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  • Talking to the media on a regular basis about what is happening in Palestine is ineffective? So it would be more effective to let them control the narrative? It would be more effective to not keep people informed? You really believe that? Because the near total lack of reporting on the genocide going on in Sudan sure doesn’t seem to be helping matters there. Especially since I’ve had to let more than one person on Lemmy know that yes, there is a genocide going on in Sudan even if they don’t want to know about any genocide but the single one they are laser-focused on.

    I am trying to get people to do the bare minimum of taking action beyond just pointing fingers at each other and accusing each other of supporting genocide. I guess you would prefer they continue to do nothing but that?



  • Worked for whom? Not queer people. They couldn’t get married until 2015. Sodomy was not federally legalized until 2003. You could be put in prison for having sex with another person of your gender before that. Even if it was in the privacy of your own home and was by mutual consent if someone wished to press charges. And vast numbers of people tried to prevent both of those things from becoming the law of the land.

    They were norms and they were not good and I had no respect for the people who felt that sort of oppression should be maintained. And I told them so.




  • Germany had a reckoning after the war and plenty of people were able to admit that yes, in fact, they were Nazis and that was wrong of them. And then they tried to make things better.

    Because they realized that maybe all they did was support the Nazis by wearing an armband, but that still made them a Nazi and that made them complicit.

    Plenty more were never able to admit it but also were never willing to talk about what they did during the war out of shame and embarrassment. Because they also knew they were complicit.

    All of these people who voted for Trump did not just sit down at a table with a Nazi. They went out of their way to go to a voting booth or sit down and fill out and mail a form to choose a man who made absolutely no secret about his Nazi ideals. The roots are very, very deep.