To be fair, that grey tree trunk looked a lot like a road

If he yells “free Palestine” while doing it, that means he’s associating himself with others who support a free Palestine. And that means other people won’t want to associate themselves with them.

I feel like this is very obvious but people seem unwilling to acknowledge it. Because they view this guy as on their side. But he’s on the side of narcissists, not people who are effective at saving Palestinian lives. He didn’t think at all about whether this will save or cost Palestinian lives.

I feel like the free Palestine movement in particular needs to understand this: if you want to save Palestinian lives, you need to convince people. And you don’t convince people by shooting at them, or by justifying people who shoot at them. Think about it: do you see Coke murdering Pepsi supporters as part of a marketing campaign? No. Because the people they hire for marketing are paid a lot of money to actually succeed. Instead they associate coke with positive things, by bringing in celebrities, and generally portraying coke drinkers as cool people.

You should try being more like coke. Sorry if this sounds belittling, but I feel like it needs to be said because free Palestine people seem to think the best strategy is to piss off the people you’re trying to convince. And that has never worked once in the history of mankind.

Killing is only justified if it saves lives. Anyone can see this act will cost lives on both sides. And 1000x as many on the Palestinian side.

Let’s be real, this guy wanted to be a badass and get praise and attention. And he doesn’t care how many die because of that.

It’s not that no one cares, it’s that people who do care don’t want to be associated with others who care like this guy.

Just as the tide of public opinion was turning against Israel. That guy probably got a few hundred thousand Palestinians killed.

It wouldn’t be a Trump administration without reality TV drama. That harms millions of people.

That overly simplistic view of things is a great way to be totally ineffective, if not countereffective, at keeping Palestinian kids alive.

You have one party that’s a mix of pro Israel and people who question Israel. You have another party that’s basically anti Arab Nazis who are totally supportive of murdering civilians. If your primary target is the people who debate supporting Israel as opposed to the people who have an actual plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza and replace it with fancy hotels and condos (while deporting anyone they can who disagrees), you’re actually harming Palestinian life expectancy.

Right now I don’t think there will be a Palestinian people in 50 years because pretty much everyone who claims to stand up for them, from Hamas to US based protesters, seems to be glad to harm them in pursuit of vice signalling.

Well not most stocks, but Tesla is notorious for not be valued according to sales. There’s multiple stock analysts (Wedbush and Ark Invest in particular) who continuously predict that Tesla will have trillions in revenue in the future due to some sort of maga space magic and as long as enough people buy into that, current sales don’t matter.

Or vote against the one party (starts with an R) that continues to make the duopoly happen by banning RCV, and for the party (starts with a D) that’s far more likely to implement RCV.

The party The people that vote in the primaries for the party that claims to be “for the people” keeps putting centrists in charge.

Most people don’t vote in the Democratic primaries. Did you?

I mean it’s easy to say these were the good guys and they were killing the bad guys so it was great. But look at it without that context and it’s pretty hard to justify. Sure, if Mussolini would’ve been put on trial the result would’ve been the same. But his mistress?

If we assume the first round goes the same, but without a spoiler effect third parties would do better in the first round.

fighting fascism effectively would have entailed hanging Trump after J6.

And how would that happen? After all, the Supreme Court gave him immunity, and all Democrats controlled was the presidency. So you’re saying Joe Biden should’ve told the Supreme Court and every other court to suck it, and used I assume the military to arrest and execute Trump while skipping due process?

I don’t think that’s fighting fascism. That’s implementing it.

What needed to happen was for Trump to not win a second time. Had he died at home peacefully we wouldn’t be in the shit right now, and we wouldn’t have even needed to do the fascism ourselves to stop it. People just needed to fucking stop the fascist from winning the election.

Number of their own people disappeared for speech. If people aren’t allowed to even speak about changing things, then there’s no hope of improvement.

And yes, Lemmy is banned in China.

Instant runoff voting, then third parties

Now that the greater evil has taken power, you never talk about actually fighting it

We did fight it, and won, in 2020. In 2024 a few people stopped fighting, so we lost. And now the people who were complaining about Biden being evil are being deported for speaking their mind.

E.g: The wage gap myth is still being propagate by feminists, there are open letters signed by democrats demanding that men shouldn’t get fair trial.

These are 2 different things. The first (gender gap) is a statistic that can be explained as due to either sexism, sexism-related culture, or non-sexism, but regardless has nothing to do with hating men. Instead it’s point out alleged unequal treatment, which is the opposite of a hate-based movement.

The second is something that would be evidence of a hate-filled movement, but I’m 99.99999% sure isn’t actually happening. I did google it, I got nothing. So you need to provide a source on that one.

The left is shockingly asleep about how bad this is. X still is the single most important platform for driving narratives about the news and politics. And it’s still important in part because Democrats and the left as a whole have been lethargic in leaving it. The fact that it’s blatantly being used to tilt the national political discussion in whatever direction Elon wants was probably one of many keys to getting Trump elected in 2024, and should be regarded as an ongoing emergency for Democrats and the left.

If this is AI it’s pretty good. These are the Flatirons in Boulder, CO.

It feels like every CEO on earth thinks they need to adopt AI or fall behind, but they have no idea what to use AI for so they’re just ramming it into use cases that no one asked for.