cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37180089
Brett Wilkins Oct 06, 2025
"This genocide and other genocides are being enabled and fueled by our own governments, our institutions, our media, and companies. It is our responsibility to end that complicity… to use our privileges, our platforms, to take a stance against this, that is in every way unjustifiable,” Thunberg asserted.
“I will never, ever comprehend how humans can be so evil that you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades and decades of suffocating oppression, apartheid, occupation,” she added.
Here’s that droopy defeatist again. Everyone else but sad-socks here: look past, and forward, we can succeed in making change!
Naive optimism isn’t much better than defeatism. They’re both deviations from objectivity.
Agreed, but (and I suppose this means Lemmy is smaller than I’d like) I’ve seen this dude posting similar “both sides”, “we’re doomed” etc etc etc shit.
Hope is always the last thing to die, but we’ve gotta be real and take action to fix things while it’s still relatively easy to.