Blocked in Australia, which is even more expected. I’m amazed Aljazeera isn’t blocked here. Or anything the us and israel doesn’t like.

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?

Sorry, your scenario is too stretched for me to comment on it.

I can only comment regarding their patent system and I 100% agree that the north american patent system is a cancer on the entire world. A massive problem that needs addressing. But as mentioned before, you can worry, and work on more than one problem without invalidating them. But that problem involves much more variables and powerful companies/ people/ countries to be resolved. I won’t comment if that is the solution for the problem you present since I think it’s more complicated than that. But, again, I think destroying the north american patent system would benefit the whole mankind. I just have no idea how that can be solved without the whole world going against them.

The rest, I guess I can only say that you can’t judge which battles people decide to fight, if you agree they are fighting something bad. You fight to demolish their patent system and others fight to end their imperialism. Both fights are valid and everyone except the abusers would benefit from them.

I’m not arab, but as he said, you can worry about more than one thing. But I think the biggest difference with your tuberculosis example is: One is a problem due to lack of action, the other a problem due to direct action. You have to be competent to do something about one, while the other, just by not doing anything (by not giving them loads of money and weapons) they would already solve the problem.

So one problem requires effort to be solved, the other, they are putting effort to create the problem and it would be as easy as just not doing it. In theory pressuring them in just not doing something should be easier than doing other work.

Put in a different view, what would be your worse behaviour?

-A person you know died of turberculosis and you didn’t take them to the hospital

-A person you know died because you shoot them, or you gave someone a gun and money and told them they could shoot them?

Which action would get more people against you?

zero_gravitas posted a very educational video showing younger biden saying “if there were not an Israel, we’d have to invent one” and “the best 3 billion dollar investment we make”. So I don’t think he has a history of even pretending to stop them. It will be the same thing again, as it has been with almost every US president.

I remember having the luck of being in front of a tv when, before trump won for the first time, I saw him complaining about why american money goes to israel and if he wins he would stop that. At that time I knew his position would change completely once he was elected. But if anything, the crazy orange candidate has a much better history of being “against” israel than the other senile, though in the end it made no difference. Both supported them as much they could, and the girl would do the same.

But the fact that she showed them support just makes it worse. At least people who voted trump for the first time could be fooled into thinking he would do something about israel (if they ignore all his other insane promises).

So, you don’t have to worry. Israel wise I don’t think anything changed and the genocide would not be worse (as it can’t anyway) if trump lost.

Edit: I can’t find his post, but here’s the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HZs-v0PR44 Lovely leaders they have there. Not that Australia fares much better with military issues, but at least we are not so powerful, therefore not so dangerous.

is going to erode their already shaky position with purported allies.

As if… their history is full of stuff worse than this and nothing ever happened to them. Whatever chain they have in the ones they command is unbreakable. I think anything sort of nuking Palestine wouldn’t affect them.

They can literally bomb their allies if they don’t do what they want with no consequences. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing

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?

Isn’t the UK right handed, like here? How do you do with that? How did you take the car to europe?

No idea how it is in the US, but I imagine it’s the most car centric country in the world. I know from reddit that there’s a lot of people living in cars there.

How was it on the bicycle? I want to do that… did you stay in cities or wild? How do you do with all the water that needs to be carried? I wouldn’t do it on a city though. Staying on a tent in a city is too exposed for me. But I love the idea of even more freedom, not having to worry about car registration, fuel and fines.

So you have toilet in the car? My basically just have waste water from brushing my teeth, so it just goes straight to the street. Isn’t it too much issue to handle that? Though it must be nice to not have to look for toilet…

And your power is not solar?

Ordering things online, or anything that needs an address is still a big challenge for me. I’m trying for the first time ordering something to a post office and I’ll go get it to see if it works. I don’t think there amazon dropboxes here, but even if there were I would never buy something from amazon…

Sydney is not the worst. The worst one is Byron bay by far. I’ve never seen a more hostile place. But I certainly hope never to come back to Sydney either. NSW in general is pretty bad, with Queensland much more open to people living in cars.

I don’t like doing stuff in the van. I do kind of well too, but the other person has to host. I don’t feel well with random people coming in my van. But I know a lot of people are very social and do that. As long as they are quite… Party people destroy van life for everyone and end up making the councils hunt us. I imagine it’s what happened in Byron bay.

Diet is an issue… I would still like to know how to fix that other than eating out, which is pretty expensive. I certainly eat better when I have a place to stay.

I use open street map which is very good. And I can add things when they are not there so other people can see it. But some times it’s closed in the morning, or I’m parked too far away.

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.