Yeah so Biden did an executive order to forgive student debt, it got challenged in the courts and so it didn't happen.
People saying "Democrats should just do executive orders like Trump does" need to look into who's on the Supreme Court.
The "do everything by EO" strat only works for a party that has had a loyal voting base for decades so they have control of the courts.
Sorry to interrupt the "both sides" narrative leftists/MAGAs love so much.
Yeah their goal is to get attention for themselves (and probably social media monetization and donations from suckers) by acting like vandalism will have any real effect on anything.
Like what else could their actions ever possibly accomplish?
Do you think lemmy sets public policy? The only thing that happens here is people comment on shit. So you're bothered by comments to the effect of "influencers tell kids to do stupid shit and sometimes kids die because of it, and this is bad."
Why do you think that freedom of speech means no one is allowed to criticize speech? Criticism is also speech.
You're talking about a war and you refuse to discuss one of the belligerents in that war. You refuse to even try to understand the conflict because actually looking into what Hamas has done and is currently doing means you have to think about reality and you prefer the sanitized propaganda over reality.
Methinks this is why you want my speech to be banned. You want the world to be a simplified good guys vs. bad guys narrative so you can vandalize something and feel like you're on the good guy side.
https://amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/palestine-hamas-targeting-protesters-gaza/ https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-says-two-its-us-aid-workers-injured-gaza-2025-07-05/
I understand it may be upsetting that your friends are cosplaying as the people that do these kinds of things, but that's the reality of it. Your protests aren't going to influence Hamas to release the hostages. Nothing you say and do will change the actions of Hamas, especially if you continue to look the other way about their actions. Israel is not going to leave their people prisoners of Hamas. So nothing you say or do will change anything about this scenario. Link whatever you want to the word genocide, your actions are irrelevant because the monstrous actions of Hamas (which you pretend to ignore) made you irrelevant. You want people to listen to you, but why should anyone listen to you when you're so disconnected from reality?
A non-violent resistance movement would successfully lead to a Palestinian state. Hamas fucks that up, these Palestine Action idiot also fuck that up too, but obviously on a much much smaller scale. You're hurting Palestinians because you treat them as pawns in your thirst for violence and destruction.
You're just creating false dichotomies left and right and straw-manning all over the place.
Nobody is supporting genocide, that's just you straw-manning the opposition because you don't want to discuss the complexities of the issue.
Violence is happening in a conflict you don't understand. You don't want to even talk about Hamas because it spoils your narrative. You can't to explain how creating violence in the west will result in the release of the hostages Hamas is holding. So you just avoid the subject. In fact your actions might encourage Hamas to hold out longer and that will prolong the suffering of Palestinians. Which is why I say you don't actually care about Palestinians.
You don't want to understand the conflict you claim to care about because you only care about a bullshit internet narrative. Hamas is still holding hostages and the war will continue regardless of what you do. So as much as you try to frame it as genocide vs. vandalism, we all know that's complete bullshit. The vandalism will not impact what happens in this war (regardless of how you want to term it) so it's just people doing vandalism and ruining their lives to impress people on social media.
It sometimes is. The character Shylock was Jewish. He was also someone who loaned money at high interest rates.
Trump was talking about borrowing money, not about Jews. So in that context, probably not antisemitic. Though given the audience, it could be a dog whistle.
It's mostly a nothing burger.
So just another case of attacking Trump on something unimportant and diverting attention from the actual terrible things he's doing.
Your TikTok addiction may have turned you into a psychopath. "Kids die all the time, what's the big deal?"
The gun rights crowd has better arguments about why their hobby is more important than kids dying.
Banned from humanity.
What do you mean by this? Is that a death threat?
So you agree with censorship. You just disagree on which people should be censored.
I want the war to end. The only way the war ends is if Hamas releasing the hostages. If your protests were denouncing Hamas and calling upon them to release the hostages, then I might believe you care about Palestinians.
But you don't really care about them. You're just using Palestinian civilians the same way Hamas does: sacrificing them to justify the existence of a violent group.
There is a significant movement of Gazans protesting against Hamas rule. You admire these Palestine Action idiots, I admire Palestinians protesting against the oppressive Hamas government... in the middle of a war. Palestinians in Gaza struggle with forming and kind of opposition to Hamas because Hamas will torture people to death for speaking out against them.
I look at the photo in article and I see a bunch of white kids cosplaying as Palestinians at a protest in a western country. Cultural appropriation of the suffering of people in a place they've never been to. Suffering they have no understanding of. You've probably never even heard of Palestinians being tortured by Hamas for speaking out or the Hamas attack on food distribution that happened just yesterday because you're in an internet bubble that bans anything that doesn't conform to a narrative.
I respect actual Palestinians living in Gaza that protest against authoritarians. You respect some white kids living in an internet bubble that cosplay as Palestinians and vandalize shit. But go on believing you have some internet fabricated moral high ground just because you can spell the word "genocide".
Those movements succeeded because they were lead by people that has clear goals and were able to make plans. They weren't random people just doing random acts of vandalism to get monetization from tech bro billionaires.
You're assuming Iran has competent leadership.