People’s opinions are expressions of who they are and unwelcomed opinions feel like attacks for people unaccustomed to debate. Westerners; especially Americans; don’t like taking about “politics” in polite conversation so an overwhelming majority will remain unaccustomed to debate.

I agree that .world has low engagement as do all of the other non-political & non-technical Lemmy instances do and that fact is treated like another one of those unwelcomed opinions in those instances; that’s why you’re getting downvotes for pointing this out.

Lemmy was invented by and for people who exist at the intersection of leftist politics and open source technology and that makes them more amenable for debate but it could only work for you if you’re capable of comporting yourself accordingly in such spaces if those views don’t come naturally to you. If your politics or interest are too far out of sync with this core group of Lemmy users, then you either have to wait until the other social media platforms enshitify enough to force more people into Lemmy or go back to the enshitification yourself on their platforms.

It’s a symptom of it system destroying itself because of it’s inherent contradictions; it’s also the same reason why we’re going with fascism.

choosing to do nothing is understandable if it’s seems like your only options are to vote for either of the 2 political parties that are both supporting the genocide.

I want to believe that such a public display of inequality of our legal system would galvanize change; but we’re now living in a world where a genocide that’s publicly available for viewing in real time is popularly considered to be acceptable political collateral damage and both the people who want to stop it and the people who stop participating because of it are blamed for it.

It makes me wonder what the tipping point will be like and I hope I’m long dead by then so I don’t have to continue witnessing the increasing cruelty that so many are fooled into perpetuating.

Some perverse part of me is glad that the fires hit wealthy neighborhoods; but it’s short lived since they’ll recover significantly faster than the less wealthy neighborhoods and it’s clear that I need to change my perspective before I get too old and bitter to change.

I wish I was a conspiracy theorist; I would love to have the certainty. Nevertheless I merely point out a very common and true accusation that the icc’s & icj’s purpose is use the legal system against the global south to justify the western capitalist empire’s hegemony.

You’re either living under a rock or willfully ignorant about this fact and your choice of primary instance informs my that it’s likely the latter since you have internet access but refuse to inform yourself of our reality.

Willful ignorance like yours is the reason why Harris lost the election; the reason why we’re descending into fascism; and why the western world is doing little more than token efforts on climate change. for their sake, I hope you never have children so that they can avoid the cruelty that you’re (hopefully) unwittingly helping propagate.

Why do you have to attack me like that and right before my bedtime at 930pm on a weekend night. Lol

Remember when they made Carter give up control of his peanut farm? Lol

I too like wishful thinking.

they’ve been propagandized to believe so and they know that they will suffer social and professional ostracization. i don’t blame them; especially when they have families to feed and friends to protect within this system.

par for the course with it comes to liberals and conservatives

fwiw: i don’t think it’s hubris, i think it’s ignorance of the both the innocent and willful kind.

having been one of them in the past; i can understand why.

I’m responding in kind to a spiteful post.

yes, it the bread that keeps the plebs in line after their governor has shown her true colors with the ceo hotline; bread and circuses.

this is not progress; it’s a treat meant to distract you.

the other instances are a mixed blessing at best; no one cares if they’re here.

please go

one ceo get shot and she trips over herself to setup a hotline asap.

thousands of students suffer from malnutrition and housing problems; but they’ll get a biscuit years after they needed so now everything’s okay.

i’d like to think that the people at the icc & icj are waking up to the reality that they’re puppets; but my experiences with various law enforcement agencies remind me that they’re zealots who don’t care, so long as they feel empowered to push their world view onto other people.

it’s only “politics” when it doesn’t impact your life enough to make you realize that it’s not just politics.