I wasn't disagreeing with the article, more agreeing that the issue it brings up and advocates to avoid is indeed a big problem.
Why? Have military responses been shown to improve the situation in the past few decades? Isn't October 7 the direct result of decades of military responses by both sides? Wouldn't it make more sense to suppress that instinctive desire for revenge and say "enough is enough, this approach is clearly not working"? Especially if you are the only side in the conflict that has a chance to keep everyone on your side from acting independently since guerrilla cells don't exactly lend themselves to centralized control.
It is not that difficult to understand. Selling a service that costs money each month to run for a one time price is not sustainable.
Unfortunately the bickering over who has it worse often seems to undermine efforts to improve life for everyone at the oppressed end of the spectrum while the oppressor end of the spectrum gets away with more exploitation and gets ever richer and more powerful.
Protest is always valid
I wouldn't go that far. Protests can absolutely be used to subvert true opposition by funneling it via astroturfing and similar fake campaigns into ineffective channels.
I am referring to technological "innovations" that never made it because while they sounded good as an idea they turned out to be bad/useless in practice and also those that someone thought of in a "wouldn't it be great if we could do this" way but never really got a working implementation.
Flying cars might be a good, high profile example for the latter category. The former obviously has fewer famous examples because bad ideas that sound good at first are so abundant.
I don't think homeless people without a job can afford a plumber more.
This has also happened 100 times correctly to reject actually bad new technologies for every time it has been applied to the wrong technology that turned out to be actually useful.
if Trump continues to ignore legal precedent
Can you really be said to ignore something if you are totally ignorant of its existence?
It is almost as if connecting private and public channels together using a "do random shit" engine is not a good idea for security.
America (or any other country) was never great in the past, they just claim that because it is easier to sell "going back" to a time in the past people remember fondly than to change things to something completely new (like entirely new forms of exploitation by the rich). And for some reason people are too stupid to understand that doing the same things as in the past despite drastically different circumstances wouldn't even yield the same outcomes.
Then you are probably not worried about the question whether your society is in trouble or not, you know it.