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Please do not use the occasion of the death of thousands of Iranians in a war we launched against them as some sort of illustrative point about return to office
by phlakaton 7mo ago
Please do not use the occasion of the death of thousands of Iranians in a war we launched against them as some sort of illustrative point about return to office and birth rates in the West.
- buellerbueller 7mo agoYes, ignore the natural experiment that is unfolding before our very eyes, and gain nothing at all from the war that is causing it. Like the saying goes: lemons -> lemonade
- phlakaton 7mo agoThere's no lemonade to be found here at this time. What there is to be found are a bunch of tone-deaf people who seem utterly ignorant and indifferent to the war's reality.
- buellerbueller 7mo agoObviously there is, you just refuse to recognize it. I think this war is terrible, Trump is the worst president of American history by a wide margin, and yet, I can still be happy that we are able to glean insight from learnings that came about as a result of forces not under my control. Finding good among the bad is such a commonplace occurrence that my native tongue, English, has many metaphors for it. I already mentioned making lemons into lemonade; there is also "every cloud has a silver lining," "every dog has his day," "light at the end of the tunnel," and "April showers bring May flowers" I suspect you would respond, "but Mayflowers brought genocidal white settlers!!!!" That's your problem, not mine.
- phlakaton 7mo agoAs a Mayflower descendant I would scarcely say that. But the fact that you offer cheap platitudes and tales from hundreds of years ago to justify why it's OK to consider why the current bombing and slaughter is good for our work-life balance remains astonishingly tone-deaf. This is absolutely a you problem.