where is the part where everybody clapped?
I love it!
In my country, thered be a line of people asking for uneven cakes the day after.
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
The good old orphan crushing machine
They’ve improved the ending over the last version of this I read.
What’s was the prior ending? O.o
“…and they all clapped!”
“Condoms are under the sink”
$100%
I don’t recall exactly, but I’m pretty sure that the thank you card is a new addition.
Heh, “She had walked here”, and that’s a sign of poverty. Tell me you’re American without saying you’re American.
Walking there in the rain with shoes that absorb water is, even in places without the car culture of the US.
Or it’s a sign of lack of planning, but that doesn’t fit as well with the rest of the situation.
Or an advertisement for a certain popular YouTube shoe company
Well sure, but given the community, I’m commenting under the assumption that this is genuine.
actually had me until the last part
I don’t know if a world in which this is fake is better or not
Whole lotta “nothing ever happens” in the comments.
Motherfuckers won’t lemmy be wholesome! 😤
They won’t drop their cynicism out of fear of being fooled. They were fooled once or twice, it felt bad man, and now they over-compensate. To be fair, for some people this is the best course. If they can’t tell truth from fiction, it’s safer to assume most things are bullshit. It’s the low tolerance for risk, low reward group.
For something like this, there’s so little risk, there’s no reason not to just believe it, where’s the harm? Well, feeling foolish is hard to swallow for some people, especially young people.
or we just don’t see the world in such absurd hyperbole of either being a niavely optimistic or darkly cynical.
almost as if the world is just people being people, and the bakery owner could also be abuser her kids at home while she gives out free cupcakes to poor moms at the bakery.
crazy idea, i know. that the world is complex and people are too. that people can be really good in one moment, and absolute monsters in the next… or is that kinda too scary/hard to comprehend… so you they have to be ONE way or the OTHER.
Come on, lady. Not at the croissant tray! Geez.
A Facebook copypasta post designed to promote engagement and then regurgitated on twitter is not really my definition of wholesome.
Your MOM’S a Facebook copypasta designed to promote engagement and then regurgitated on Twitter!
my mom is too stupid to know how to use facebook.
so she watches fox news instead.
I will take “Shit That Did Not Happen” for 300 Alex.
Christ on a bike pal would it kill you to have a little whimsy in your life?
How is any of this bleak self congratulatory bullshit whimsy?
whimsy would be a post about how a butterfly landed on your dogs nose and it sneezed it off.
The whimsy is your ability to go “This is nice, I enjoy having some small hope that not everyone is a heartless shitheel.”
Instead of immediately personifying the ‘nothing ever happens’ meme, and deciding that spreading your opinion like a pair of cheeks to shit on what is potentially just a nice story about someone doing a nice thing, is more important than doing literally anything else.
If you can’t read that story and immediately flag it as fake you need to work on yourself. I would consider whoever made this shit up and posted instead of actually doing good in the world to be a heartless shitheel.
you realize that your yum is someone else yuck, right?
and them reporting that, and ruining your day, is your problem, not theirs.
I don’t like sports man. Every sports fan I meet and I say I’m not into sports, acts like I kicked them in the kidney and I’m the asshole. It never occurs to them that… maybe other people just don’t like sports and that’s fine and it’s not a personal insult against them as a person.
But please lecture me more how my perspective ruins your day or something, because you only want to think happy thoughts and regard critical thoughts as heresy or something.
Why does this story generate so much sympathy on here for the person instead of fiery rage against the social system that enables this?
Why should a small entrepreneur have to give away their products out of good will instead of society enabling everyone to buy a few cupcakes once a year?
Why socialise the problems for the many while promoting private profits for the few?
To be honest, I’m so full of rage at the system and the people who prop it up that every so often I just need to let myself feel happy and proud of the people who live in said system and help to starve it, not feed it.
Absolutely there are people who like it because it helps validate their shitty positions but there are also people who just need a win to keep them going in pushing back. It helps to know that your anger is not a lonely anger, that your need for justice is not unique and small.
Because we all need a mental break once in a while. Those of us that care and understand are exhausted by little Timmy’s lemonade stand to pay for his dad’s cancer treatment, Susie’s cupcake drive to help with mom’s insulin bills, a gofundme to help pay for someone’s unexpected disability, or just about every infuriating event where people paint glowing pictures like this to signal the virtue of the hard worker engaging in the grind to grace someone with survival rather than be enraged at the failure of society that necessitates child labor or social largesse to pay for someone’s continued life and liberty.
It’s fucked up. I hate that I have a government that would piss away trillions on bombs and Sturmabteilung killing people rather than invest in the citizens so someone of any age can afford insulin, or a cake or piñata for a kid’s birthday.
So allow us to shed a tear over a potentially apocryphal story where someone’s life is better for just a moment thanks to a person who expected nothing in return.
This is me. On the one hand, I am filled with rage that we have a society where a young mother can’t even afford a nice birthday for her kid, where the first part is the sort of story I witnessed over and over when I was in retail. On the other hand, this sort of story, even if it’s embellished or untrue, lets me hold hope for at least a moment that there’s good in this world worth fighting for.
the vast majority of your fellow citizens aren’t. they have more voting power than you
and they like this way.
A small business like a bakery is still within a community. Massive corporations are not.
Regarding this post, I’m mostly just pissed that an obviously fake story got posted and is being treated as if it was real.
because people want to feel good, not bad.
and if you try to make them feel bad, they will simple hate you.
It’s called the orphan crushing machine.
People celebrate that one orphan has been saved from being crushed by the orphan crushing machine. No one questions that we have an orphan crushing machine. No one acknowledges that the machine is of our own creation. No one realizes that we could stop and dismantle the machine at any point. Because we have always had an orphan crushing machine. There’s a prophecy that we will lose everything and it will all collapse if the orphan crushing machine is stopped. The prophecy was written by those who made the machine.
So people celebrate one orphan was saved, but how dare you suggest we dismantle the orphan crushing machine. So it goes unacknowledged.
you suppose there is a world in which no such machine could ever exist.
there isn’t. this is simple a throught experiment.
in the real world there will always be poverty, and there are plenty of folks in the real world who tell you they are in poverty, when they are not.
Oh no, the machine is not poverty. If you think the machine refers to poverty you don’t understand the metaphor.
As people all too familiar with The Orphan Crushing Machine, it’s nice reading a plausible story about one person acting against its grain.
It’s okay though. The very next story on the feed is probably focused on the machine itself - probably something about a capacity increase, or new motors or blades.
Because we cannot forget to pull one another up when we have a higher perch.
Yeah, we still need prosocial behaviors on the individual level regardless of what wider economic system we have.
The use praise for prosocial behaviors as an excuse for a broken system is mostly a third world problem, with the USA at the helm.
Because there wouldn’t be a ruling class if it were different.
“Thank you for making MY MOMMY happy”? Ungrateful brat! YOU were supposed to be happy about the soggy cake she carried through the rain. I know you wanted a vanilla cupcake instead, but you can’t make demands while being poor. At least your mommy was able to sell half of it to the neighbours to get you paper and crayons for your pathetic message. Now fuck off. Geeze.
everybody walk the dinosaur
The wealth in this post is far more than any billionaire could ever muster.
I hope we find our way back to humanity before its too late.
We’re all still here. We’ve just been duped into letting the wrong people run the show.
