autotldr@lemmings.world
on 13 Nov 2023 15:30
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Greta Thunberg was interrupted as she addressed a climate protest in Amsterdam on Sunday after inviting a Palestinian and an Afghan woman on stage.
The Swedish activist was speaking to a crowd of tens of thousands in the Dutch capital before the country heads to the polls in a general election next week.
Earlier proceedings had been interrupted as a small group of activists at the front of the crowd waved Palestinian flags and chanted pro-Palestinian slogans.
The speeches on stage were the culmination of a mass protest that saw tens of thousands of people march through the streets of Amsterdam, urging for more action to tackle climate change.
Political leaders including former European Union climate chief Frans Timmermans, who now leads a centre-left, two-party bloc in the election campaign, later addressed the crowd in a square behind the landmark Rijksmuseum.
Event organiser, the Climate Crisis Coalition, said in a statement: "We live in a time of crises, all of which are the result of the political choices that have been made.
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theKalash@feddit.ch
on 13 Nov 2023 15:33
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Muddling up these two issues is so very stupid … just keep the climate message on climate, how fucking hard is that?
DarkGamer@kbin.social
on 13 Nov 2023 15:34
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Seriously, no matter which side she takes, she's going to lose a lot of support.
Sunforged@lemmy.ml
on 13 Nov 2023 15:38
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The driving force of climate change is the same reason for the military industrial complexe. Profits over people will always lead to these outcomes. You gotta be able to acknowledge and discuss this stuff.
DarkGamer@kbin.social
on 13 Nov 2023 15:47
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It didn't seem like she was opposing the military industrial complex in general so much as she was opposing Israel specifically, showing solidarity with those in opposition to them, and implying they are oppressors opposed to freedom and justice.
Hamas are terrorists but the Israeli government’s hands are far from clean. You cant kill 10,000 palestinians in a matter of weeks, half of which are children, and maintain the moral high ground. And that is ignoring how modern Israel came about through the displacement of millions.
DarkGamer@kbin.social
on 13 Nov 2023 16:43
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Who has the moral high ground in this conflict is a matter of opinion, you might be surprised what you would support if you and your loved ones were under constant threat of violence with no end in sight. Hamas has leveraged public distaste for civilian casualties quite effectively, maximizing it by hiding among them, and leaving Israel without other viable strategies to depose them.
I find myself far more sympathetic to Israel's cause because they weren't the ones that provoked this, their opponents clearly have less concern for civilian lives than they do but simply lack the means, Palestinian factions openly advocate for genocide of Jews, and have remained belligerent and unwilling to sue for viable peace for the last 70 years despite having lost every war they've waged on Israel. Israel has historically shown a great deal of restraint dealing with them for a very long time, but each wanton massacre moves them closer to seeking safety at any cost, even if that cost is many civilian lives.
It's easy to feel sympathy for the underdog, but in this case, the underdog is explicitly genocidal, expects to be treated differently than they treat their opponents, which they constantly provoke with guerrilla attacks, while remaining unwilling to compromise for peace. I'm at a loss as to what other options are available to Israel that provides them meaningful safety without sacrificing their own people or national sovereignty.
xkforce@lemmy.world
on 13 Nov 2023 16:48
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Israel exists because millions were displaced from their homes to create it. Settlers continually encroach further. And everyone that lived there is supposed to roll over and let it happen with no resistance whatsoever. Then there’s the current situation which is to put it lightly, a humanitarian disaster. Over a million gazans were essentially told to flee to the south or risk being bombed. And dont get me started on how journalists are being treated. Do not give me this poor innocent Israel horseshit.
DarkGamer@kbin.social
on 13 Nov 2023 16:54
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The Nakba land was annexed because they declared war on Israel and lost. It's almost like there's consequences for trying to murder your neighbors. They might not want you as neighbors anymore.
DarkGamer@kbin.social
on 13 Nov 2023 17:44
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This conflict is unusual in that Palestine doesn't seem to care about the realpolitik or their odds regarding military solutions. The popular sentiment is that Palestinians want one state that they control, (and deny Jews rights in,) or no deal and the terrorist attacks continue. For obvious reasons this is not viable.
It seems most of the options that remain involve creating more distance from their belligerent enemy, which means Palestine loses even more land; unless they become willing to lay down arms and sue for peace, that is.
As usual the people against israel try to hold them to a different standard. I mean when has any nation that declared war and got their ass kicked lost any territories as a consequence? /s.
For them, the natural consequences that have applied through history in other conflicts are somehow unjustified when they benefit israel.
They are, and the IDF decided to bomb hospitals instead.
I’m no Hamas fan, but you’re really doing some mental gymnastics if you think that’s an appropriate response.
DarkGamer@kbin.social
on 13 Nov 2023 17:55
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That's certainly a Pro-Hamas biased way of interpreting recent events.
Hamas has been hiding in hospitals and firing at IDF forces from within them, and at least one of these bombings was caused by Hamas allies.
SirStumps@lemmy.world
on 13 Nov 2023 19:36
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I’m a Veteran and I have seen how terrorists use their fellow man and innocent shields. This is a tactic that terrorists use against their enemy. If you attack back you look bad and if you don’t your people die. It’s a lose lose situation but in the end Hamas is using people as shields and put the IDF in a situation where they had to choose their own well being over strangers.
Unfortunately this is a terrible situation for the people of Gaza but Hamas seemed to have pushed the last button. This is a situation where Hamas needs to find out the extent of Israels wrath and learn a lesson because if the lesson isn’t learned they will just do it again.
Glytch@ttrpg.network
on 13 Nov 2023 20:18
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Hamas has been hiding in hospitals and firing at IDF forces from within them
You got a source on that that can’t be traced back to the IDF press office?
DarkGamer@kbin.social
on 13 Nov 2023 21:05
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You got a source on [Hamas hiding in hospitals] that can’t be traced back to the IDF press office?
FaceDeer@kbin.social
on 13 Nov 2023 18:47
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Because giving up has worked so well for Palestinians before.
I don't support Hamas' actions, but I too understand them. The Palestinians have been abused for generations with no good way out in sight for them. They don't have the power to make any real decisions or changes to the status quo here. It's up to the side with power to figure out some way to make this work out better.
DarkGamer@kbin.social
on 13 Nov 2023 21:56
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I also understand them, but to get into that headspace I must ignore many realities of their realpolitik situation and get into a mindset of anger, revenge and cold-blooded score settling over perceived injustices, remaining incensed over what one believes was taken from them and continues to be taken from them.
While I understand it, it only leads to counter-productive places that ultimately work against their interests. It ignores the complicated causes, historical ambiguities, and unpleasant facts regarding this conflict in favor of a one-sided interpretation. It is a narrative of victimhood and defiance that forgets how often they were the bully and instigator before they were the underdogs. The harsh reality is that at some level might does in fact make right, at least when it comes to international geopolitics. Ignoring this brought Palestine to here. They are an MMA fighter who started a fight, was put into an inescapable submission hold, refuses to tap out, and there is no ref who has authority to end the fight. And still, they keep headbutting the fighter that could break their arm at any moment.
There is a way out: Tap out, because no matter how righteous one's cause is, it doesn't change the fundamentals of the situation. How many lives is pride, perceived righteousness over a lost cause, worth? They could return the hostages, pacify, sue for peace, and get back freedoms and rights and safety at the cost of lands they were never getting back anyway.
It seems like the side with power has tried everything they can reasonably do to achieve peace in a way that retains their national autonomy and keeps their people safe as possible. So far, nothing has worked.
FaceDeer@kbin.social
on 13 Nov 2023 22:58
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They could return the hostages, pacify, sue for peace, and get back freedoms and rights and safety at the cost of lands they were never getting back anyway.
And who's going to ensure that they actually do get those freedoms and rights and safety back once this "deal" has been made? Frankly, I don't believe the Israelis will ever give them back anything once it's been taken away. There's zero good faith to be had any more. The Israelis want them to completely cease to exist and they're just probing around looking for the right way to make that happen without completely losing the support of their international sugar daddies.
The Palestinians also want the Israelis to cease to exist, of course. But as you have so eloquently put it, the Israelis are the ones who have the power to actually make the choices here. So I place the lion's share of the blame for failing to find a compromise on them.
DarkGamer@kbin.social
on 13 Nov 2023 23:31
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And who's going to ensure that they actually do get those freedoms and rights and safety back once this "deal" has been made?
Any guarantees must be negotiated for. I'd say at this point releasing the hostages is a prerequisite for the war to end and that negotiation process to begin.
Frankly, I don't believe the Israelis will ever give them back anything once it's been taken away. There's zero good faith to be had any more.
As in, they don't trust Israel to adhere to terms of a treaty they agreed to? Well, they could invite in the UN or the US or some other neutral party like Egypt to verify that terms are met, with legal consequences if they are not.
