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Anyone else sick of "Don't complain because Homeless people/People in aleppo"

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  • 22-12-2016 6:06pm
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    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,105 ✭✭✭✭


    Every comment I see on facebook and on here increasingly is "Why is this published when there is people suffering in aleppo" "Why should we build a road when there is homeless people" "Don't complain because the people in aleppo have it worse than you"

    Should we all just stop our daily lives and wallow in misery at the hardship homeless people and the poor citizens of Aleppo have to endure?

    I do feel sorry for these people and support the organisations trying to sort out these situations, but I feel its been taken too extreme now.


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    osarusan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,545 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    It's some kind of natural law that people who post 'first world problems/things are much worse in ABC' will also be moaning about their own insignificant problems somewhere else.


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    DrumSteve
    Registered Users Posts: 10,799 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    TBH I don't think the people in Aleppo have worse broadband than I do. Goddamn Eircom. :mad:


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    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    osarusan wrote: »
    It's some kind of natural law that people who post 'first world problems/things are much worse in ABC' will also be moaning about their own insignificant problems somewhere else.
    Nice for them to have somewhere else to complain.

    You know where else the wains starving in Biafra have to complain?

    Nowhere


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    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Where is the road being built


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    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Where is the road being built

    Not in my back yard anyway.


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    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,105 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Where is the road being built

    I've seen this argument being used against the current M18/M17 that's being built and the proposed M20


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    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,105 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    TBH I don't think the people in Aleppo have worse broadband than I do. Goddamn Eircom. :mad:

    Shocking here too!


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    Gatling
    Registered Users Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Where is the road being built

    Wales apparently
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    Ferrari3600
    Closed Accounts Posts: 617 ✭✭✭Ferrari3600


    It's a disgrace Joe.


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    petrolcan
    Registered Users Posts: 898 ✭✭✭petrolcan


    Not a new phenomenon. The ethiopian famine in the '80s garnered similar feelings.


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    A Little Pony
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    Some people seem to think room is available for refugees but the homeless in society in ROI don't seem to be able to find that room, which preferably has a bed.


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    blindside88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭blindside88


    A Little Pony wrote: »
    Some people seem to think room is available for refugees but the homeless in society in ROI don't seem to be able to find that room, which preferably has a bed.

    There is lots of room in certain parts of the country but a significant portion of the "homeless" won't move out of the city centres. I saw "homeless" as the front page of my local paper this week had a homeless woman and her kids not given a council house. She lives in her mothers house so isn't homeless as far as I'm concerned


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    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    People in Aleppo would love to be homeless in Ireland right now. It's all relative, joe.


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    jamesbere
    Registered Users Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    You could be homeless in aleppo, that's definitely worse


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    Jurgen Klopp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Jurgen Klopp


    petrolcan wrote: »
    Not a new phenomenon. The ethiopian famine in the '80s garnered similar feelings.

    Was that where the Irish mammies got the "you didn't finish your dinner and children starving in Africa" I wonder? :pac:

    In regards to the OP, tell them there has always been war or famine somewhere else in the world if we stopped to worry about every incident like it we'd never be able to get out of the bed


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    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    It's useful for ideologues because they can safely undermine others and assume a moral high ground or 'win' while safely skirting any difficulties re: addressing the point at hand.

    For example, rather than discuss a particular atrocity to hand, immediately throw in a reference to drone deaths. Not that you give a rattling sh1te about some Iraqui villager or ever actually do any constructive about it, but you 'win' so jobs oxo.


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    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,727 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Great news from Aleppo, all the terrorist rebels have been removed and it is now in full government control.

    So it could be worse in Aleppo.


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    petrolcan
    Registered Users Posts: 898 ✭✭✭petrolcan


    Jurgen Klopp wrote: »
    Was that where the Irish mammies got the "you didn't finish your dinner and children starving in Africa" I wonder? :pac:

    That's the one.

    The usual retort was 'post them the leftovers then' which tended to be met with a threat of the wooden spoon or the back of a hand.


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    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,362 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Being grateful for what you have is good for you mentally and psychologically plus an attitude of me me me is a horrible way to live.


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