• Kwakigra@beehaw.org
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    4 days ago

    Because understanding that the cause is poverty encourages everyone who understands it to focus on solving poverty. Poverty should not be allowed. If there was no poverty in the US there would be less of an incentive to do desperate things such as join a gang of any size.

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      4 days ago

      Yes, I agree, but now we’re at least 2 understanding that, but nothing will change. It probably won’t change in the next 50 years.

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        3 days ago

        If you think discussion and communication are so worthless… Why keep commenting on Lemmy? We are all here to exchange ideas and I think that we can agree that ideas and how they spread can change the world in a big way.

        Silence/lack of discussion is part of what has allowed this issue to become so serious.

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          3 days ago

          What issue are we talking about? US American imperialism, or wars in general? Because I think both have been discussed and talked about a lot since the seventies. And I don’t think that we’re getting anywhere close to an improvement, looking at what the US does to south americans in boats right now.

          Talking is a good start, but what we need are actions. And education, but I am not sure how we could get any of them. Talking on Lemmy definitely doesn’t help a bit.