Perhaps they can negotiate for some lands back, perhaps not, but I doubt they will get anything like the sweetheart deal they declared war over in '48. Palestine still has more to lose and have very little leverage so I'd expect any viable treaty to be written with this in mind; concessions will have to be made.
Keep in mind that the alternative is that current trends continue and they risk losing everything.
The Israelis want them to completely cease to exist and they're just probing around looking for the right way to make that happen without completely losing the support of their international sugar daddies.
That's not my take, they seem more like they are frustrated that their regularly and overwhelmingly-defeated enemy refuses to pacify themselves despite taking ever more from them and building a massive security apparatus around them. None of it has worked, so I suspect they will continue annexing more lands to create distance because wiping them out isn't an option, whether you think it's because of "international sugar daddies," or their own history of being subjected to genocidal extermination, Israel is playing by a different and more humane playbook, even if it is still quite bloody.
I place the lion's share of the blame for failing to find a compromise on them.
It's their fault for not compromising with an enemy who is uncompromising? One of their demands is driving them into the sea, how can one compromise with this, especially when they hold all the cards?
FaceDeer@kbin.social
on 14 Nov 2023 00:10
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I'd say at this point releasing the hostages is a prerequisite for the war to end and that negotiation process to begin.
So they should only begin to negotiate once their only bargaining chips have been given away?
Again, I don't support what Hamas did. But they're not idiots.
SlikPikker@lemmy.ca
on 13 Nov 2023 19:59
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Will the Settlement expansion stop and roll back? No?
If they had left kids alone - even crying over their parents mutilated bodies - I would have supported their action fully.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
on 15 Nov 2023 04:19
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The conflict hasn’t started on October 7th. The conflict started way before Hamas even existed.
dojan@lemmy.world
on 13 Nov 2023 17:22
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It’s seriously hard to take anything pro-Israel seriously knowing that they have a state-sponsored crowdsourced propaganda project where people undertake missions to spread pro-Israel propaganda, and smear Palestine.
Like for all we know your comment could’ve come straight from ACT-IL
DarkGamer@kbin.social
on 13 Nov 2023 18:18
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Yes indeed. Both sides are heavily propagandizing social media so it's good to be skeptical and insist on credible sources. Here's an article about a pro-Palestine disinformation campaign on twitter trying to get Americans to stay out of the conflict, for example. I wouldn't assume everyone who disagrees with you is a paid shill, nor would I assume that those who agree with you aren't; I find it's better to stick to the issues at hand than try to divine the motivations of random internet strangers.
Also, I suspect things are probably better here in that regard than on other platforms, as the feddiverse is still flying under the radar for those seeking to shape public opinion.
I never said anything about paid shill. Here’s a video where someone walks through the app. I don’t think people get paid, but they do earn badges and points and whatnot for spreading propaganda and mass-reporting content that’s posted to the app.
Thing is, I don’t have a horse in this race. Looking on from the outside what’s happening is disgusting, be it using hospitals as shields, thereby endangering people there, or turning off access to water to over two million people. There’s no right side here.
There’s also fuck all I can do about it so I generally just keep out of things. It’s not my mess to deal with.
PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks
on 13 Nov 2023 19:32
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DarkGamer@kbin.social
on 13 Nov 2023 21:30
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That's fascinating, they crowdsourced and gamified propaganda by weaponizing corporate sensitivity to offensiveness. Thanks for sharing that link, although the host definitely is promoting his own biases while showcasing the app, it was very informative and worth watching. Reading a little more into this, it appears Hamas has adapted to this technique by relying on Telegram to spread their messaging since the other platforms have removed them for extremist content.
This makes me appreciate another advantage of the feddiverse, the mass reporting techniques that this approach relies on to silence dissent might work on profit-driven social media companies, but here mods can use their own discretion rather than prioritizing financial and PR motivations for what gets removed like the for-profit companies have to.
Oh yeah. Caelan definitely have their own biases, they’re quite clearly very left on the political spectrum, but I couldn’t find another video or article where people are going through the app in the same fashion. Search engines mostly gave me rubbish about the ongoing conflict which isn’t at all what I was looking for. Google doesn’t work anymore.
PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks
on 13 Nov 2023 22:37
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intensely_human@lemm.ee
on 13 Nov 2023 18:16
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Israel puts itself in this position by preventing Gazans from having weapons. They want to hold Gazans responsible for Hamas, but they continually and actively prevent the Gazans’ ability to actually take responsibility for their “government”.
zacher_glachl@lemmy.world
on 13 Nov 2023 16:14
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You gotta be able to acknowledge and discuss this stuff.
If the only way to advocate for climate action is to also try and turn people into pacifist commies, we can just stop trying.
edit: the laughable failure to understand basic human psychology in this thread, lmao
Let me put it in simpler terms. I can do the right thing as long as it doesn’t require me to do something very wrong. Then it would be wrong.
intensely_human@lemm.ee
on 13 Nov 2023 18:15
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Money from government contracts is more like a grant than profit.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca
on 13 Nov 2023 21:02
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Because?
intensely_human@lemm.ee
on 14 Nov 2023 04:18
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Because it’s not actual business taking place. Profit is when you produce more value than you consumed, as evidenced by people being willing to pay your price for the goods or services you’re offering.
Government doesn’t willingly buy things in the same way as a consumer or other private entity. It is compelled to by law, and instead of computing actual value in its purchases it seeks minimum cost for a set level of service.
gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world
on 13 Nov 2023 20:08
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Imagine thinking the Middle East, a “tiny region” which also just so happens to be where more than half of all oil used on Earth comes from, is irrelevant to the discussion of climate change.
You probably wouldn’t be so angry if you weren’t having to bend over backwards to make nonsensical arguments like this to defend your nonsensical opinions.
Broodjefissa@lemmy.world
on 13 Nov 2023 20:29
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Besides that i’d really like to know how much these sneseless wars contribute towards further polution. All the jets burning, ground vehicles moving, possibility of nukes
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2023 14:01
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Depends on how many lives are cut short and never become. If one woman were to have had 6 kids who then made another 12 grandchildren, their footprint would be much higher than if a woman never was going to have kids.
Overall it is a dark topic. But ~7 lives to a fighter jet tank of gas if I saw correctly. (28 metric tons per tank) average footprint worldwide is about 4 per person.
The moral of the story I suppose is to send everyone to war on foot, nude, and only hand to hand combat is permitted. Don’t want to figure out the footprint of a sword or hammer. Easier just to say pick up a rock.
Now that that’s sorted, let’s have some tea.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca
on 13 Nov 2023 16:24
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She’s never been afraid to speak her mind. How do we address the issue of climate change, if we turn a blind eye to the suffering of innocent people and children done intentionally for vengeance’s sake?
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
on 13 Nov 2023 16:31
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War is terrible for the climate. All that extra fuel burning, and in machines not designed to do it efficiently
AnarchoDakosaurus@toast.ooo
on 13 Nov 2023 17:42
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Not to mention all the destruction of farms, the poisoning of water sources, all the destroyed vehicles and rotting corpses of men and animals alike laid everywhere.
They will be calling this the 2nd Nakba. Not only is it a massacre of the people, the Palestinians last remaining lands have been salted. Gaza looks like Stalingrad.
It is an entirely man made disaster. Or state made disaster if you will.
intensely_human@lemm.ee
on 13 Nov 2023 18:14
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Well focus is generally useful for getting things done so one way to address climate change would be to stick to climate change discussion at climate change discussion events.
galloog1@lemmy.world
on 13 Nov 2023 20:37
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Nothing builds a coalition as effectively as insisting that you absolutely must include a controversial but completely unrelated topic in the effort.
bradbeattie@lemmy.ca
on 13 Nov 2023 21:26
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Want to sabotage a protest? Encourage advocacy for increasingly tangential issues. Focus splits, folks start disagreeing on new issues, folks start disagreeing on how issues get prioritized, everything falls apart.
Sadly, this doesn’t even require a malicious actor encouraging it. Well-meaning folks see a potentially sympathetic audience for their pet issue and boom.
SamVergeudetZeit@feddit.de
on 13 Nov 2023 23:17
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YES!!!
SamVergeudetZeit@feddit.de
on 13 Nov 2023 23:16
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YES!!!
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
on 14 Nov 2023 12:39
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At some point an acute issue takes precedence over your long term goals. These are pretty wild hyperbole, but I acknowledge I am trying to paint an image.
Let’s say you were an activist for the welfare of cattle. But then you find out chickens are hooked up to a new feed system that increases their weight by 20% but also causes them excruciating neurological pain, to the point the chickens are even trying to peck themselves to death to avoid the torture. Would it not make sense to pivot for a moment to the worse animal cruelty for a while? The cows aren’t going anywhere.
Let’s say you were an activist for climate and a nation state was running towards genociding an entire group of people. Would it not make sense to pivot to the genocide speed run for a while? Climate change isn’t going anywhere.
