drake@lemmy.sdf.orgtoWorld News@lemmy.world•‘Death is everywhere’: fears grow that Israel plans to seize land in GazaEnglish
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10 days agoWe need to stop expecting change to come from our rulers. We need to take change into our own hands.
We need to stop expecting change to come from our rulers. We need to take change into our own hands.
Israeli lebensraum, not Jewish. Conflating Judaism with Israel is anti-semitic.
You can’t vote to end the genocide. Democracy isn’t real.
I understand where you’re coming from, but if you dig deeper into the problem, I think that it becomes clearer and clearer that social media is more of a symptom than the cause of the problem. The real issue is that people are becoming more and more aware that the system is failing them - wages are stagnant but prices are soaring, protections against the worst excesses of corporations are eroding, climate change is causing people to lose their homes and livelihoods…
People are desperate for someone to blame and for an alternative. Fascism offers easy answers that let people blame some “others” but just makes things worse. Leftists have uncomfortable answers that require you to admit your complicity in the system before you can begin to dismantle it.