Thanks for asking this question. I have enjoyed reading the answers people gave you.

what do you want from a 1500 year old book

The question isn’t what do you want from an old book, it’s what do you want from a book people are choosing to follow.

The problem is that billionaires should not exist but come on. $80 billion already donated. $7 Billion more just for Africa. Hundreds of millions in malaria research.

Philanthropists hoarding wealth and resources and then getting to choose which of the poors to allow to have any is actually part of the problem, even if it makes you feel good.

We saw that when Gates leveraged his contributions to force a vaccine that had been developed with public money for the benefit of humankind, to become patent locked and hard for the Third World to access or afford.

This. Thank you.

That was a villain level move from Gates. The behaviour of the rich nations towards the LICs over covid vaccines was absolutely shameful and destroyed the illusion of Gates’ benevolence.

He was until he forced patents onto a vaccine that was supposed to be free to the entire world.

Gates is responsible for millions of people in the Third World dying or getting long covid.

It’s probably no one that either you or Trump has heard of.

Bold of you to assume he knows who is pulling his strings.

Thanks, that’s very interesting, I will experiment some time. I found kbin utilized the fediverse more than lemmy as well, but it mostly died off.

What’s the piefed experience like, out of interest? I haven’t tried it yet.

Successful in their aims.

What on earth makes you think I was referring to “white people” getting involved in non-white struggle??? Modern American race politics is meaningless in the context of the last thousand years of historical change.

I recommend you get yourself a copy of, say, The People’s History of the World and read up on social change in ancient Rome, the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Caliphates etc.

What I am talking about is simply a matter of historical record.

A specifically non-white non-western example I can give you off the top of my head is the importance of the involvement of warrior caste people like Adbaraya Toya in the Haitian revolution.

Your complaint was that it had mostly been met with silent downvotes.

Which tracks with my point.

Embedding that pic would be a crime.

Edit: I’m happy to wear the drive-by downvotes, but I had hoped for some more compelling rebuttals

The perfect is the enemy of the good. It’s that simple. Nothing you’ve said really makes sense as an argument for why Greta Thunberg shouldn’t do what she does. It’s just an argument that we also need other people contributing other things.

Adjust your settings then, don’t cry to us.

Historically speaking, successful social change for the better, eg revolutions, has almost always come only when certain middle class/privileged people joined with underprivileged people.

Attacking anyone who is richer or whiter than yourself, when they are on the same side as you, is stupid.

My thoughts exactly.

It has always been this way. When you get old, 15 year olds and 19 year olds start to all look the same.

Similarly, to teenagers a 40 year old and a 60 year old look the same. Old.

Tom from Myspace never treated us like this.

Worth noting its common for these gang members to be forcibly recruited as children or teens so even a lot of the tatooed ones are akin to child soldiers.

You must be Ho, with all that computer knowledge.

I kind of hate it when other people do it though, so I don’t. But admittedly it would be effective.