SamVergeudetZeit@feddit.de
on 13 Nov 2023 23:18
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This is valueless and destructive virtue signaling.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 13 Nov 2023 23:28
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It is extremely valuable. She has a powerful voice and far-reaching influence. She is using her voice to advocate for the voiceless. Israel is an apartheid state, and they must be held accountable for the crimes against humanity they are committing and have historically committed against the people and nation of Palestine.
SamVergeudetZeit@feddit.de
on 13 Nov 2023 23:36
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No as I explained above this is nonsensical virtue signaling.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 13 Nov 2023 23:43
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You can’t just spout off a buzz word as tho it’s an actual argument.
She’s standing with Palestine against those who are mass murdering them. She has powerful influence. Her choosing to say this legitimately will influence public opinion.
SamVergeudetZeit@feddit.de
on 13 Nov 2023 23:51
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No it wont. Greta is the climate lady. And if the climate lady says stuff which i disagress with, i wont listen to the climate lady anymore. I even hate the climate lady now.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 14 Nov 2023 00:00
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Greta is one of the most influential people of her entire generation. She is a powerful orator who has already had major impacts on climate policy around the world, and she has a massive audience.
You’re not the entirety of the world.
SamVergeudetZeit@feddit.de
on 14 Nov 2023 00:10
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We are so lost…
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
on 14 Nov 2023 03:44
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She is a powerful orator who has already had major impacts on climate policy around the world,
I really don’t think she’s as important as you think she is, or anywhere near as influential.
autokludge@programming.dev
on 15 Nov 2023 09:13
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She is a powerful orator who has already had major impacts on climate policy around the world,
I really don’t think she’s as important as you think she is, or anywhere near as influential.
Her influence extends to rustling the jimmies of mainstream media, I get to hear all about it the next day from coworkers over lunch … “did you hear about what she said this time?”
zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 15 Nov 2023 05:39
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Not sure why you think it’s valueless. Bringing up the mere topic of Palestine suffering gets your mic taken away, prosecuted and look at like a Hamas sympathizer. It’s as much virtue signalling as getting arrested blocking the entrance of an oil conference - as in it’s not.
Wars tend to lead to built and natural areas alike getting razed, it’s a huge waste of resources and lives. And what for? Political gain? Money for the Military Industrial Complex? All those vehicles except for drones use fossil fuel, and rightwing governments rallying support over wars definitely don’t give a rat’s ass for the climate. So in summary, the Gaza issue and yhe climate are definitely related.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
on 13 Nov 2023 23:56
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Those are two separate and unrelated issues, and should be treated as such.
seacocker@lemmy.world
on 13 Nov 2023 16:28
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I have come here for a climate demonstration, not a political view
What he really means is that he only wants to hear about one slice of a political view, or he doesn’t understand that climate change is a political subject too.
DarkGamer@kbin.social
on 13 Nov 2023 16:51
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He probably means he disagrees with her about this issue and didn't show up to support a pro-Palestine rally.
BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
on 13 Nov 2023 18:03
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I've been told that if your protest isn't disruptive, it's not really a protest, so I'm sure everyone here will be fully understanding and supportive of this guy for standing up for his beliefs /s
Jaytreeman@kbin.social
on 13 Nov 2023 19:18
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Not all beliefs are created equal. You can respect people without respecting their beliefs.
The point is that people on lemmy (and reddit, and other left leaning forums) tend to dump on people who object to protestors disrupting shit, like closing roads (without a permit), etc.
And then get hypocritical when a protestor does the same thing to counter protest a popular (in this forum) cause.
Don’t get me wrong, I think this was a shitty move. But I also think fucking over completely unrelated people’s days by blocking traffic is also a shit way to conduct a protest.
betheydocrime@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2023 01:56
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I think the difference between these two situations is the disruption of commerce.
Capitalists do not give a shit about protests until the protests start affecting their bottom line. That’s why blocking freeways is such a big deal–it speaks to them in a language that they understand. It’s effective not because John Q Taxpayer can’t get to work on time, but because Corporation Q Capital-owner can’t exploit John’s labor without his butt in his seat and without trucks full of resources coming in regularly. Corporations lose much, much more than regular people do when commerce is disrupted.
Grabbing the microphone like is disruptive, but it does not disrupt commerce. If anything, it shows that his goal is to deplatform someone (someone whose platform is the very reason he is there tonight, by his own admission) or to elevate his own platform.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
on 13 Nov 2023 22:56
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Whoever told you that, stop listening to them. An effective protest is one that expresses your views, and ideally changes people’s minds and builds support for your cause. Disrupting people’s lives is typically counterproductive to actually gaining support.
helenslunch@feddit.nl
on 13 Nov 2023 23:37
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The only way to be heard is to burn down your neighbor’s businesses and rob Target! And if you do anything to protect your livelihood you’re just a right wing nut job!
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
on 13 Nov 2023 23:54
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There are genuinely people who think like that. To be fair, the George Floyd protests/riots changed things in a way that peaceful protest had so far failed to do.
helenslunch@feddit.nl
on 14 Nov 2023 00:37
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Some minor progress was made because of the millions of people who turned out to peacefully protest. Those who rioted and destroyed shit only contributed ammunition to the opposition.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
on 14 Nov 2023 00:39
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I disagree, I think having an entire block burnt down made a lot of people decide they don’t want to see this happen again, in a way a regular protest wouldn’t have.
helenslunch@feddit.nl
on 14 Nov 2023 02:21
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Really? You think people had their businesses burned down and their town destroyed and thought to themselves “boy I hope these people get what they wanted!” or do you think they thought “These people are human garbage and I hope they rot in prison”? Which one of these thought processes makes more sense to you?
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
on 14 Nov 2023 03:35
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The protests started because the police murdered a man in full view of a group of witnesses, a lot of people had a vested interest in making sure that didn’t happen again, in a way that non violent protest would not have achieved.
helenslunch@feddit.nl
on 14 Nov 2023 05:12
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Quite the opposite. A non-violent protest would have achieved much more. The rioters and looters only obstructed the cause.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
on 14 Nov 2023 06:20
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Did you ever get smacked as a child, out of interest?
Madison420@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2023 04:00
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Correct. English sufferage was only gained after a group of women took on learning jujitsu, wearing badass capes and paper body armor and went out burning government buildings and breaking all the windows in anti sufferagette buildings/homes and when police showed up they’d kick the shit out of them with jujitsu and then they’d make a speech the police couldn’t break up because their faces were meeting their asses for the first time and in a most uncomfortable way.
Ed: because it’s interesting and I’m sure people won’t take my word.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
on 14 Nov 2023 06:24
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There’s no way I would have believed you without the link.
Madison420@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2023 12:33
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It’s a very weird story, I won’t take it personally.
DarkGamer@kbin.social
on 14 Nov 2023 16:36
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That is fucking wild! How was I never aware of this? Thanks for sharing it.
Madison420@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2023 17:17
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Because governments don’t particularly want it known that an effective protest is one that puts the government in fear.
SamVergeudetZeit@feddit.de
on 13 Nov 2023 23:13
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No it’s not! Fighting climate change can be addressed as legitimate issue to fix from both sides of the political spectrum. Talking about the gaza conflict and picking an arbitrary side, does nothing except, drive potential fff supporters away. People will hate Greta and everything she stands for even more. Only for virtue signaling points on social media.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 13 Nov 2023 23:21
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Nah. She is spot on when she says that a movement for climate justice cannot ignored the marginalized, the oppressed, and those fighting for justice and freedom.
Those who would hate her for being anti-genocide and anti-apartheid are already very unlikely to be allies to the climate justice movement, a movement that highlights the way that impoverished peoples and nations, especially non-white non-european equatorial and global south nations, are uniquely suffering the consequences of climate change.
SamVergeudetZeit@feddit.de
on 13 Nov 2023 23:35
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But this is such self pleasuring ineffective rhetoric. People in the first world which is the group you wanna adress. So western (not necessaryly white) rich people who enjoying their comforts in the first world. If you want them to actually do something. Like sell their car and become vegan. You have to show them climate change hitting their home turf. Pictures like Italy and Greece Burning for Europeans, smoke covered NYC, etc. If you talk about a “climate justice” movement, in which the main message is, “dont you care about the brown poor people?” you denigrate this catastrophy as an UNICEF Donation event. No one will give up their SUV for that.
Now the Gaza Conflict is complex and polarizing for muslims and Israel supporters, in which you can only make a bad choice, people will turn away and ignore whatever you are trying to sell.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 13 Nov 2023 23:43
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Greta, like many climate activists, is not appealing to rich people. Rich people will never comply with climate regulations. They are almost all sociopaths who do not fucking care if global warming continues to worsen or not. Greta is appealing to the people of the world, people of the working class. There are many of us and the rich are very few. Billionaires and the wealthy will have to be forced to stop destroying the environment by the nation’s they exist in.
She’s also a socialist. As most climate activists are. We don’t give a shit what rich people think. They should be forced to comply. They will never comply of their free will.
