[hypeatei]

> ICE's actions is very relevant and very important to you.

Maybe the first few stories are, but what past masked goons throwing up Nazi salutes and sending people to foreign labor camps do you need to keep up on? If you're into politics, then sure, but your average Joe probably doesn't need to know that they're, yet again, terrorizing people and acting like a secret police force.

[mslt]

Apparently more people need to see more information about those things because they’re still happening

[rockskon]

Maybe you need to read more news if you think we have people in charge who'd care about public opposition to the practice.

This is foisting misery on people who have no capacity to affect change.

[dangus]

No capacity to affect change?

Are we forgetting that this specific policy we are discussing was voted in by the public and won the popular vote barely more than a year ago?

I think if more people were legitimately better educated and informed that outcome might not have happened.

The problem is…who is doing the informing and educating? Oftentimes the sources taking up that role are doing so with motives that are not in the people’s best interests.

[rockskon]

Wow. Great. Which term is our President on again and can you confirm that time flows linearly and cannot, in fact, flow backwards to undo the election?

The public has no ability to affect change on the policy this Presidency makes. Especially not the public that is predisposed to dislike the President.

This is sadistic and selfish to believe the public must be relentlessly informed of these individual policies that they cannot do anything about. Anything they are informed about present day will almost certainly be forgotten years down the line. But they'll be stressed and unhappy along the way.

[dangus]

Well now you’re moving goalposts by adding specific time periods as qualifiers. So when you made your original statement, you meant to say that the ability to affect change ended recently? And now “This is foisting misery on people who have no capacity to affect change.”

Well, even that isn’t true. The congressional midterms are next year. Control over congress is on the ballot. Turnout will be the decider as it always is.

If “did not vote” was a candidate, it often wins elections.

In addition, local politics happen every year with higher levels of influence per person, and they often directly affect individuals more than national politics.

Going around telling people they have no impact guarantees that outcome.

[rockskon]

Considering time does, in fact, move linearly and only in one direction - it's a default. Not a moved goalpost.

And referring to the present in contrast with the next Presidential election - an event thematically related to the previous Presidential election that you referenced - it seemed relevant.

As for what people need to be informed about - they'll inform themselves via increased prices on just about everything due to tarriffs + continued lowered interest rates despite notable inflationary pressures.

I maintain it is cruel to relentlessly and aggressively inform people of the horrors of the world that they - and I repeat myself - cannot do anything about. From news media fewer and fewer trust every year.

[veidr]

effect change