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Lot of people in here who are very uncomfortable with the fact that the world is a messy place made up of almost entirely morally grey issues with exclusively morally grey situations. Good, now do something about it.
Like.. protest against it?
Hmm I wonder what sort of forms protesting a thing can take? Surely posts on the internet don't qualify right?
"Everything shit so why bother" is your take?
https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/war-for-oil-conspiracy-theories-may-be-right
Ignoring your sarcasm, yes protesting is one method of driving change, albeit one of the weakest ones.
No, posting online doesn’t count, at all.
Ah, the internet doesn't count at all, because it's not about voicing an opinion to the largest possible amount of minds that you're looking to change, but about shaking a sign and looking angry, and that only if there's at least a dozen people doing the same?
Yes, aha, mm, people having opinions never changed anything, people having opinions online never changed anything, never made people group together behind the same opinions, to protest for something, in such numbers they changed something? Yeah, I can't ever remember that happening.
#/S
Oh wait no, that's actually the thing the internet is infamous for.
Want me to start listing all the things internet protests have affected? Because I'm pretty sure comments on Lemmy have a char limit.
Why do you think gathering in front of the local townhouse to yell obscenities at local politicians is somehow "more real" protesting, despite the internet being objectively superior for sharing those protests around the world, actually influencing people.
Have you ever bought a product just because you saw an advert for it? Most people would say "no, I don't buy things based on ads I see", but advertising is one of the largest industries in the world.
'Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. '
You might say the same thing of online protests. However, I'd like to note that you and I are now talking, because of OP. So saying they had literally no effect is clearly false.
"That's stupid." "You're talking about it." "Youre right... they got me."
It's almost like the biggest and most complex information-transfer tool in human history can - surprise! - be used to transfer information.
doing anything about it is prevented by... the army
such an intelligent take.