SamVergeudetZeit@feddit.de
on 13 Nov 2023 23:49
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This is such a deranged worldview. Progressive liberals and leftists are the rich people! California is a democratic bastion and filled to the brim with progressives and its one of the richest states in the nation. George Soros and Bill Gates support progressive causes. How can you not see that. And shes is definitely not pondering to working class people. Because working class people support political parties which have climate change denying tendencies. Like the republican party and the afd in germany.
Another example from my home turf. Bavaria is the richest state in Germany. BUT also very conservative. Wealth is concentrated around munich. The wider you go away from munich. The “poorer” the population. Last month were the state elections of Bavaria. And the turnout in Munich was nearly 50% for the green party. The wider you distanced yourself from it, the more right wing parties profited. Which used anti green bashing as their main rhetoric. Poor working class people dont vote green en masse.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 14 Nov 2023 00:08
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Conservative economic policy is literally, entirely, “make the country nicer for rich people”.
Socialism centre’s working class people. It advocates for the dismantling and end of the upper class. Rich people should have their wealth taken from them and redistributed to the people. Socialism is the polar opposite of an ideology of the rich. At its most radical Socialism advocates for… getting rid of the rich people by any means necessary. That’s all I’ll say on that.
Leftism is based around the tenants of Socialism. George Soros and Bill Gates are capitalists. Capitalism is why they are wealthy. Conservatism and more broadly neoliberalism (the modern day ideology of most Conservative and liberal parties) promotes capitalism and the free market. Rich people are decidedly neoliberal. Socialism stands in direct opposition to neoliberalism, advocating instead for heavy regulation of every single industry and the public acquisition of all infrastructure and industry. This would be taking the rich people’s assets, their companies, their means of production, and nationalizing them such that they are collectively owned and benefited from by everyone.
Liberals and Conservatives are identical in terms of economic policy. They only differ in terms of how authoritarian they believe the government should be, and how much minorities should be made to suffer in society. Economically they are the exact same. Look at Biden, for example. Look at new labor. Liberals and conservatives are largely allies, and their best friends are rich people. Leftists seek a society where rich people do not exist.
I don’t see a connection between climate justice and justice for Palestinians, other than that it’s both about justice. Could you elaborate why it’s necessary to bring these seemingly unrelated struggles for justice together?
I btw totally see how a lot of social justice is tied to climate justice, but specifically the Palestinian struggle seems totally unrelated. Happy to change my mind.
zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 15 Nov 2023 05:37
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I mean there’s definitely geopolitical implications in this conflict and it happens to be in a region where there are wars for oil.
I think you might be narrowing the definition of politics. Something is political not just when two arbitrary political “sides” disagree. Something is a political issue when government policy is involved, and Greta is absolutely in the business of changing government policy. Climate change is also a political issue because it does create a divide among political groups: the rich and the poor. The people who own the most stuff will profit from irresponsible pollution, and have the most means to avoid its consequences. They will be using their political power to make sure things stay that way. The poor will suffer.
I’m gonna get downvoted for this but this is just wrong.
Climate change is science, not politics. We are trying to address it from multiple angles at the aame time (such as political angles, scientific angles, lifestyle angles, etc)
So the fight to make our politicians accept that climate change is sceince and not politics is, ironically, a political fight but climate change and the movments to stop it are not only political.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip
on 14 Nov 2023 10:15
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Climate Change is, yes.
But the policies to combat it are not.
interceder270@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2023 14:34
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Addressing climate change is politics.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
on 14 Nov 2023 08:22
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As Hbomb said, “People who say they don’t like politics in games actually like politics in games the most, they just wish they were seeing different politics in games, and that’s who Caesar’s Legion is here to stroke off!”
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
on 14 Nov 2023 17:04
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Or detract from the movement by bringing other fronts for it to be attacked into the conversation
Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2023 06:47
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I don’t think this was a smart Move to mix these two issues. Israel & Palestine are so extremely polarizing and mixing this with climate might divide the People and weaken the fight for a green future. For example I would rather avoid that topic. I don’t know enough about Palestine/Israel to publicly debate it. And if my climate-rally somehow turns to pro Palestine or pro Israel I would rather abstain from visiting it. Because I dont have a solid View on this topic.
And I think I might not be alone with this feeling.
dzire187@feddit.de
on 14 Nov 2023 07:46
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I don’t think this was a smart Move.
So, according to you it wasn’t a smart move to grab the mic, and basically say what you’re saying in this comment?
Did you, by any chance, not read beyond the headline?
Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2023 08:05
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It was not a smart move to mix the two issues. Did you, by any chance, not read beyond my first sentence?
Activists don’t need to be one-track minded. They rarely are. I’m a vegan, socialist, anti-fascist who is against the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and for climate justice globally. There’s very strong overlap in these positions. There’s a reason you won’t find a lot of Republican vegans, or pro-Israel socialists.
Yes, sometimes people don’t put in the time to investigate these issues, and I commend you for knowing the limits of your own knowledge, I’ve recommended to people before that it’s better to just say “I don’t know enough about this issue” instead of arriving at an under-researched position. However, it’s not necessary to criticize people who are actually activists, learn about these issues, and go out into the world and advocate for change, so long as they’re advocating for the right thing.
The topic being brought up might ostracize people, but it will also put the topic into people’s minds. People like you might not know what the correct position is here, but you hear the constant pro-Israel propaganda pumped out by the U.S and might arrive at a subconscious conclusion that aligns with the imperial core.
If you hear people speaking out against the apartheid state of Israel, especially people who align with your values, you might be inclined to look into it more, or at the very least not automatically accept U.S propaganda on the issue.
Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2023 10:58
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Again. It creates divergence and weakens the awareness for the core Issue of this specific rally and might drive people away from it.
EDIT: Btw. it’s pretty bold of you to assume you know what “the right thing” is especially on such an highly complex and diverse topic like Israel/Gaza.
SubtleEvolution@lemmynsfw.com
on 14 Nov 2023 16:41
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It’s not bold to declare apartheid a horrible injustice. The commenter above isn’t claiming perfect knowledge or even prescribing a solution, they’re condemning an atrocity.
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2023 11:18
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I have to disagree, the activists that really get things done do have a one-track mind, because it takes a lot of energy, money, and time to make any progress in just one issue. You can certainly care about many things, but you can’t go to every conference, cover every issue in your speech, raise money for every cause, etc.
5BC2E7@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2023 17:00
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This is what they mean when they say that the left will eat it’s own. Some of them share this view and they don’t want to seek consensus on topics we agree to advance their goals. Instead they demand that others support all their beliefs.
Blackmist@feddit.uk
on 14 Nov 2023 13:30
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I think the far left and far right have a similar problem here, in that you have to be “all in” on the group’s talking points, for danger of being ostracised by your peers.
MuuuaadDib@lemm.ee
on 14 Nov 2023 17:40
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We need to have clean air and water to see the burning of the cities we have genocide in, we need to make a better world to kill other because of where they were born and what sky God they choose.
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world
on 15 Nov 2023 03:29
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and people told MLK Jr. similar things when he spoke out against the Vietnam War. Activists fundamentally fight for justice, and as King said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” It might make sense in the short term to look the other way and conform, but when something so terrible happens due to actions from a western ally, it’s good in the long term to have principles.
Hatsune_Miku@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2023 08:31
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randon31415@lemmy.world
on 15 Nov 2023 03:44
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Bombs are bad for the environment.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Nov 2023 05:14
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No you’re thinking of daisy cutters, agent orange, and white phosphorus. Bombs can actually be quite good for the environment especially unexploded ordinance since it keeps people away. Though it can be bad for the local fauna.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee
on 15 Nov 2023 05:51
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You haven’t heard of world war 2?
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Nov 2023 06:41
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Short of leveling a bunch of islands because the Japanese were doing a rather impressive impression of ticks I cant think of many examples of massive environmental impact caused by munitions. Maybe some the Germans and Soviets were chucking more artillery and explosives than I thought in eastern Europe but I can’t think of many other examples.
Shouldve gone with asking about WW1 because fuck did that land get scourged. I was mostly making a joke about how a lot of areas that are closed off due to undetonated munitions double as nature preserves.
khalic@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2023 13:14
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Now that was a stupid move…
portlandlove@fanaticus.social
on 14 Nov 2023 16:59
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Fuckin bitch
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
on 14 Nov 2023 17:29
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Good job by Greta by addressing the elephant in the room first. Nobody is going to take the moral police seriously while the west is supporting genocide. Any climate change protest already comes off as massive virtue signaling right now.
The entire point of preventing climate change is so humanity can continue to exist. The earth can exist without us.
If we’re gonna start a third world War right now you can forget about the 2050 stuff.
MuuuaadDib@lemm.ee
on 14 Nov 2023 17:39
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She needs better security to deal with unhinged people.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee
on 15 Nov 2023 05:52
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Both hamas and israel are commiting big no nos against each other. It’s very hard to even pick a side at this point because both have valid arguments and none are innocent.
