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.
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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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