OrteilGenou comments on Finneas and Every Other Ed Sheeran Opener Have Abandoned His Tour in Support of Macklemore

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 point 16 hours ago (2 children)

Being for, against or neutral about something that is happening doesn’t stop it from happening.

FTFY

Having an opinion that aligns with your beliefs is great. Israel should be ashamed of what they have done, and their leaders should be tried at the Hague for crimes against humanity.

That happens to be my opinion. If someone rolled up and we started talking about it and they said they didn't really know much about it, in the past that would be a surprise perhaps, and maybe a conversation would start. Now if someone said that there would be fuckwits calling them monsters while they pick Cheetos out if their unwashed navels and congratulate themselves for helping to stop a genocide.

Or to rephrase an old classic: opinions are like assholes, people love to spread them online and act like it means something.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 point 16 hours ago (1 child)

There are opinions, and there are verified, objective facts. You’re using the same logic that climate deniers use. Ohhhhh there’s just no way to know, I’m not convinced, climate goes in cycles.

No, you don’t get to say that, it’s not an opinion. It’s just a denial of objective and rigorously proved and peer reviewed facts.

Shame on you for denying the objectively proven and defined genocide. There is no debate. Only facts and perpetrators.

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[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 point 16 hours ago

Ah, so by saying that Israel is wrong and their leadership should be tried for crimes against humanity, I am denying a genocide?

Your entire comment is simply incorrect, pulled out of thin air, and yet you put it out there with confidence, as though you were propagating some eternal, objective truth.

I'll put it plainly: your reliance on the false truth that your opinion in and of itself makes a difference, and the aggression with which you push that lie makes me think that you're acting at cross purposes to what you claim to be.

If you were more than just a collection of letters on a screen you would have no problem discussing that what we are doing here, chatting on a platform in the far corners of the Internet, amounts to Jack shit in real terms. Trying to convince people otherwise would serve only to push them away from action, and closer to a certainty that at least they were good people. The shame, I am afraid, is on you.

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