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world
on 15 Nov 2023 07:58
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Don’t both sides this. Israel has slaughtered 5000 kids
and killed more civilians in a month than Putin did in Ukraine in over two years. It is deliberately targeting hospitals schools and ambulances and failing to distinguish civilians from combatants. Israeli politicians have repeatedly used dehumanizing language and called for ethnic cleansing. They have told proven lies about human shields while publicly bragging about how they are destroying Gaza.
Hatsune_Miku@lemmy.world
on 15 Nov 2023 10:55
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eeehhh… Ushering people into cages because of their ethnicity seems like grounds of genocide. or at the very least, extreme racism.
fosforus@sopuli.xyz
on 15 Nov 2023 08:44
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I think it’s pretty easy. Hamas is a religious/fascistic terrorist organization, and Israel is a modern western country with an organized military. I concede that neither are perfect (who is?), but Hamas is so much worse that the choice should be trivial for anyone who prefers secularist freedom.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
on 15 Nov 2023 09:15
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Strawman bullshit. This post is not about siding with Hamas, no one in their sane mind does that. Palestinians do not equal Hamas, the same way that Israelis do not equal Jews or vice versa.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
on 15 Nov 2023 09:16
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The linked article even fails to mention what exactly was “pro Palestinian” in the address - there’s zero quotes. Shitty journalism.
Also, you can be “pro Palestinian” without being “anti Israel” - although a lot of shit-for-brains populists try to deny that these days.
MrShankles@reddthat.com
on 15 Nov 2023 09:18
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Only the sith deal in absolutes
Pretzilla@lemmy.world
on 15 Nov 2023 09:59
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Can’t we just go back to that, rather than being asked to pick sides in an issue where 99% of us have no skin in the game?
Why is is always Israel vs Palestine that gets trotted out for us? I don’t remember being asked to picked sides in the Second Congo War, and that killed 5 million people over five years.
It’s just divisive bullshit.
dangblingus@lemmy.world
on 15 Nov 2023 20:38
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It does seem, the world over, that wholesale displacement or extermination of Muslims is what a majority of people want. Why else is the Palestinian/Hamas line so regularly blurred by mainstream media the world over? Between Gaza, Xinjiang, North America, and Europe, there’s so much goddamn Islamophobia.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Greta Thunberg was interrupted as she addressed a climate protest in Amsterdam on Sunday after inviting a Palestinian and an Afghan woman on stage.
The Swedish activist was speaking to a crowd of tens of thousands in the Dutch capital before the country heads to the polls in a general election next week.
Earlier proceedings had been interrupted as a small group of activists at the front of the crowd waved Palestinian flags and chanted pro-Palestinian slogans.
The speeches on stage were the culmination of a mass protest that saw tens of thousands of people march through the streets of Amsterdam, urging for more action to tackle climate change.
Political leaders including former European Union climate chief Frans Timmermans, who now leads a centre-left, two-party bloc in the election campaign, later addressed the crowd in a square behind the landmark Rijksmuseum.
Event organiser, the Climate Crisis Coalition, said in a statement: "We live in a time of crises, all of which are the result of the political choices that have been made.
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Muddling up these two issues is so very stupid … just keep the climate message on climate, how fucking hard is that?
Seriously, no matter which side she takes, she's going to lose a lot of support.
The driving force of climate change is the same reason for the military industrial complexe. Profits over people will always lead to these outcomes. You gotta be able to acknowledge and discuss this stuff.
It didn't seem like she was opposing the military industrial complex in general so much as she was opposing Israel specifically, showing solidarity with those in opposition to them, and implying they are oppressors opposed to freedom and justice.
Shes not wrong.
Hamas are terrorists but the Israeli government’s hands are far from clean. You cant kill 10,000 palestinians in a matter of weeks, half of which are children, and maintain the moral high ground. And that is ignoring how modern Israel came about through the displacement of millions.
Who has the moral high ground in this conflict is a matter of opinion, you might be surprised what you would support if you and your loved ones were under constant threat of violence with no end in sight. Hamas has leveraged public distaste for civilian casualties quite effectively, maximizing it by hiding among them, and leaving Israel without other viable strategies to depose them.
I find myself far more sympathetic to Israel's cause because they weren't the ones that provoked this, their opponents clearly have less concern for civilian lives than they do but simply lack the means, Palestinian factions openly advocate for genocide of Jews, and have remained belligerent and unwilling to sue for viable peace for the last 70 years despite having lost every war they've waged on Israel. Israel has historically shown a great deal of restraint dealing with them for a very long time, but each wanton massacre moves them closer to seeking safety at any cost, even if that cost is many civilian lives.
It's easy to feel sympathy for the underdog, but in this case, the underdog is explicitly genocidal, expects to be treated differently than they treat their opponents, which they constantly provoke with guerrilla attacks, while remaining unwilling to compromise for peace. I'm at a loss as to what other options are available to Israel that provides them meaningful safety without sacrificing their own people or national sovereignty.
Israel exists because millions were displaced from their homes to create it. Settlers continually encroach further. And everyone that lived there is supposed to roll over and let it happen with no resistance whatsoever. Then there’s the current situation which is to put it lightly, a humanitarian disaster. Over a million gazans were essentially told to flee to the south or risk being bombed. And dont get me started on how journalists are being treated. Do not give me this poor innocent Israel horseshit.
The Nakba land was annexed because they declared war on Israel and lost. It's almost like there's consequences for trying to murder your neighbors. They might not want you as neighbors anymore.
You are a ghoul if you think displacing a few million people from their homes in revenge is justified.
What if it's for safety and not revenge?
Doesn’t seem to have worked
This conflict is unusual in that Palestine doesn't seem to care about the realpolitik or their odds regarding military solutions. The popular sentiment is that Palestinians want one state that they control, (and deny Jews rights in,) or no deal and the terrorist attacks continue. For obvious reasons this is not viable.
It seems most of the options that remain involve creating more distance from their belligerent enemy, which means Palestine loses even more land; unless they become willing to lay down arms and sue for peace, that is.
As usual the people against israel try to hold them to a different standard. I mean when has any nation that declared war and got their ass kicked lost any territories as a consequence? /s.
For them, the natural consequences that have applied through history in other conflicts are somehow unjustified when they benefit israel.
It was wrong when those countries did it and it is wrong when Israel does. Your argument is shit.
Yet somehow you only complain when it benefits israel. You probably don’t condemn hamas either so your bias and agenda is clear.
This can be confirmed by anyone with a look at your comments history so i’ll not respond further.
Literally every antiwar protester ever has decried when other countries do that. What in the fuck are you smoking?
Congratulations, you understand Hamas.
Hamas could end this conflict tomorrow if willing to return their hostages, make concessions and sue for a viable peace.
They are, and the IDF decided to bomb hospitals instead.
I’m no Hamas fan, but you’re really doing some mental gymnastics if you think that’s an appropriate response.
That's certainly a Pro-Hamas biased way of interpreting recent events.
Hamas has been hiding in hospitals and firing at IDF forces from within them, and at least one of these bombings was caused by Hamas allies.
I’m a Veteran and I have seen how terrorists use their fellow man and innocent shields. This is a tactic that terrorists use against their enemy. If you attack back you look bad and if you don’t your people die. It’s a lose lose situation but in the end Hamas is using people as shields and put the IDF in a situation where they had to choose their own well being over strangers.
Unfortunately this is a terrible situation for the people of Gaza but Hamas seemed to have pushed the last button. This is a situation where Hamas needs to find out the extent of Israels wrath and learn a lesson because if the lesson isn’t learned they will just do it again.
You got a source on that that can’t be traced back to the IDF press office?
Because giving up has worked so well for Palestinians before.
I don't support Hamas' actions, but I too understand them. The Palestinians have been abused for generations with no good way out in sight for them. They don't have the power to make any real decisions or changes to the status quo here. It's up to the side with power to figure out some way to make this work out better.
I also understand them, but to get into that headspace I must ignore many realities of their realpolitik situation and get into a mindset of anger, revenge and cold-blooded score settling over perceived injustices, remaining incensed over what one believes was taken from them and continues to be taken from them.
While I understand it, it only leads to counter-productive places that ultimately work against their interests. It ignores the complicated causes, historical ambiguities, and unpleasant facts regarding this conflict in favor of a one-sided interpretation. It is a narrative of victimhood and defiance that forgets how often they were the bully and instigator before they were the underdogs. The harsh reality is that at some level might does in fact make right, at least when it comes to international geopolitics. Ignoring this brought Palestine to here. They are an MMA fighter who started a fight, was put into an inescapable submission hold, refuses to tap out, and there is no ref who has authority to end the fight. And still, they keep headbutting the fighter that could break their arm at any moment.
There is a way out: Tap out, because no matter how righteous one's cause is, it doesn't change the fundamentals of the situation. How many lives is pride, perceived righteousness over a lost cause, worth? They could return the hostages, pacify, sue for peace, and get back freedoms and rights and safety at the cost of lands they were never getting back anyway.
