• Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    But if it’s not, it’s creating a false sense of progress that causes people to underestimate the problem and feel like it’s resolved when it’s really, really not

    No, its trying to tell you that you could make a difference if you tried instead of just assuming its going to fail and doing nothing. Like, in the actual words in the meme.

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      5 hours ago

      I feel like maybe they just have a sort of agnostic approach to these 10 people’s actual freedom, which I understand having been on the wrong side of a booking cell door, even local PD will drag their feet all night and release you at 2am for a laugh. And you’re trying to say that regardless of whether or not they are outside of a jail, this person has made an effort that they thought would be difficult and found to be otherwise, and is trying to share his apparent success in an attempt to encourage others to act as well. And I agree that the message is perhaps more important than the reality right now, but I also understand jaded “nothing ever happens” mentality online.

      I’m stoned and it’s midnight, thanks for reading.