I don't actually pick up where I left off in these threads because I generally don't care to see a lot of the spam.
In the TLR thread I had a response I didn't finish because life happens, but it was someone talking about folks leaving.
And it surprised me that a lot of people don't know that most of these folks are citizens of nowhere and can't "flee."
Just as a little back story, I went to college in 02. This was my welcome to college :
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I remember seeing gore lose and Obama win I that town.
But I learned a lot about folks there and later on as a Defense contractor.
And none of that made me feel better about people.
In a cynical world I tried to reject what ultimately made me more of a cynic.
So when y'all see y'all things like that's the will of the voters or what people support it is only apropos to what we're seeing and not in support of a larger moral or ethical system -- or not confined to it.
Lrgely, I just think that proximity ethics guides us more than we'd like to accept because it takes away the authority for people who want to reconcile what it means to be a better person.
For example,
Tldr, I think you all have a compelling argument for your support of palestianians and hoping to see a better world.
I've just never seen that play out so I don't lean into "best solution" narratives.