what are you doing to solve the problem? let people have their harmless display of solidarity. worst case, it has no effect: best case, it puts extra pressure on leaders and spurs others into action.
Almost every tweet that says 'I stand in solidarity with X' was written while sitting down, alone, at a safe distance from X.
#signaling
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History shows the worst case is much, much worse than neutral.
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yea but i got 4 likes
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And the button "tweet" was hit with smug satisfaction of participating without any actual effort exerted or impact made.
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Isn't the whole fact that it's a public signal one of the main points of "standing in solidarity with"? Like anti-emperor's new clothes kind of thing, where just saying it aloud matters? I see your point about no skin in the game though.
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With a false sense of moral superiority in their mind
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Establishing common knowledge about support for political factions has strategic value
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I sit in solidarity with non-looters.
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I'm tweeting this at ~6000 mi distance from you.
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you SIR have earned your reddit gold!
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