I would be nice if people broadly opposed bombing ANYONE but even here, a site that appeals largely to self-proclaimed leftists and progressives like this is just oozing with as much bloodlust as you would see from the worst people we condemn.
This bloodlust for the deaths of others is why we have a genocide raging to begin with. Why can’t we all be better and be consistent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_crisis
The Houthis say that any Israel-linked ship is a target,[90][87][88] including US and UK warships, but they have also attacked the ships of many nations with no connection to Israel.[91][92] From October 2023 to March 2024, the Houthis attacked more than 60 vessels in the Red Sea.
The part where this goes off the rails in the public discourse is that people are broadly absolutely fucking STUCK in linear, binary thinking, I can list a thousand examples of this in every-day-life and it’s a weakness that governments exploit daily. For some reason our species can live comfortably in the cognitive dissonance about things like faith and reason existing alongside each other, but cannot fathom the idea that bad people can fight other bad people and they’re both bad. Or that people lie in ways that appeal to your own feelings to try to get public sympathy behind their own agenda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_crisis
The Houthis say that any Israel-linked ship is a target,[90][87][88] including US and UK warships, but they have also attacked the ships of many nations with no connection to Israel.[91][92] From October 2023 to March 2024, the Houthis attacked more than 60 vessels in the Red Sea.
They’re pirates. If the genocide stopped tomorrow, they would still be fighting for their own political agendas and of course the wealth onboard these giant ships full of goods, including food, aid and other vital supplies destined for countries unrelated to Israel, Yemen or Palestine.
Yah, we shouldn’t hold our breath since every media organization are commercial entities and owned by people with agendas towards profit and holding particular narratives. Media is not only complicit in our current state of American decline, they’re largely the instigators.
Network news. Social media. Youtube pundits and streamers. Movies and television. Magazines and print media. Radio and podcasts.
These are all tools to deliver propaganda and the ones with the most money have the most stake in maintaining their profit margins and relationships with other corporations.
Also, we do not have an “opposition party” anymore, if we ever did at all. It’s all WWE spectacle to hook viewers on drama and narratives.
Reading is the metric, but the implications are so much worse.
This isn’t about if someone can read articles and get facts, even literate people don’t do that.
The problem is that reading comprehension is directly tied to one’s ability to comprehend, manage and categorize information in one’s brain. When you learn to read, you teach your brain to take complex ideas information and organize them into manageable sets and abstractions using language.
When you don’t have this “enhancement” to your internal dialogue and cognition, you don’t have a rich inner-voice if any at all, and you just go along with whatever you feel and whatever story is provided to you.
Make no mistake, the destruction of our education was deliberate and planned and it’s working exactly as intended. If we try to organize and even get budgets passed to increase our education capacity, our teacher’s pay, our textbooks and schools and so on, we will still be fighting far more wealthy organizations and corporations who want a population that stares transfixed at shows about people buying things.
I guess because I’ve witnessed authoritarian takeovers of other countries this detail didn’t even phase me, we should have expected it. There are a large number of places in the world where you will get turned away or worse for your beliefs if you’re outspoken. Americans’ deluded belief broadly that we had “free speech” was always a crutch people would use to justify their hate but was rarely used for actual social change.
The next layer of destruction of our species’ potential was when we monetized attention spans.
The reality is this:
They are accosting and hassling/turning away people who aren’t white. And I see pushback on this in the weirdest forms, people saying how most immigration officers are hispanic or black also, etc. That does not matter. This is entirely superficial and ordered by higher-ups and designed to drive up hate and racial tension so we don’t unify. If you’re not white, you face significant chances of being hassled at immigration but there are still thousands and thousands of people passing in and out of the country daily, so it’s not THAT high of a chance.
As for transit across the states? Outside of some real backwater sundown towns in the deep south, there is a massive cognitive bias at work in the USA that works in two directions.
