librehab

30/70 is good enough. Spend 70% of the time finding the people you blossom up with and keep 30% as acquaintances even if they are flawed, you will live life in proximity and seeing how they change is quite important to understanding what kind of political action works.

If you apply one set of standards, then you ought to apply it at first uniformly. If people don't talk about torture in the US, then they don't really care that torture is bad, they care about who it hits (not them, but the "other", the cruelty is the point) and that they are allied with the people doing the torturing.

Also: Don't try to convince people that can't be convinced, try to find out who to talk with matters. Of course you can explain, but you can't change minds, for that people must experience different social or material relations and events. I.e. be bullied by 70% of their co workers to join the union that is striking and join the strikes.

Finally people who are privileged and don't have to work for their money and come from privileged families have fun applying moral standards to your actions that they themselves won't follow. I.e. as student telling everyone how bad it is to work for bad corp and then working for one of the worst property companies on Earth.