It seems like the side with power has tried everything they can reasonably do to achieve peace in a way that retains their national autonomy and keeps their people safe as possible. So far, nothing has worked.
And who's going to ensure that they actually do get those freedoms and rights and safety back once this "deal" has been made? Frankly, I don't believe the Israelis will ever give them back anything once it's been taken away. There's zero good faith to be had any more. The Israelis want them to completely cease to exist and they're just probing around looking for the right way to make that happen without completely losing the support of their international sugar daddies.
The Palestinians also want the Israelis to cease to exist, of course. But as you have so eloquently put it, the Israelis are the ones who have the power to actually make the choices here. So I place the lion's share of the blame for failing to find a compromise on them.
Any guarantees must be negotiated for. I'd say at this point releasing the hostages is a prerequisite for the war to end and that negotiation process to begin.
As in, they don't trust Israel to adhere to terms of a treaty they agreed to? Well, they could invite in the UN or the US or some other neutral party like Egypt to verify that terms are met, with legal consequences if they are not.
Perhaps they can negotiate for some lands back, perhaps not, but I doubt they will get anything like the sweetheart deal they declared war over in '48. Palestine still has more to lose and have very little leverage so I'd expect any viable treaty to be written with this in mind; concessions will have to be made.
Keep in mind that the alternative is that current trends continue and they risk losing everything.
That's not my take, they seem more like they are frustrated that their regularly and overwhelmingly-defeated enemy refuses to pacify themselves despite taking ever more from them and building a massive security apparatus around them. None of it has worked, so I suspect they will continue annexing more lands to create distance because wiping them out isn't an option, whether you think it's because of "international sugar daddies," or their own history of being subjected to genocidal extermination, Israel is playing by a different and more humane playbook, even if it is still quite bloody.
It's their fault for not compromising with an enemy who is uncompromising? One of their demands is driving them into the sea, how can one compromise with this, especially when they hold all the cards?
So they should only begin to negotiate once their only bargaining chips have been given away?
Again, I don't support what Hamas did. But they're not idiots.
Will the Settlement expansion stop and roll back? No?
If they had left kids alone - even crying over their parents mutilated bodies - I would have supported their action fully.
The conflict hasn’t started on October 7th. The conflict started way before Hamas even existed.
It’s seriously hard to take anything pro-Israel seriously knowing that they have a state-sponsored crowdsourced propaganda project where people undertake missions to spread pro-Israel propaganda, and smear Palestine.
Like for all we know your comment could’ve come straight from ACT-IL
Yes indeed. Both sides are heavily propagandizing social media so it's good to be skeptical and insist on credible sources. Here's an article about a pro-Palestine disinformation campaign on twitter trying to get Americans to stay out of the conflict, for example. I wouldn't assume everyone who disagrees with you is a paid shill, nor would I assume that those who agree with you aren't; I find it's better to stick to the issues at hand than try to divine the motivations of random internet strangers.
Also, I suspect things are probably better here in that regard than on other platforms, as the feddiverse is still flying under the radar for those seeking to shape public opinion.
I never said anything about paid shill. Here’s a video where someone walks through the app. I don’t think people get paid, but they do earn badges and points and whatnot for spreading propaganda and mass-reporting content that’s posted to the app.
Thing is, I don’t have a horse in this race. Looking on from the outside what’s happening is disgusting, be it using hospitals as shields, thereby endangering people there, or turning off access to water to over two million people. There’s no right side here.
There’s also fuck all I can do about it so I generally just keep out of things. It’s not my mess to deal with.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Here’s a video where someone walks through the app.
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
That's fascinating, they crowdsourced and gamified propaganda by weaponizing corporate sensitivity to offensiveness. Thanks for sharing that link, although the host definitely is promoting his own biases while showcasing the app, it was very informative and worth watching. Reading a little more into this, it appears Hamas has adapted to this technique by relying on Telegram to spread their messaging since the other platforms have removed them for extremist content.
This makes me appreciate another advantage of the feddiverse, the mass reporting techniques that this approach relies on to silence dissent might work on profit-driven social media companies, but here mods can use their own discretion rather than prioritizing financial and PR motivations for what gets removed like the for-profit companies have to.
Oh yeah. Caelan definitely have their own biases, they’re quite clearly very left on the political spectrum, but I couldn’t find another video or article where people are going through the app in the same fashion. Search engines mostly gave me rubbish about the ongoing conflict which isn’t at all what I was looking for. Google doesn’t work anymore.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Google doesn’t work anymore.
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Israel puts itself in this position by preventing Gazans from having weapons. They want to hold Gazans responsible for Hamas, but they continually and actively prevent the Gazans’ ability to actually take responsibility for their “government”.
If the only way to advocate for climate action is to also try and turn people into pacifist commies, we can just stop trying.
edit: the laughable failure to understand basic human psychology in this thread, lmao
“I can give up fossil fuels, or I can stop slaughtering innocents but fuck you if you want both.”
Let me put it in simpler terms. I can do the right thing as long as it doesn’t require me to do something very wrong. Then it would be wrong.
Money from government contracts is more like a grant than profit.
Because?
Because it’s not actual business taking place. Profit is when you produce more value than you consumed, as evidenced by people being willing to pay your price for the goods or services you’re offering.
Government doesn’t willingly buy things in the same way as a consumer or other private entity. It is compelled to by law, and instead of computing actual value in its purchases it seeks minimum cost for a set level of service.
That isn’t an explanation on how companies who provide products and services to the government aren’t for profit.
I’ve worked for companies that had government contracts. They are for profit and it isn’t grants.
I don’t know it works in your mind but in the real world you can actually make good money (and profit) with gov. contracts.
It’s wild people are so ignorant to how our economic system works and how our government is entwined in it. Then again,
looks around
no, shit, that actually explains alot.
Oh okay so every government contractor is a non-profit?
What funny is both issue are extremely linked.
Earlier this year, Isreal sign an agreement with Lebanon to help explore the area for gas and oil.
Isreal anounced a new middle East to supply eroupe with gas.
Iareal on October 19 or around ot awarded 12 companies the ability to explore gas and oil in the region.
The only thing that was stopping them is Hamas.
The expected value goes over 400 billion in the last few years, as expressed in a report by the UN about the gas field there.
They are not. It’s a tiny region of the world and it’s ridiculous to even bring a climate consideration into such a conflict.
Yes, and Hitler really liked dogs and Nazis did a lot for animal welfare. Fuck off.
Lol i searched “Hamas Gas Isreal” to find the article a while back saying how they can’t work in the region because of hamas and guess what I find?
1 Hour ago:
Chevron Restarts Gas Production on Platform Near Gaza Strip
www.nytimes.com/…/chevron-israel-tamar-gas.html
Imagine thinking the Middle East, a “tiny region” which also just so happens to be where more than half of all oil used on Earth comes from, is irrelevant to the discussion of climate change.
You probably wouldn’t be so angry if you weren’t having to bend over backwards to make nonsensical arguments like this to defend your nonsensical opinions.
Besides that i’d really like to know how much these sneseless wars contribute towards further polution. All the jets burning, ground vehicles moving, possibility of nukes
Depends on how many lives are cut short and never become. If one woman were to have had 6 kids who then made another 12 grandchildren, their footprint would be much higher than if a woman never was going to have kids.
Overall it is a dark topic. But ~7 lives to a fighter jet tank of gas if I saw correctly. (28 metric tons per tank) average footprint worldwide is about 4 per person.
The moral of the story I suppose is to send everyone to war on foot, nude, and only hand to hand combat is permitted. Don’t want to figure out the footprint of a sword or hammer. Easier just to say pick up a rock.
Now that that’s sorted, let’s have some tea.
She’s never been afraid to speak her mind. How do we address the issue of climate change, if we turn a blind eye to the suffering of innocent people and children done intentionally for vengeance’s sake?
War is terrible for the climate. All that extra fuel burning, and in machines not designed to do it efficiently
Not to mention all the destruction of farms, the poisoning of water sources, all the destroyed vehicles and rotting corpses of men and animals alike laid everywhere.
They will be calling this the 2nd Nakba. Not only is it a massacre of the people, the Palestinians last remaining lands have been salted. Gaza looks like Stalingrad.
It is an entirely man made disaster. Or state made disaster if you will.
Well focus is generally useful for getting things done so one way to address climate change would be to stick to climate change discussion at climate change discussion events.
Nothing builds a coalition as effectively as insisting that you absolutely must include a controversial but completely unrelated topic in the effort.
Want to sabotage a protest? Encourage advocacy for increasingly tangential issues. Focus splits, folks start disagreeing on new issues, folks start disagreeing on how issues get prioritized, everything falls apart.
Sadly, this doesn’t even require a malicious actor encouraging it. Well-meaning folks see a potentially sympathetic audience for their pet issue and boom.
YES!!!
YES!!!
