• ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world
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    Exactly, half these people are bored with nothing better to do and should be working.

    You can tell as they often are a collective with no common goal or objective other than ‘protest’. And it’s causing such division in our society with now a strong anti immigration movement cos people are getting sick of it.

    And in the end everyone loses.

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      1 month ago

      If you can get arrested and jailed for wearing a shirt saying “from the river to the sea”, that means your government is suppressing your free speech in service to the genocidal regime of a different country. Even if you don’t care about the genocide, the subversion of your democracy and your civil rights by a foreign power is something that any responsible citizen should be fighting against.

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        1 month ago

        Again so quick to fire you assume that I disagree with you.

        Something to consider though, we do have free speech in this country and its likely and this case (if challenged) will get thrown out. Update edit: she took a caution.

        But also tell me how wearing a t shirt constructively convinces others to share our point of view? Quite the contrary I imagine others who don’t share the same opinion will go ‘avoid this person before they shout at me for having a different point of view’

        And do you know a better way to make a movement in this country than if everyone is able to convince someone else to share (or perhaps just lean closer to) a common opinion/belief. So if instead of pissing off alternative points of view, have an open chat, you might change ppls minds. 1 million voices is better than 100,000 voices, and 25 million voices is better than 1 million. And an open chat is not wearing a tshirt.

        But first people need to actually talk and listen to each other instead of shouting and hating each other.

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      If the citizens of the countries that can exert some pressure on other genocidal countries do nothing who will?

      Your logic is no different to saying people involved in WW2 should have mind their own businesses unless directly attacked by the Nazis.

      You also fail to recognise that, as history teaches, oppression somewhere in the world can quickly be exported to you country.

      And most importantly, unless you are a soulless person with no sense of empathy, we should care about suffering anywhere in the world.

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        Before you get on your high horse that’s not what I said.

        I said that a lot of these people are protesting without having a common cause on what they are protesting for. And that it is creating deep fractures in our society.

        But don’t let a fact get in the way of your keyboard rage, grab your pitchfork, jump down the throat of anyone who you think is pro Israeli, and make sure to throw in a WW2 or Nazi reference.

        Or perhaps consider that your response is exactly what I was talking about, and it’s this kind of rant that is dividing us.

        I encourage a good discussion, sharing of ideas/opinions, perhaps you’ll change peoples minds but instead you resort to a “you’re wrong and I’m gonna call you names”

        And for the record, I still haven’t said I’m pro war cos I’m not. What I’ve said is I am disappointed in the people in this country with how they have responded to it.