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Taking a side requires information and opportunity.
Without a reliable understanding of the conflict, you end up a QAnon mark, siding with the oppressors because you've been propagandized into believing they're the oppressed.
Without meaningful opportunity, you're just posting memes into the void to relieve your own anxiety.
Who can you trust? Who can you aid? Who can you collaborate with effectively? If you can't answer these questions, what do you think you're accomplishing?
This out of context quote will help Ill-informed people justify their strong opinions.
All quotes are out of context. Else they'd be books.
And they all help Ill-informed people justify their strong opinions. So it checks..
A lot of people oppose information and deny opportunities because they're "political"
A lot of "political" information is deceptive and loaded with bias.
Everything is political. Which is the point of this post. People who want to avoid politics are hypocrites.
You can't bemoan someone's disinterest in partisan slop if it isn't their favorite flavor of slop.
People who want to turn off the ads filling up their newspapers and televisions are perfectly rational.
What we lack isn't human interest in world events. It is a news media that's serving up valuable and actionable information.
The business-support model for news has dissolved away its educational value. All you have left is Page Six and a bunch of jerk off Op-Ed lightly sprinkled with State Department PR and guerrilla marketing.
This conversation is not as specific as you're acting like it is.