I dont understand why Israel, deeply reliant on US military assistance for its defense, also routinely humiliates the US in public.
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They are busy drawing up plans for their new beachfront condo in Gaza.
International courts have told Israel to stop many times and they rarely, if ever, listen. Why would this time be different?
My father: High school diploma, homeowner, family man, good retirement.
Me: Good STEM degree, can't afford home, can't afford family, can't afford retirement.
This article (and you): Why would social media do this?
I would start with MLK, collected essays, no one writes about protest more eloquently.
A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn gives a great broad overview.
Death in the Haymarket by James Green is a great history of the first decades of the labor movement.
Doris Kearns Goodwin's Leadership in Turbulent Times goes in depth on LBJ and the civil rights movement.
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau for the classic philosopher's take.
We've Got People by Ryan Grim details the successes and failures of the movement in the last decade.
You should educate yourself on the history of protest. The media has always been a serious impediment. There was never an "entire population" uniting or a "simple goal that others could get behind". It was always extremely difficult. It often looked hopeless. Many people were killed in the streets, and others were brave enough to replace them.
Overall I think feeling helpless in the face of monumental challenges is normal. But closing your eyes and telling yourself "nothing can ever change, so why bother" is self-soothing and pathetic.
Things can change, and you can be a part of that positive change if you put in real effort.
What are we gonna do, vote?
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal" - Emma Goldman
In the last 100 years, protest movements have given us women's suffrage, workers rights including the weekend and overtime pay, gay rights, civil rights, etc. History shows us that we can have positive change, but it's not as easy as just voting.
We can see right now how protest movements are moderating the Democrat's support of Israeli war crimes.
But don't you feel a responsibility to the rest of the world?
Say if, for example, your tax dollars were funding an ongoing genocide and starvation campaign, wouldnt you feel a bit responsible to change that?
Only 2 months until the US gets its emergency pier running. I'm sure those starving children can wait.
Prohibition creates a black market, which in turn creates cartels, violence, unregulated and sometimes tainted product, it eliminates tax revenue, bolsters an oppressive police force, etc etc.
I believe the best model to deal with these hard drugs is legalization with heavy regulation.
There have been a handful of good studies on the harms of drugs over the years, and they all published the same conclusion: The recreational drugs that are most harmful (both to society and to the user) are heroin, meth, and alcohol.
Just like heroin, alcohol is not gentle, nice, or not a big deal.
Why do you think one is socially encouraged and the other two are demonized?
The prohibition model was a failure for alchohol, and it's a failure for heroin and meth too.
"Dont even bother trying to educate those idiots" seems like a horrible strategy, both for electoral politics and for society in general.
You're right that there are some cultists who are irredeemable, but there are many more on the fringes who can be helped.