Realistically, what are your options? Protesting and being pepper sprayed, locked-up and fired from your job. That does not make their suffering any more endurable and it certainly won't end it.

In my book, your behavior is morally at least neutral.

i think its important that im uncomfortable

+1 on that

For people that had been following the conflict and the injustices done to the people of Palestine, it was really surprising to see the crowd supporting Israel lose control of the narrative after october 7.

It was amazing how so many bottom up content creators were able to overrun the people at the top. I’m worried they will be able to get the cat into the bag again.

For example I did my part on Reddit, but with the recent overhaul there I’m out. Of course the take over of tiktok by Ellison is legendary, but there will always be alternatives as long as the whole internet hasn’t been turned into a draconian web of surveillance.

I know that conondrum, it is similar with lots of other geoworldpolitical fails, the climate crisis, poverment, human cruelty. I try to be a good person and also give away money i can spare. I cannot give everything up and join "letzte generation" and risk going to prison because of my family (in germany jailing protestors is on a completely different page). I want to partake some more in local politics, but i fear people still vote stupid.

If in 50 years im asked what i was doing during this time, im sure to dissapoint and be viewed as an enabler of these horrors

The people who say that shit are the same kind who would say all Germans were nazis. That's generally not considered a couth opinion and is rarely tolerated

The Japanese Americans sitting in internment camps weren't responsible for the Nanjing Massacre or Unit 731.

You're not personally responsible for what Israel is doing to Palestine and Lebanon, or even for what the US did in Iran. There's nothing you can do to stop it, beyond voting.

I'll amend what I said. If you're an eligible voter and you either voted for trump and congressional republicans, or chose not to vote against them, then you share partial responsibility. Otherwise, you're just as frustrated, hopeless, and powerless as the rest of us. That's not a moral failing.

I was thinking earlier this year, that it is immoral to pay taxes right now. The only thing that money goes towards is causing strife elsewhere. We have to take out loans to do anything useful or productive domestically.

Yeah, I'm in a similar position. I've already seen enough gore for one lifetime. I appreciate those who still have the emotional fortitude to go through this stuff and tell us what we need to know, it's just not something I can do right now.

Your skepticism is understandable and justified, but unfortunately it is precisely this skepticism that Israel knows how to exploit.

Not only does this criminal state invest billions in influencing public opinion—specifically targeting legacy media outlets believed to be reputable—but it also systematically kills journalists who attempt to provide independent reporting not controlled by Israel.

They are evidently pursuing a strategy so unscrupulous that it is absolutely unprecedented in recent human history. For obvious reasons, there are few reliable sources on this, but these older, scientifically collected data should give an impression of the sheer scale of the problem.

I’ll just copy a comment here that I posted more than a year ago—not the slightest thing has changed in the meantime; quite the contrary, since the U.S. continues to shield the criminal regime of Israel and thereby actively supports the genocide of the Palestinians:

Israel deliberately kills journalists, as evidenced by the fact that more journalists have been killed in Gaza in the last two years "than in the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined".

Source: Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs - News Graveyards: How Dangers to War Reporters Endanger the World (full paper here)

Edit: Fixed the link to the full paper as the url changed since my original comment.

That's a perverse choice of URL.

Really? Its pretty common. Less common than nsfw, but still. Guess you're one of today's lucky ten thousand.

r/eyebleach was a great place to go after stumbling on a nsfl post. I wonder if there is a Lemmy equivalent... Gonna go check.

Found a few communities, most only have a few posts, this one has the most at 32.

!eyebleach@wayfarershaven.eu

Loads for me.
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