• Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 hours ago

      This is such an annoying reply that I see everywhere. Yes, you need to treat a disease, but sometimes a single symptom can be the most threatening part of a disease.

      If I’m having a heart attack, I don’t need a diatribe about diet and exercise to fix the disease, I need CPR to fix the symptom.

      He may just be a symptom of a greater problem, but he’s a pretty big fucking problem by himself.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        Well said. I don’t get the impulse for people to be like “there is no solution here. Trump gone won’t change anything” which is just stupid. Yes there is a huge systemic problem… but your metaphor here works well to explain why the take of the other person is not helpful.

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          All of it is helpful. This is just public discourse, and it’s important that we don’t become one dimensional in our understandings. Nobody here is going to make an argument so precise and well done that it’ll motivate any one of us to go to the local gun store and start target practice. Helpful in this context is being wise, flexible, understanding, … don’t let yourself become distracted, predictable, or blind.

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            4 hours ago

            I agree with you for the most part, but if your words are easily taken as “it’s hopeless” that is not good.

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        6 hours ago

        Yeah, well, you don’t take care of yourself after a heart attack, eventually you’re gonna die from one. We’ve had several heart attacks.

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      6 hours ago

      And yet he is the worst president in history. Are we to give up because the corrupt system and idiotic public, both of which give him power, exists?