At some point an acute issue takes precedence over your long term goals. These are pretty wild hyperbole, but I acknowledge I am trying to paint an image.
Let’s say you were an activist for the welfare of cattle. But then you find out chickens are hooked up to a new feed system that increases their weight by 20% but also causes them excruciating neurological pain, to the point the chickens are even trying to peck themselves to death to avoid the torture. Would it not make sense to pivot for a moment to the worse animal cruelty for a while? The cows aren’t going anywhere.
Let’s say you were an activist for climate and a nation state was running towards genociding an entire group of people. Would it not make sense to pivot to the genocide speed run for a while? Climate change isn’t going anywhere.
This is valueless and destructive virtue signaling.
It is extremely valuable. She has a powerful voice and far-reaching influence. She is using her voice to advocate for the voiceless. Israel is an apartheid state, and they must be held accountable for the crimes against humanity they are committing and have historically committed against the people and nation of Palestine.
No as I explained above this is nonsensical virtue signaling.
You can’t just spout off a buzz word as tho it’s an actual argument.
She’s standing with Palestine against those who are mass murdering them. She has powerful influence. Her choosing to say this legitimately will influence public opinion.
No it wont. Greta is the climate lady. And if the climate lady says stuff which i disagress with, i wont listen to the climate lady anymore. I even hate the climate lady now.
Greta is one of the most influential people of her entire generation. She is a powerful orator who has already had major impacts on climate policy around the world, and she has a massive audience.
You’re not the entirety of the world.
We are so lost…
I really don’t think she’s as important as you think she is, or anywhere near as influential.
Her influence extends to rustling the jimmies of mainstream media, I get to hear all about it the next day from coworkers over lunch … “did you hear about what she said this time?”
Is this satire?
Not sure why you think it’s valueless. Bringing up the mere topic of Palestine suffering gets your mic taken away, prosecuted and look at like a Hamas sympathizer. It’s as much virtue signalling as getting arrested blocking the entrance of an oil conference - as in it’s not.
Wars tend to lead to built and natural areas alike getting razed, it’s a huge waste of resources and lives. And what for? Political gain? Money for the Military Industrial Complex? All those vehicles except for drones use fossil fuel, and rightwing governments rallying support over wars definitely don’t give a rat’s ass for the climate. So in summary, the Gaza issue and yhe climate are definitely related.
Those are two separate and unrelated issues, and should be treated as such.
What he really means is that he only wants to hear about one slice of a political view, or he doesn’t understand that climate change is a political subject too.
He probably means he disagrees with her about this issue and didn't show up to support a pro-Palestine rally.
I've been told that if your protest isn't disruptive, it's not really a protest, so I'm sure everyone here will be fully understanding and supportive of this guy for standing up for his beliefs /s
Not all beliefs are created equal. You can respect people without respecting their beliefs.
The point is that people on lemmy (and reddit, and other left leaning forums) tend to dump on people who object to protestors disrupting shit, like closing roads (without a permit), etc.
And then get hypocritical when a protestor does the same thing to counter protest a popular (in this forum) cause.
Don’t get me wrong, I think this was a shitty move. But I also think fucking over completely unrelated people’s days by blocking traffic is also a shit way to conduct a protest.
I think the difference between these two situations is the disruption of commerce.
Capitalists do not give a shit about protests until the protests start affecting their bottom line. That’s why blocking freeways is such a big deal–it speaks to them in a language that they understand. It’s effective not because John Q Taxpayer can’t get to work on time, but because Corporation Q Capital-owner can’t exploit John’s labor without his butt in his seat and without trucks full of resources coming in regularly. Corporations lose much, much more than regular people do when commerce is disrupted.
Grabbing the microphone like is disruptive, but it does not disrupt commerce. If anything, it shows that his goal is to deplatform someone (someone whose platform is the very reason he is there tonight, by his own admission) or to elevate his own platform.
Whoever told you that, stop listening to them. An effective protest is one that expresses your views, and ideally changes people’s minds and builds support for your cause. Disrupting people’s lives is typically counterproductive to actually gaining support.
There are genuinely people who think like that. To be fair, the George Floyd protests/riots changed things in a way that peaceful protest had so far failed to do.
Some minor progress was made because of the millions of people who turned out to peacefully protest. Those who rioted and destroyed shit only contributed ammunition to the opposition.
I disagree, I think having an entire block burnt down made a lot of people decide they don’t want to see this happen again, in a way a regular protest wouldn’t have.
Really? You think people had their businesses burned down and their town destroyed and thought to themselves “boy I hope these people get what they wanted!” or do you think they thought “These people are human garbage and I hope they rot in prison”? Which one of these thought processes makes more sense to you?
The protests started because the police murdered a man in full view of a group of witnesses, a lot of people had a vested interest in making sure that didn’t happen again, in a way that non violent protest would not have achieved.
Quite the opposite. A non-violent protest would have achieved much more. The rioters and looters only obstructed the cause.
Did you ever get smacked as a child, out of interest?
Correct. English sufferage was only gained after a group of women took on learning jujitsu, wearing badass capes and paper body armor and went out burning government buildings and breaking all the windows in anti sufferagette buildings/homes and when police showed up they’d kick the shit out of them with jujitsu and then they’d make a speech the police couldn’t break up because their faces were meeting their asses for the first time and in a most uncomfortable way.
Ed: because it’s interesting and I’m sure people won’t take my word.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffrajitsu
There’s no way I would have believed you without the link.
It’s a very weird story, I won’t take it personally.
That is fucking wild! How was I never aware of this? Thanks for sharing it.
Because governments don’t particularly want it known that an effective protest is one that puts the government in fear.
No it’s not! Fighting climate change can be addressed as legitimate issue to fix from both sides of the political spectrum. Talking about the gaza conflict and picking an arbitrary side, does nothing except, drive potential fff supporters away. People will hate Greta and everything she stands for even more. Only for virtue signaling points on social media.
Nah. She is spot on when she says that a movement for climate justice cannot ignored the marginalized, the oppressed, and those fighting for justice and freedom.
Those who would hate her for being anti-genocide and anti-apartheid are already very unlikely to be allies to the climate justice movement, a movement that highlights the way that impoverished peoples and nations, especially non-white non-european equatorial and global south nations, are uniquely suffering the consequences of climate change.
But this is such self pleasuring ineffective rhetoric. People in the first world which is the group you wanna adress. So western (not necessaryly white) rich people who enjoying their comforts in the first world. If you want them to actually do something. Like sell their car and become vegan. You have to show them climate change hitting their home turf. Pictures like Italy and Greece Burning for Europeans, smoke covered NYC, etc. If you talk about a “climate justice” movement, in which the main message is, “dont you care about the brown poor people?” you denigrate this catastrophy as an UNICEF Donation event. No one will give up their SUV for that.
Now the Gaza Conflict is complex and polarizing for muslims and Israel supporters, in which you can only make a bad choice, people will turn away and ignore whatever you are trying to sell.
Greta, like many climate activists, is not appealing to rich people. Rich people will never comply with climate regulations. They are almost all sociopaths who do not fucking care if global warming continues to worsen or not. Greta is appealing to the people of the world, people of the working class. There are many of us and the rich are very few. Billionaires and the wealthy will have to be forced to stop destroying the environment by the nation’s they exist in.
She’s also a socialist. As most climate activists are. We don’t give a shit what rich people think. They should be forced to comply. They will never comply of their free will.
This is such a deranged worldview. Progressive liberals and leftists are the rich people! California is a democratic bastion and filled to the brim with progressives and its one of the richest states in the nation. George Soros and Bill Gates support progressive causes. How can you not see that. And shes is definitely not pondering to working class people. Because working class people support political parties which have climate change denying tendencies. Like the republican party and the afd in germany.
Another example from my home turf. Bavaria is the richest state in Germany. BUT also very conservative. Wealth is concentrated around munich. The wider you go away from munich. The “poorer” the population. Last month were the state elections of Bavaria. And the turnout in Munich was nearly 50% for the green party. The wider you distanced yourself from it, the more right wing parties profited. Which used anti green bashing as their main rhetoric. Poor working class people dont vote green en masse.
Conservative economic policy is literally, entirely, “make the country nicer for rich people”.
Socialism centre’s working class people. It advocates for the dismantling and end of the upper class. Rich people should have their wealth taken from them and redistributed to the people. Socialism is the polar opposite of an ideology of the rich. At its most radical Socialism advocates for… getting rid of the rich people by any means necessary. That’s all I’ll say on that.
Leftism is based around the tenants of Socialism. George Soros and Bill Gates are capitalists. Capitalism is why they are wealthy. Conservatism and more broadly neoliberalism (the modern day ideology of most Conservative and liberal parties) promotes capitalism and the free market. Rich people are decidedly neoliberal. Socialism stands in direct opposition to neoliberalism, advocating instead for heavy regulation of every single industry and the public acquisition of all infrastructure and industry. This would be taking the rich people’s assets, their companies, their means of production, and nationalizing them such that they are collectively owned and benefited from by everyone.
