• @[email protected]
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    646 months ago

    Protest for or against whatever you think is important and not what others think is important.

    Also usually people can protest for or against more than one thing.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      416 months ago

      ppl who disagree with your second paragraph confuse me to no end

      literally the “i like waffles”, “OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES?” meme

    • @JeffreyOrange
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      Even if they did accomplish a lot and the person is just talking about never reading it in headlines they look at every other week.

  • @essell
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    26 months ago

    Kinda misses the point, no?

    The question needs an answer, even if the person asking also has their own questions to answer.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      356 months ago

      bad faith questions like this don’t deserve an answer, no

      “you like waffles? so why do i see you eating pancakes right now”

      • @essell
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        136 months ago

        Okay, yeah. If it’s in bad faith I totally agree.

        Still, I do have to wonder why some genocides are more important to people than others. There’s a genuine question there too

        • @[email protected]OP
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          116 months ago

          thanks for understanding haha. and yes there is probably a context where someone could ask this question in good faith but that’s not the context of this post :)

        • @[email protected]
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          For example what is it about Palestine that is driving the current set of protests that the last 5 years in Ethiopia lacked?

          In this case I would assume it’s the fact that many western nations are involved with Israel in some way.

          • @[email protected]
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            I’ll do you one better, what is it about Palestine this time?

            Israel’s been getting away with genocide for decades, of course none of them see a problem with finishing the job now. What has suddenly changed such that the American public are finally able to realize the apartheid government they’ve been financially supporting all these years is actually evil?

            • @[email protected]
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              96 months ago

              People are better informed.

              Are you upset that people are protesting now? Sure, they should have been protesting before but unless you have a time machine there’s nothing we can do about that.

    • @[email protected]
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      No, the question doesn’t need an answer.

      If I were to ask you, “why’d you murder that guy?” when you didn’t murder anyone.

      Say yes, and you’ve admitted to a crime you didn’t commit.

      Say no, and I can say, “well that’s exactly what a murder would say!”

      Meanwhile, I’ve (in this hypothetical scenario) murdered lots of people.

      Sometimes it’s best just to tell people to fuck off.

      • @essell
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        16 months ago

        I think attacking the person asking as a way to Dodge a question is not helpful or constructive.

        • @[email protected]
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          It’s not supposed to be constructive or helpful. What is helpful is saving your time and mental health by avoiding the traps these people try to set.

          • @essell
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            That makes sense in the context of a debate on social media.

            In the real political world where lives are changed, ended or saved, it really matters why so many people don’t take action on genocide in a consistent way.

            If we knew why, we could make the world a better place, we could maybe save a lot of Lives.

            And that goes for a lot of the big questions in life, why are people so inconsistent?

    • Neato
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      16 months ago

      Hypocrites shouldn’t be taken seriously. If someone professes X should be done and is choosing not to do it, they belie their own stance.

      • @[email protected]
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        People put far too much emphasis on hypocrisy. Being a hypocrite has nothing to do with whether you are right or wrong.

        If a murderer says “murdering is wrong”, does him being a hypocrite make that statement any less true?

  • @SpunkyMcGoo
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    16 months ago

    the banding on this jpeg made me think my OLED had blown up

    • @[email protected]OP
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      16 months ago

      how high do you have your contrast set lmao? i turned my brightness all the way up and i can barely identify any artifacts

      • @SpunkyMcGoo
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        sorry i didn’t see your message, but it’s an OLED, it has the most contrast by definition