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If you know the people in jail, maybe you could make a post about it? Though I don't know if that's invasion of privacy. But you posting about it here already kind of makes you like a celebrity to me. Stuff I read about but I would not think I would actually talk to someone who was in the news. I don't know anyone who was involved in that. I don't even think I know people who ended up in prison.

Eheheh that's a nice idea. Most places have a switch on the connection on the wall. I just turn that off if I can.

Headphones are not enough. I need to get blind. Or I should just learn to ignore it. I just can't.

You have such a positive point of view. It's interesting seeing how different people can be. I would focus obsessively on the part of that money that goes to those fossil fuel billionaires. You are focusing on the part where it goes to community programs.

Though I don't know where it goes. I just assumed it goes to them, like a big part of my taxes that also go to fund the military.

About activism, I've done a fair bit and it affected my life a lot. I'm an old pessimist guy. I just try not to help to make the problem worse now (making sure I don't fund them as much as I can). These things affect me too much. If I had to pay a fine for the activism I did in the past I could end up doing something really bad like destroying my life or someone else's. I'm a little too radical and I end up turning people away from my causes because of it. Nowadays I try (and fail) to not even talk about to people because I end up making them hate the cause.

I posted it here because I think most of the community agrees with it. Circlejerk you could say. If it was on reddit it would just lead to endless meaningless fights and abuses.

It's not activism. It just drives me crazy. I can't ignore the stuff I'm seeing and i can't concentrate on anything. If i want to promote some changes that would not be the way to do it. It's just that's it's like someone putting alcohol in my eyes. I have to turn it off or leave. When i can't i just leave.

I thought that could be him but i didn't see on wikipedia that he owns channel 9. I heard much about him but I've rarely seen his face.

I wouldn't doubt he is sad. To be that evil you have to have something wrong going on in your brain or life.

I hope it works out ok for you and others. I really admire that. Not only are you fighting for us for free but you're actually paying a massive price.

You guys are the veterans this country should have statues about. Instead we have statues of people who would shoot you.

So it's the same channel i see everywhere that makes me want to throw up. I keep changing channel in places i see that on and people change back, like in gyms. People around here actually like to feel their neurons melting. It doesn't just happen to be the default, it's what they want to see. They go after it.

I don't see much hope for this population.

And who's that guy? He looks like a sad villain. I hope he is very sad. But that might be why he does this. He wants to spread his misery.

22k? Holy shit. I would be so crazy angry. You're being force to financially reward the people destroying your future. That would eat me up inside even if that amount didn't hurt.

So they get rich destroying your future and you have to give them more money for it.

You guys are heroes. I couldn't take that. I'm glad there are people not like me. I would think non stop about a justice I can't make happen. Like some people's heads on a guillotine.

Do you get that on your record? If you get a job did it show you have criminal record?

Either way thank you and everyone involved for your sacrifice.

Is this sarcasm? Or is the last sentence really something someone could think?

Noooo! I don't care about Google play. I only use it from fdroid. It's the most important app on my phone! What will i do now?

I'm not sure if it's influence of propaganda. I used to be very active against israel and US some 15 years ago. I was sacrificing my life for it and I realized nothing would change but I was hurting myself. 15 years later nothing changed. It didn't change 15 years before I started either. So a long period of time will mean I won't live to see it.

I stopped getting involved and tried to just not know about it. The result is the same but I don't suffer. But living here it's impossible to ignore and I'm part of the problem. It won't change, but I'm helping to make it worse here

But yes, I'll do what you and jaek suggested until I figure out what to do. To me it's much more important to not help israel than it is to help those they destroy. And that's the main thing I want to do, not help them.

I'm in a small town, so not much going on here. And while the protests should continue and I'm happy with their numbers, the media actually manage to turn it against the cause and increase the general population support for this kind of atrocity. When I see the news on the tv covering protest I'm afraid, because I know exactly what it will show and I'm always right. They usually don't even mention what the protest is about and the few people they give voice and the morons they interview are always just talking about how dangerous the protesters are, how "against peace", how pro terrorists, how they damage the economy and how they will eat your dog and rape your kids. Basically inciting the population to protest against the protesters.

I have never seen such biased and clearly controlled media as here, except for the US. It's amazing how powerful they are. I know that in most countries they usually just show the israeli side and just "forget" to show the other one. But here it's a clear propaganda and manipulation. So if anything the average person who doesn't look for more info will just defend the war point of view more with the protests being shown on tv.

And it shows. Even here, where people are more "leftists" (whatever that means) I see many "fox news" points of view. On reddit it's a lost cause. And talking to the average people it's the same. Everyone just knows that "israel is fighting terrorists".

It's what I complained about on my other posts regarding the military monuments. It's a fundamental part of australian culture and I see little hope of that changing. The countries that show some courage against israel have a whole history of not admiring the military and not being dogs of the US that often. Or being muslim based countries.

So I don't see how that can change any time soon but that doesn't change that I am being part of the problem being here, and that people are being murdered with my support.

Supporting help for palestinians is good and should happen, like the protests. But that won't fix anything and will just have to be something that needs to be done forever. Or until there is no Palestine left.