Liberals and Conservatives are identical in terms of economic policy. They only differ in terms of how authoritarian they believe the government should be, and how much minorities should be made to suffer in society. Economically they are the exact same. Look at Biden, for example. Look at new labor. Liberals and conservatives are largely allies, and their best friends are rich people. Leftists seek a society where rich people do not exist.
I don’t see a connection between climate justice and justice for Palestinians, other than that it’s both about justice. Could you elaborate why it’s necessary to bring these seemingly unrelated struggles for justice together?
I btw totally see how a lot of social justice is tied to climate justice, but specifically the Palestinian struggle seems totally unrelated. Happy to change my mind.
I mean there’s definitely geopolitical implications in this conflict and it happens to be in a region where there are wars for oil.
I think you might be narrowing the definition of politics. Something is political not just when two arbitrary political “sides” disagree. Something is a political issue when government policy is involved, and Greta is absolutely in the business of changing government policy. Climate change is also a political issue because it does create a divide among political groups: the rich and the poor. The people who own the most stuff will profit from irresponsible pollution, and have the most means to avoid its consequences. They will be using their political power to make sure things stay that way. The poor will suffer.
I’m gonna get downvoted for this but this is just wrong.
Climate change is science, not politics. We are trying to address it from multiple angles at the aame time (such as political angles, scientific angles, lifestyle angles, etc)
So the fight to make our politicians accept that climate change is sceince and not politics is, ironically, a political fight but climate change and the movments to stop it are not only political.
Climate Change is, yes.
But the policies to combat it are not.
Addressing climate change is politics.
As Hbomb said, “People who say they don’t like politics in games actually like politics in games the most, they just wish they were seeing different politics in games, and that’s who Caesar’s Legion is here to stroke off!”
Or detract from the movement by bringing other fronts for it to be attacked into the conversation
I don’t think this was a smart Move to mix these two issues. Israel & Palestine are so extremely polarizing and mixing this with climate might divide the People and weaken the fight for a green future. For example I would rather avoid that topic. I don’t know enough about Palestine/Israel to publicly debate it. And if my climate-rally somehow turns to pro Palestine or pro Israel I would rather abstain from visiting it. Because I dont have a solid View on this topic. And I think I might not be alone with this feeling.
So, according to you it wasn’t a smart move to grab the mic, and basically say what you’re saying in this comment?
Did you, by any chance, not read beyond the headline?
It was not a smart move to mix the two issues. Did you, by any chance, not read beyond my first sentence?
Activists don’t need to be one-track minded. They rarely are. I’m a vegan, socialist, anti-fascist who is against the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and for climate justice globally. There’s very strong overlap in these positions. There’s a reason you won’t find a lot of Republican vegans, or pro-Israel socialists.
Yes, sometimes people don’t put in the time to investigate these issues, and I commend you for knowing the limits of your own knowledge, I’ve recommended to people before that it’s better to just say “I don’t know enough about this issue” instead of arriving at an under-researched position. However, it’s not necessary to criticize people who are actually activists, learn about these issues, and go out into the world and advocate for change, so long as they’re advocating for the right thing.
The topic being brought up might ostracize people, but it will also put the topic into people’s minds. People like you might not know what the correct position is here, but you hear the constant pro-Israel propaganda pumped out by the U.S and might arrive at a subconscious conclusion that aligns with the imperial core.
If you hear people speaking out against the apartheid state of Israel, especially people who align with your values, you might be inclined to look into it more, or at the very least not automatically accept U.S propaganda on the issue.
Again. It creates divergence and weakens the awareness for the core Issue of this specific rally and might drive people away from it.
EDIT: Btw. it’s pretty bold of you to assume you know what “the right thing” is especially on such an highly complex and diverse topic like Israel/Gaza.
It’s not bold to declare apartheid a horrible injustice. The commenter above isn’t claiming perfect knowledge or even prescribing a solution, they’re condemning an atrocity.
I have to disagree, the activists that really get things done do have a one-track mind, because it takes a lot of energy, money, and time to make any progress in just one issue. You can certainly care about many things, but you can’t go to every conference, cover every issue in your speech, raise money for every cause, etc.
This is what they mean when they say that the left will eat it’s own. Some of them share this view and they don’t want to seek consensus on topics we agree to advance their goals. Instead they demand that others support all their beliefs.
I think the far left and far right have a similar problem here, in that you have to be “all in” on the group’s talking points, for danger of being ostracised by your peers.
We need to have clean air and water to see the burning of the cities we have genocide in, we need to make a better world to kill other because of where they were born and what sky God they choose.
and people told MLK Jr. similar things when he spoke out against the Vietnam War. Activists fundamentally fight for justice, and as King said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” It might make sense in the short term to look the other way and conform, but when something so terrible happens due to actions from a western ally, it’s good in the long term to have principles.
what’s this got to do with climate change?
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Bombs are bad for the environment.
No you’re thinking of daisy cutters, agent orange, and white phosphorus. Bombs can actually be quite good for the environment especially unexploded ordinance since it keeps people away. Though it can be bad for the local fauna.
You haven’t heard of world war 2?
Short of leveling a bunch of islands because the Japanese were doing a rather impressive impression of ticks I cant think of many examples of massive environmental impact caused by munitions. Maybe some the Germans and Soviets were chucking more artillery and explosives than I thought in eastern Europe but I can’t think of many other examples.
Shouldve gone with asking about WW1 because fuck did that land get scourged. I was mostly making a joke about how a lot of areas that are closed off due to undetonated munitions double as nature preserves.
Now that was a stupid move…
Fuckin bitch
Good job by Greta by addressing the elephant in the room first. Nobody is going to take the moral police seriously while the west is supporting genocide. Any climate change protest already comes off as massive virtue signaling right now.
The entire point of preventing climate change is so humanity can continue to exist. The earth can exist without us. If we’re gonna start a third world War right now you can forget about the 2050 stuff.
She needs better security to deal with unhinged people.
Both hamas and israel are commiting big no nos against each other. It’s very hard to even pick a side at this point because both have valid arguments and none are innocent.
you don’t have to pick any side! <3
i don’t!
I personally am not picking any sides. Just hoping for the best out of both parties here.
this is their best lol
I also wish for the quick destruction of Hamas.
Don’t both sides this. Israel has slaughtered 5000 kids and killed more civilians in a month than Putin did in Ukraine in over two years. It is deliberately targeting hospitals schools and ambulances and failing to distinguish civilians from combatants. Israeli politicians have repeatedly used dehumanizing language and called for ethnic cleansing. They have told proven lies about human shields while publicly bragging about how they are destroying Gaza.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine?wprov=sfla1
These are bullshit statistics until they are verified by independent sources.
Here’s a short clip of Israel’s genocide against children
x.com/GozukaraFurkan/status/1723798343040614634?s…
why didn’t they flee along with the rest of the population?
There’s nowhere to flee to. Gaza is a concentration camp.
lmao that’s not what a concentration camp is. A concentration camp is where you’re expected to work. You’re thinking of a prison.
that said~ why can’t they flee to egypt? :3
This seems to be a highly biased and untrustable source. Most clear evidence here (and you can find others from this comments):
twitter.com/GozukaraFurkan/…/1714341949774192768
Commendable that he preserved this mistake for us, though.
Maybe we would have better sources if the Israelis hadn’t imposed a blackout by cutting electricity and internet and killing 50 journalists.
eeehhh… Ushering people into cages because of their ethnicity seems like grounds of genocide. or at the very least, extreme racism.
I think it’s pretty easy. Hamas is a religious/fascistic terrorist organization, and Israel is a modern western country with an organized military. I concede that neither are perfect (who is?), but Hamas is so much worse that the choice should be trivial for anyone who prefers secularist freedom.
Strawman bullshit. This post is not about siding with Hamas, no one in their sane mind does that. Palestinians do not equal Hamas, the same way that Israelis do not equal Jews or vice versa.
The linked article even fails to mention what exactly was “pro Palestinian” in the address - there’s zero quotes. Shitty journalism.
Also, you can be “pro Palestinian” without being “anti Israel” - although a lot of shit-for-brains populists try to deny that these days.
Only the sith deal in absolutes
Pretty ironic way to say it, Obi dude
I remember we used to have anti-war rallies.
I don’t recall them being painted as pro-Iraqi.
Can’t we just go back to that, rather than being asked to pick sides in an issue where 99% of us have no skin in the game?
Why is is always Israel vs Palestine that gets trotted out for us? I don’t remember being asked to picked sides in the Second Congo War, and that killed 5 million people over five years.
It’s just divisive bullshit.
It does seem, the world over, that wholesale displacement or extermination of Muslims is what a majority of people want. Why else is the Palestinian/Hamas line so regularly blurred by mainstream media the world over? Between Gaza, Xinjiang, North America, and Europe, there’s so much goddamn Islamophobia.