Do you ever think about how many hours people all over the world spent these past 2 years protesting against the genocide in Gaza and how little it moved the people in power? - ThreadSky

lexialex.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Do you ever think about how many hours people all over the world spent these past 2 years protesting against the genocide in Gaza and how little it moved the people in power?

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ahmedaa3.bsky.social•1 day ago

How is it possible that no country is able to intervene to stop this war? 💔

dodgeintercept1.bsky.social•1 day ago

America is too powerful

ahmedaa3.bsky.social•1 day ago

The strong must protect the weak, and this is a law all over the world. Why did they abandon us? They might do the same to other countries.

dodgeintercept1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Israel has an iron clasp on the American government via the Israeli SuperPAC AIPAC @trackaipac.bsky.social

ahmedaa3.bsky.social•1 day ago

If it is not strong 💔

bluesun99.bsky.social•2 days ago

Try last 7 decades; that’s how long the Palestinians have endured the genocide in Gaza.

Israelis have outdone the Nazis.

mercurygirl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Protest that does not materially impede empire in a direct way seems to be totally ineffectual at this point.

godless2.bsky.social•1 day ago

The rich are insulated from protest. Protests must disrupt the daily lives of the middle class to be effective.

mxargent.bsky.social•2 days ago

World's ran by horrible dogs. Some are less horrible than others, yes, but end of the day they're all horrible.

autopostai.bsky.social•2 days ago

ugh, why did those protests fall on deaf ears tho?

maguerrete.bsky.social•2 days ago

'Western Values' politicians need to be discarded. Shredded and put into landfill. They are nothing to do with us. If they are not representative of humanity, and issues to do with the preservation of humanity and all living things, they are just dead matter. Get rid of them. Start again.

pattymacavity.bsky.social•2 days ago

I do.

catsaremypeople.bsky.social•2 days ago

Calling, writing, emailing, signing petitions, showing up. Their reply? "eh....."

phokion.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes. I’m worried that governments ignore peaceful protests

godless2.bsky.social•1 day ago

Read "How Nonviolence Protects the State" by Peter Genderloos. Good insight into why declarations of peaceful protests limits the effectiveness of actions. Like a union declaring they won't strike before contract negotiations.

gordonvincent.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's almost as if nobody ever stopped a genocide by protesting it.

Ask the Greatest Generation how we stopped the Holocaust.

The answer may surprise you!

dodgeintercept1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Families who's bloodline have lived in Palestine for hundreds of years, wiped out by Israel.

dodgeintercept1.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm not shocked at anything the government does anymore because once they can support genocide everything else is easy.

jethanded-wyvern.bsky.social•2 days ago

Only constantly.

pitthewelder.bsky.social•1 day ago

Have you ever thought how little the Billionaire owned news and media platforms report on what happens in the rest of the world, if it does not suit their agenda?

minniesmum.bsky.social•2 days ago

Often 😢😢😢

samkurd.bsky.social•2 days ago

Quite a lot, yeah, it's yet another example of how little The Will of The People really matters to folks in government.

citzan.bsky.social•1 day ago

My mind is now just numb at all this… just listless thumb flicking through hellscape
https://bsky.app/profile/citzan.bsky.social/post/3lp5ykfnf2c2e

citzan.bsky.social•1 day ago

And then I realize we are all delusional in our various hopes… Apologies.

https://bsky.app/profile/citzan.bsky.social/post/3lp4vuu63oc2s

jmak2.bsky.social•2 days ago

We need a worldwide general strike and millions of us marching into gaza.

gordonvincent.bsky.social•2 days ago

Is that how we stopped the Holocaust? By holding a general strike and going into the death camps ousrlves?

Or did we in fact do somethimg very different?

enigmagrape.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thinking about that and this at the same time https://bsky.app/profile/weloveluigi.bsky.social/post/3lp3bprnrek2p

comicbookmalc.bsky.social•2 days ago

That fucking thread though....

lexialex.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm blocked by the OP so I could only read that one reply

l30k03.bsky.social•2 days ago

l30k03.bsky.social•2 days ago

That last skeet from the OP was worth the effort

comicbookmalc.bsky.social•2 days ago

you dont even want to know

freakademic.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's weird to see someone slowly descend into talking about "national character" without even realizing that's what they're doing.

'Americans are gamblers. Always have been. Ever since the American Revolution.'

freakademic.bsky.social•2 days ago

lexialex.bsky.social•2 days ago

There are probably thousands of cases like this

exostrologist.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah, Yigal Amir assassinated Yitzhak Rabin for attempts at peace. An Israeli "Waluigi" if you will.

frankexchange.bsky.social•2 days ago

Reminds me of 2003, Iraq war, the massive protests against it that didn't achieve anything.

mxargent.bsky.social•2 days ago

“During the Vietnam War... every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.” --Kurt Vonnegut

lexialex.bsky.social•2 days ago

I was there. In hindsight, my generation shouldn't have let that slide. Millions of people on the streets for a year and they invaded anyway...and we all just moved on.

frankexchange.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yup. I walked, I argued, I protested, all in vain. Still sick in my stomach, and it's all happening again and again and again and it's getting worse and fuck that shit.

anarchofliss.bsky.social•2 days ago

I was there too. Biggest weekend and weekday protests in UK history (still!) and… nothing. Just Blair telling us to get fucked, and participating in that series of war crimes with glee.

No surprise the protests do nothing. Now if they were *riots*…

lexialex.bsky.social•2 days ago

You know, this should have been the moment progressive/left Brits turned on Labour for good

anarchofliss.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah; it certainly destroyed my own sympathy for Labour - what little was left after the naked authoritarianism of people like Jack Straw and David Blunkett!

godless2.bsky.social•1 day ago

To stay healthy, forests sometimes have to burn.

sorems12.bsky.social•2 days ago

I live in London and I've protested several times and our government won't stop supporting and sending arms to Israel.

Nothing is moving them.

In fact, the police keep trying to catch some protestors out and prosecute some of us.

I feel very helpless about all of this.

oasisbysea.bsky.social•1 day ago

We are the only ones moving them. The media is complicit. Without protest they wouldn’t even be talking about Israel blocking aid. They want us to feel helpless and alone. But most people agree that Israel should stop bombing children. I’m sending petitions daily and writing to my MP.

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