I can promise you that you can be brown, asian, hispanic, purple with polka-dots and could most likely bicycle across the entire country and you will be treated with kindness and respect and people will offer to take you into their homes across the country.
The weird disconnect that people are having a hard time digesting is that some of these same people will go online and scream about how immigrants are ruining our country and that we need to start a race war.
We don’t live in a coherent reality in the USA anymore. The media world, including the internet and places like reddit and lemmy and facebook and twitter reflect a weird “mirror universe” where people are following an entirely different set of feelings.
We are in a new world of cognitive dissonance and I fully understand how off-putting that is and I recommend not visiting the country for that reason alone. Don’t give this country tourism money as long as this administration remains in control.
* coughskincolorcough *
I want to go back about 20 years and find every idealist moron online who tried to debate with me that we can’t keep calling people racist and that oppression is a deeper issue than superficial appearances and I want to smack them clean into 2025 so they can see what they permitted.
Nobody cares about objective reality anymore. Once we started letting people live in their own worlds of “feel facts” without consequence, lest someone throw stones at our own escapism cognitive biases, we ceded control of the world to the loudest and most hateful people.
There is no convincing people of anything anymore because they can just close their ears and go somewhere more comfortable. If they face no repercussions and can not only get praise for being hateful but even raise money and become celebrities, what do we really think is going to result from explaining things anymore?
I grudgingly have to upvote you for being accurate even though the information is creating great discussions.
Before traveling to California, I had people in my neighborhood plead with me not to go because the whole state is a “disaster area” and that the cities are burning and that there are “drug needles everywhere you walk” and that I was putting my life and those of my loved ones in serious danger. They thought with 100% certainty that Los Angeles was completely on fire from looting and I was going to some kind of Mad Max hellscape. Without exaggeration. They wouldn’t listen to reassurance and were genuinely worried.
Granted some of these people were older, they weren’t suffering dementia and could still drive. They just park in front of FOX news all day, every day, 24-hours a day swallowing conservative propaganda. They also have algorithmic filtering on their facebook and twitter.
Our perspectives of each others worlds has been damaged beyond repair because of this filtering. We have it on the left/progressive side too, showing us a different reflection of a pandering, emotionally validating worldview. Not as malicious maybe, but we are all trapped.
There are so many directions the internet could take with a comment like this. Fortunately it’s lemmy and everyone is kinda slow.
The dogs are scared, and the escalator is legitimately dangerous to furry animals with long toenails, so in this case everyone wins. The safest option is also the cutest.
America is just used to banning things instead of holding the public accountable.
IE: it’s much easier to ban dogs from a store or gathering place than kick someone out for not having a trained dog that knows to shit outside, or god forbid, expect someone to clean up properly if their dog has an accident, and then you get angry Karens and Chuds screaming at you while holding their phones up recording the whole thing, which then goes viral and the company’s brand-name suddenly becomes associated with hating dogs or something.
This is such a bigger problem than America. Our “leadership” is threatening the entire world’s health and safety. I am literally begging other countries to take this seriously, this is a spreading problem (and I don’t just mean the avian flu) this algorithmic destabilization of intellectual democracy is powered by international funding and if it doesn’t kill you directly, it will indirectly as something like the bird flu mutates and makes Covid look like the sniffles.
Fight America, but also fight for your own sovereignty and get money out of politics and make your leadership understand it’s a matter of life and death.
When the corporations start dividing your population and guaranteeing their own interests over democracy, look at what happened to us and learn from it. It doesn’t stop here.
You’re right, and what you need to understand is that the reason half of our idiots voted for an idiot is because we allowed corporations to atomize society so people didn’t mix anymore, we don’t have shared perspectives of the world anymore, everyone gets their information about literally everything algorithmically. This atomization of society is what took down the USA and it’s coming for you next if it’s not already happening wherever you are.
Almost every American just wants to stay home and play video games, we didn’t want any of this. We wanted healthcare.
Our dumb, violent, primate species fucking deserves the apocalypse we’re crafting in laboratories as we speak.