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Now bombard senators and reps about Palestine, the global South, Africa, Asia, and domestically, rent caps, grocery caps, single payer, comprehensive health, living wages, safe working and living conditions, fossil fuels, climate extinction, taxing TF out of the ultrawealthy and mega corps, chemicals out of food, water, air...
"What about" is a fantastic way to breed apathy when people are protesting something. You're doing nothing for any of those causes with this comment. You're making things worse for all of those causes, plus the one this post is about. And your comment only tangentially relates to the Community this post is in...
But how can I be expected to sign the SKG petition, while people in West Sahara live under Morocco’s unjust occupation?
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\sThe person who made the image had a cause they cared about and did something about it. If you care about those causes you should absolutely do the same.
Otherwise you just sound like you're lashing out at people who are doing something about something, while you are doing nothing about anything.
By the way, how many of those causes have you called your representative about?
I'm active in my community and I'm sure my congressional representatives wish I'd move, as the ones I had prior.
It's odd how so many are quick to add their personal interpretations.
Right, it's not like that's what you immediately did in your first comment.
You also didn't answer the question as to how many of those causes you called your representatives about.
I asked that people be as passionate for things I've mentioned. Any one will do.
Every. Single. Issue.
No, you didn't. You've bombarded them with a long list of "whatabouts" that is only going to exhaust them, not move them to action.
Everyone has their path into activism and politicization. Last time this happened was when wikileaks got blocked by visa/mastercard, next time, with this experience it may be one of those causes.
Yeah they're starting with something that hit close to home without feeling like they'll get disappeared or ignored.
There's always a gap between "Someone should do something about this" and "I should do something about this".
Once that line gets crossed, plans like OP's post start.
It's somebody else's problem.
World peace, end hunger are not entertaining as "How to get an A from your professor - sorority/fraternity party edition" (coming to iOS and Android).
You have underestimated the power of porn games.
honestly there needs to be a git project that I can clone that uses a local LLM to auto call all of the senators, congressmen, reps, whoever. Also call all of the visa/mastercard callcenters non stop. And I mean non stop. Bonus points to use public figure voices. As in use AI to do our bidding.
It's already here, so...
What do those have to do with my video games?? I just wanna ~~grill~~ game!
Nice empathy.
It was sarcasm. I really dislike that the only thing young men will protest about is saving video games.
It's not the only thing people are protesting about is just the only thing people are protesting about in this thread.
You're really determined to be angry about this aren't you
You know cuz no one's been protesting about Palestine for the last whole bloody year have they, oh no that's definitely not been happening. <<< That bit sarcasm just in case you didn't get that.
Thank you for clarifying. Poe's law is alive and well!
Getting downvoted for wanting people to advocate for better living conditions, way to go .world!
It's amazing that you posted this after having a fairly good explanation as to why it's not a good idea to conflate too many things together.
If you string too many things to a cause you dilute all of them. Especially because MasterCard and Visa have nothing to do with what's happening in Palestine so linking the two causes together just weakens both of them.
but Maeve said to call the senators about these, not mastercard. and you don't need to call them about all of these topics at once either.
But the Visa thing is an international issue that can be dealt with by contacting Visa. They're talking about contacting US senators, which is obviously not an international thing, it's an American thing. I know a lot of Americans have difficulty understanding that America doesn't equal the whole world, but come on.
Go do that too but don't try and link it to this because it's not even remotely related.
I don't see how that makes the same method unsuitable. and no, I'm not an American, and I never have been there.
It makes a difference because it's about having an effect.
American politics is really fucked, seriously it's utterly beyond repair it's totally corrupt. No one can achieve anything in that failure of a nation state.
Meanwhile we might actually be able to affect real political change here and I don't want American politics all over an actual worthwhile cause.
If you want to advocate for American causes please go create your own goddamn thread, I promise not to involved in it.
You can replace congressional representatives with MPs or whatever is appropriate.
Our priorities are showing.
Chemicals in food and water? You think you can live without chemicals?
Please. You should know what I mean.
Considering that "chemicals" is such a loaded word now with ignorant and dangerous people like RFK Jr in positions of power, maybe get specific.
PS also Epstein files
Definitely