This exactly. It’s a room full of people wiping the floor with single tissue papers while one guy is spraying the floor with a fire hose. But hey, at least they get to feel good about themselves because they can tell themselves “I did my part”. What else could they do?
That’s all well and good, but relying on individual action to solve systemic problems still doesn’t work. Systemic problems require system-level solutions. We didn’t get rid of the hole in the ozon layer because everyone individually did their part; we got there through regulations, laws, and action on the level of governments.
So what I’m supposed to kiss your feet because the owning class is raking in bags of cash off of you driving up prices on pretty much everything, while we’re left with you getting shitfaced and acting like complete assholes? Thanks I guess.
Sure, but imagine him raping someone and yelling “take that you filthy <some slur for jew>”. The word antisemitic would be in every headline and there would be questions in parliament. And to be clear, that’s the appropriate reaction! It would be really nice if we could extend the privilege (apparently) to muslims as well.
And regarding the information being there when you read the article: Not everyone clicks through to read the article. In fact, I’ll wager that the vast majority doesn’t. As such, headlines have a huge impact on shaping people’s perceived reality. It’s why people have a problem with headlines voiced passively, like “bullet finds way into human’s body”. If you read the article you’ll find that the bullet was fired by an Israeli soldier, and that the human was a 5 year old Palestinian, and that the body part the bullet ended up in was their skull, so all the information is there, so no bias, no lying, right?
But Waymo taxis are demonstrably safer than human drivers.
… says research paid for by Waymo.
I know critical thinking skills are in short supply these days, but come on.
It feels like you’re saying that this legislation is stupid because some people will smoke anyway. And I think that’s not a fair argument. I don’t think anyone claims that this will get rid of smoking entirely, much like outlawing murder will not get rid of all murders. But I do think this will reduce the number of smokers born after 2008.
If you reduce the number of opportunities someone has to start smoking, you will reduce the number of smokers. At least, this makes intuitive sense to me. I don’t have any data to back it up. But neither do you, so we’re tied there I guess. Or do you? I’m happy to change my mind on this.
A year ago people respected the US military.
Sorry what? The one that invaded Iraq?
As long as they come home in a body bag, I’m happy.
And the problem with doing the right thing for the wrong reason is that next time it’s not going to be the right thing
Nice, that does address the core point. Two problems.
First, the idea that “next time it’s not going to be the right thing” has not been established at all. I mean, clearly it’s possible to do the right thing for the wrong reasons at least once, so it is not at all unimaginable that it could happen twice, three times, or as many times in a row as you’d like.
Secondly, you have given no indication what these “wrong reasons” are, in the case of Spain restricting its air space to impede the illegal assault on Iran. Is it to appease voters who are against this? Because that’s literally just how democracy works.
Except it doesn’t stop the genocide at all
So this is unrelated to the core point, but let’s talk about it anyway. This reduces the avenues America has to send military aid to Israel in the illegal assault on Iran, so it very clearly does do somehing to impede the assault on Iran. And a reduction in military aid to Israel is a step in the direction of ending the genocide, so that’s a nice extra. Although I’m not sure why we’re talking about the genocide. Even though it’s related, clearly a restricted air space to impede the illegal assault on Iran is more directly related to the assault on Iran than it is to the genocide.
“I have black friends” level copium
Ah, so you didn’t miss the core point. So could you maybe try to address it?
That’s manifestly incorrect. A pew poll conducted in march/april 2024 found that 39% of israelis believe the actions of the IDF in Gaza were “about right”, and 34% think those actions have “not gone far enough”. I’m no mathematician, but 73% is not quite a minority afaik.
In addition, in a nation that is at least a democracy for the superior race, I think it’s fair to lay at least some of the blame on the electorate for the governments they elect. And for 77 years, every single government they have elected have committed atrocity after atrocity against the Palestinian people. I find it highly unlikely that for three quarters of a century, in a partial democracy, some minority has always won, every single time, despite the good intentions of the majority. It’s just a completely incredible narrative.
I’m sure they had conflicts, they’re human. But the colonizers had a greater impact than internal conflict ever could have. Again, 49.5 million out of 50. And your comment still reeks of this idea that the colonizers coming in was somehow a neutral or ok thing. It wasn’t. It’s one of the greatest atrocities committed in the history of mankind.
I think you underestimate the magnitude of the genocide of the natives. It completely dwarfs the holocaust. Some researchers found it had a noticable effect on the temperature of the planet. About 49.5 million were killed.
Also your comment reeks of “they’re savages!”
Oh, Pissraelis are affected emotionally alright. They celebrate these atrocities.
And people do feed homeless people nefariously, it’s a real problem for real people. Mixing in moulded food. Filling sandwiches with toothpaste.
You misunderstand the premise. Spain isn’t mixing toothpaste in proverbial sandwiches here. They closed their air space for air traffic intended for the illegal assault on Iran. That’s a good thing. It’s a tuna melt sandwich, no tooth paste, in the hands of the homeless.
for the wrong reason.
I don’t see why this matters to you at all. If someone feeds the homeless nefariously, then let them. The homeless are getting fed. If someone stops the holocaust because it allows them to cement their hegemony, or because they got paid for it, whatever! If it stops the holocaust, I’m happy.
Framework is a company. But yes, supporting an open fascist is a bad thing (I cannot believe this needs saying), even if s company does it, which is why people are so upset about it.
I feel like you’ve come around to the point that DHH is a fascist. That’s good to see at least.
That’s completely fair. Individuals did do a lot to change governments minds for the ozone layer. However, there are a lot of people who think that buying into oil companies’ propaganda and recycling or driving electric cars or whatever is the way to drive such systemic change, sadly. Instead of course (as the oil companies intended), all it does is make people feel good about themselves so they’re not motivated to do anything to actually solve the problem.