FridaySteve

Caring about other people enough to hate them

Wew, lad.

Elections are designed to be democratic. Political parties are largely unregulated and can generally make their own rules about who they choose to run as a candidate. Remember this next time the Republicans get a big group of powerful party members together to say how much they don't want a certain orange-tinted fascist to be their candidate, their party could have run someone else. Winning was more important. Similarly, the democrats are well within their rights and the law to have previously committed "superdelegates" or just to skip the primary process entirely and run the vice president.

Now they just walk into the street at any point

Face down, phone in hand...

The president is the leader of one branch of our three branch system. Cooperation between Mexico and the USA and Canada and the USA is generational and extends across various diverse dimensions like scientific cooperation, infrastructure protection, border security and law enforcement, fire protection and prevention, trade, and food safety, among others. It would take much much more than one presidential administration much longer than four years to make meaningful progress toward the goal of destroying all these cooperative agreements at all levels of government that took generations to build.

Donald Trump sucks but he isn't America, nor should we be judging any country by the actions of its corrupt billionaire leadership.

Also an unmarried rabbi of his age at that time was really unusual.

You want to post on social media so others will engage. Their engagement will educate them. That education will cause them to want to take action by posting on social media.

If you don't see how this is a corporate waste of time I can't help you.

Also, what about engaging your community via social media? What about propagating anti-fascist messaging or spreading awareness about other issues via social media?

You mean slacktivism? I'm not sure what you think that accomplishes.

Me too, wtf is going on?

American adults who are employed (using that as a proxy for people who can be reasonably expected to do something about the problems you listed) spend about 132.8 billion hours a year on social media. The US military (largest military in human history, capable of taking on the entire rest of the world combined) works about 3.33 billion hours per year across all six branches.

If the average working American reduced their social media usage by about seven minutes a day, it would equal about double the amount of hours worked by the US active duty military. I would agree with the comment you replied to that a good first step to making proactive change in our communities with an eye to resolving these larger global issues could start with getting off social media, even for literally seven minutes.

I can think of five reasons you shouldn't do this.

Whoops now I can only think of 4.

I am enlightened by my own intelligence.