• SheeEttin@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      His son Lachlan Murdoch is taking over. Lachlan has been co-chair of News Corp since 2014, and a director before that. Given that Rupert is 92, I’m sure that Lachlan has already been calling the shots for a long time. This is not really a change.

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      I’m assuming he’s still running he company and this is just for appearances or financial reasons. There’s no way he won’t have control of what they do or say

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      Things always change. They just never get “perfect” because a new problem is always around the corner. Life is certainly no utopia though, nor will it be any time soon. We will not live to see the end of problems.

      That’s what it seems like people are hoping for anyway, some kind of problem-free world. It is unrealistic.

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        I’d be happy to see a world where people don’t actively create problems for others due to greed, ignorance, or bigotry.

        We got enough problems from natural disasters, disease, accidents, etc. If people could just not be dicks and not fuck each other over constantly that would be cool.

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        That’s what it seems like people are hoping for anyway, some kind of problem-free world. It is unrealistic.

        I think you are mistaken. People are upset for a lack of progress. How the pace of improvement is endlessly kneecapped.

        We won’t live to see the end of our problems. But there are several problems in our lives that could be ended very, very quickly if we actually gave a damn.

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          While I understand there’s been some very disappointing backsliding in the past decade or so, in order to see no progress anywhere you need to cherry pick your examples to actually avoid areas of improvement.

          I blane clickbait media and its doomerism.

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            Do you not understand how people work or something?

            Nobody is saying there has been “no progress anywhere”. But they’ll still be upset when there is little progress, or backsliding, on issues that affect them or that they are passionate about.

            It’s really quite condescending to waffle on about how suffering people need to look at the big picture, and how it’s unreasonable to expect their suffering to be alleviated during their lifetimes, when there really isn’t a good reason why they should be suffering as much as they are to begin with.

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              I was specifically responding to someone who said “things don’t change”. It sure sounded to me like “no progress anywhere”. Sorry if my response upset people, but I simply cannot agree that things don’t change.

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                I was specifically responding to someone who said “things don’t change”.

                The actual message was:

                I’m hoping things will change. Things will not change.

                Yeah I think people are upset because you are attacking positions nobody is taking, and disparaging progressives in the same breath.