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   Pauline von Hellermann (pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 22:04:06 JST Pauline von Hellermann

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   • Jack of all trades

   @jackofalltrades yes, i know. Of course not just Gaza. It’s just that in this csse our governments are so obviously complicit as they are funding and endorsing it all. And it is pretty bad all round. But yes, so much more, of course. I think about all this a lot. Like, how much should you care for the suffering of strangers? How much should you talk about it?

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     Jack of all trades (jackofalltrades@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 22:04:07 JST Jack of all trades

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     @pvonhellermannn

     Not just Gaza. Ukraine, South Sudan, Myanmar, Mexico etc. Not just war either. Modern slavery, conflict minerals, sex trafficking, poverty, famines, etc...

     Humanity was able to build this complex world of global supply chains, but showing compehension or empathy of such a big system is too big of a task for our small brains, I fear.

     How can we? We weren't build for this.

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     Pauline von Hellermann (pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 22:04:08 JST Pauline von Hellermann

     I know Mastodon is designed to keep everything nice and to shield us from the horrors of the world, and that it is good for us to only look at cat pictures all day and cheer each other up, but honestly: sometimes i also think that that is just a lot of crap and everyone who turns away and continues with their nice privileged life as if all is ok is complicit #Gaza

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     Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) (tokyo_0@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 23:39:29 JST Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

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     • Jack of all trades
     • David Njoku

     @davidnjoku You weren't the only one surprised by that. In the end I think he did pay a price, but it took a long time and wasn't expensive enough.

     Personally I think the solution is reconnection, building awareness etc though I'm no expert. I think social media does scare them; that's why a lot of discourse on Twitter became so toxic - anything really contentious was quickly infiltrated by shills and trolls, and I don't think they were all doing it for free.

     @pvonhellermannn @jackofalltrades

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     David Njoku (davidnjoku@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 23:39:30 JST David Njoku

     • Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)
     • Jack of all trades

     @tokyo_0 That's such a good way of putting it. Maybe I was naive back then, but I remember being shocked that 100,000 of us took to the streets saying we should not attack Iraq and yet Blair ignored us, and didn't really pay a political price for it. And if they're able to ignore people on the actual streets, imagine how little attention they pay to Twitter rants.

     I don't know what the solution is, but something's broken.

     @pvonhellermannn @jackofalltrades