Haha I love it when large corporations are down to earth and have a sense of humor. If you think about it they’re just like us :)

No if. You run torture camps where you detain people you’ve kidnapped from around the world. You kill innocent fishermen with navy seals. You murder entire weddings in drone strikes. You bomb baby food factories. You arm the Indonesians to carry out a genocide in East Timor. You drop chemical weapons on Vietnam. You bomb Cambodia and Laos, rendering about a million homeless. You kill one million in Iraq. You fund a genocide in Palestine. You fund a genocide in Guatemala. You bombed Yugoslavia when a diplomatic alternative that you proposed is on the table. You’ve turned Libya into an open air slave market. You’ve had Cuba in an economic stranglehold for decades, culminating in the current crisis. You’re the only nation that ever dropped an atomic bomb on civilian centers, and you did it twice. Six figure death toll those days alone. There’s no if. You’re a barbaric shitstain of a nation. Death to America.

You don’t have a leg to stand on, and it’s painfully obvious that you know it.

Do you ever reread the same sentence in a book? Does it ever help?

Right. In some situations, that’s probably the right thing. I’m not sure about OP’s situation, but this comic resonates with me for the following scenarios (among many, many others):

• doing my taxes
• applying for jobs
• making a GP appointment for mental health issues, or literally anything else
• planning my wedding
• doing the laundry
• sending a “happy birthday” text to my brother (literally just “Happy birthday!” and a suitable emoji would do)

In all of these cases, I know what to do, and I want to do it, and I’m able to do it. I just don’t. Somehow, I just don’t. I just can’t get myself to do the thing. If that doesn’t resonate with you, or your immediate reaction is “oh, just do the thing!”, then maybe you’re not the target audience of this comic.

Have you considered directing your ire at the folks who’ve bought our politicians to advocate for pro-fossil fuel policies, and the folks who bought our media to popularize pro-fossil fuel positions instead of at their victims?

I figured people could extrapolate, but here goes for your benefit:

If you can vote for politicians P1 through PN where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and all of them are bought by the fossil fuel companies, to what extent are you to blame?

Are the cars Ferrairs? The planes private jets? The trucks and cargo ships transporting exquisite furniture? The farmers producing kobe beef?

The point went so far over your head that you won’t be able to observe light emitted by the point until at least a couple years from now.

Sure, but making it worse at a slightly slower rate is still making it worse. The most recent democratic presidential candidate was pro fracking.

I was responding to

Tbf they voted for them

hence my focus on voting, because that’s what he was talking about. But also your broader comment is not a good argument for ageism. Plenty of members of the boomer generation exercised other political options than voting. They were not successful, but many of them did try. At any rate, blaming an entire generation for policy failures is about as valid as blaming Trump’s policy failures on folks who voted for Harris.

If you can vote for politician A and politician B, and both of them are bought by the fossil fuel companies, to what extent are you to blame?

And if citizens can be held accountable for the actions and choices that their goverment has made, even if they have no real say in them, and that government has committed war crime after war crime abroad, killing literal millions, does that mean citizens are a legitimate target for retaliatory attacks? Was the Dresden firebombing justified? Was 9/11 justified? Were the atomic bombs dropped on Japan justified?

oh no someone’s robbing the bank, somebody do something!

don’t worry, I’ve got a banana peel and some lint from my pocket!

how is that gonna help?

you’re being defeatist!

That’s not true, didn’t a couple of them sit down in protest a while back?

How’s that working out for you?

I agree, we must at all costs keep doing what we’ve always done. How else are are we ever going to turn this ship around?

I love pancakes

Oh so you hate waffles?

“This is not a perfect solution, and therefore it is not a solution” is called the nirvana fallacy, and is poor reasoning. Somehow people are really susceptible to it.

The argument “this solution only partially solves the problem, and further entrenches us into a system that makes the problem this solution aims to solve much, much worse in the long run, and as such the benefits do not outweight the costs” is a different argument, but it is often mistaken for the former argument because people are incapable of long term thinking.

I don’t think anyone thinks that. What people do think is that when you attack the form of a comment rather than its content, then you don’t really have a response. I strongly suggest you try to find an actual rebuttal to what I said rather than whatever the fuck this is. You might learn something in the process, which is something you seem to be in desperate need of.

Thank you for your explanation, I understand things so much better now! I’ve always celebrated the suffragettes as heroes, but no longer! I always celebrated Nat Turner, John Browne, and the abolitionists, but I see now that they’re evil too! I always celebrated the Hatian slave revolt, the resistance movements against the nazis, the ANC, the Warsaw uprising, the Ukrainian defense, the fight for Indonesian independence by Sukarno, and so on! They all used violence, what a fool I was for celebrating them! Thank you for making me see the light!

I completely fell for the “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” take from famed fascist Desmond Tutu. But thanks to your comment, I now see that violence bad. And if guy do violence, then guy bad! I can’t believe I never thought of that. What a well thought out take! Good job!

Whataboutism, moving the goal posts. Admit that your framing of “not stopping the genocide” was completely wrong. The Biden administration was fully complicit.