What do you do when people don't care?

[kwakigra@beehaw.org]

Something I've had to accept over the course of my life is that the vast majority of humans will passively accept anything as long as they feel like there's something they can do to not be killed. Only when it feels out of control whether they might be killed will the majority of people feel the need to act and no sooner. There has never been any changing this. Fortunately the vast majority of people are not needed to affect positive change. People who care need to set the tone and followers will follow as they do. Your efforts would be better served among people actively resisting or building structures that benefit people.

[socialmediarefugee@lemmy.ml]

Read about the Weimar government, the economic crash, the street battles and the Freikorps, etc.

[kusimulkku@lemm.ee]

I don't do anything particular, I guess

[moonmelon@lemmy.ml]

In Luke, when Jesus says (again) to love thy neighbor literally the next question someone poses to him is "but who is my neighbor?" Jesus responds with the tale of the Good Samaritan. In this story there is a man, a traveler from a foreign land, who was robbed and beaten and left on the roadside, suffering and ignored by passing strangers (including a priest). The Good Samaritan feeds him, fixes him up, and puts him up at an inn.

There's two laws... two. The first is to love God, the second is to "go and do likewise" as the Good Samaritan did. I'm a godless commie and I know this shit.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+10%3A25-37&version=NIV

[irelephant@lemm.ee]

I sometimes wonder is Trump does a lot of crazy sounding shit to make people who speak against him sound insane.

[jjjalljs@ttrpg.network]

A good Christian would let people stay in their house, though. If they were robbed, they would still have treasure in heaven.

More Christians faith is paper thin at best.

[dmention7@lemm.ee]

You can tell OP does not believe any person outside of America is human.

You did a lot more than conclude they have either been tuned out or need to re-think some things, and you know it.

Get out of here with that "If you're not vocally against every evil at all times... " bullshit. It's got the same energy as injecting "but what about men?" into every conversation about women's problems.

[jmj88@lemm.ee]

They’ve been doing this shit for decades. Why all the sudden are you in such a frenzy?

[index@sh.itjust.works]

Now it's even worst ok but we are discussing why people don't care and my suggestion to find an answer is to think about why you didn't care in the past when it was bad already.

[geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml]

No. This is pointing out that there have been concentration camps and extermination for a year and a half and people have not cared for a year and a half.

Weird point to start noticing that people do not care.

[index@sh.itjust.works]

less stupid than the one you just made

[alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

My (great)-grandparents were part of the Dutch resistance during WW2. Along with a full 1.5% of the population.

Most people will not do anything, even if they are literally rounding up people for a genocide.

On the more positive side, a lot of people will support the resistance in small ways.

The number of people who actually, whole heartedly collaborated with the Nazi's was quite small.

Even some of the German soldiers stationed in their village would turn a blind eye. Some of them realized they were on the wrong side and they just did the bare minimum of what they needed to do to not get in trouble and not get killed.

[darkfuture@lemmy.world]

You don't.

A large swath of Americans have made it clear they don't care to pay attention and won't care until it personally affects them.

So we're simply going to have to watch our nation decline until the majority of Americans have personally been affected. Then we'll begin a long, difficult path to gaining back what we lost, just to get back to where we were before the decline happened. Then we'll be happy to be back in the same shitty situation we were before and probably let things slide back into a decline again.

Americans are stupid. And there's nothing you can do to change that.

[darkfuture@lemmy.world]

Trump won and the amount of people here throwing the Nazi word around still don’t realise how self defeating they are.

Sometimes you have to call Nazis Nazis. And people who support Nazis are Nazis. And sometimes you can't deprogram a Nazi.

These aren't victims. They're intentionally malicious people.

I have the urge to help victims. I have another urge entirely in regards to Nazis.

[tanisnikana@lemmy.world]

Look for the helpers.

[walk_blessed@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

You do understand that it's possible to oppose genocide on principle wherever it happens and to still be able think it's alarming when it escalates further, right?

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

I agree with your analysis of Trump's surprising victory. His fellow republicans didn't expect it because they don't understand his charisma. I don't think he does either, he just thinks he's irresistible and that his critics are irrational. But no one in his party will be next in line. Being VP won't give bestow that on Vance, except procedurally if Trump croaks in office. No Republican all-star has Trump's weird Pied Piper quality, and he will never anoint a direct successor because that's not in his personality. Trump gives people his blessings to help them into subordinate positions, and that's all. When he's gone I think it will be a wild scramble, every man for himself - which with any luck will disorganize the party enough for a well chosen Democrat to win the next election.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Okay Rambo, have fun stormin' da kessel.

[geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml]

You are entirely missing the point.

Being surprised the average American is fully on board with concentration camps and genocide should not come as a surprise anymore.

[nauticalnoodle@lemmy.ml]

If the concentration camps were started during the Obama administration and (nobody cared), then were operated during the first Trump admin and (the only caring-concern was performative) then they continued to operate under the Biden admin (while still nobody cared) then why would people suddenly start caring now?