harm than good.

It's tough to find people who do something for the sake of it and not as a springboard meant to pursue other interests.

[–] ghostrider2112@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Good observation. At least with some of the more rational Republicans that I have conversed with over the years in the US, that has been one of their complaints with people on the left. That is where some of them come up with “nanny state” (setting aside that they have dozens of other ways they would love to create a nanny state themselves).