The Minneapolis City Council has overridden a mayoral veto with a 9-3 vote and approved a resolution that calls for a cease-fire in Gaza and for an end to U.S. military funding to Israel.
Yeah, but is doing something, no matter how small, better than remaining silent on this? Knowing the Minneapolis city council, at least some of those people are sincere about this and not just making a cynical political move.
I guess. It’s a waste of time to do this but it’d also be an even bigger waste of time to oppose it.
It just makes one think… why?
Of all the better things the council could be doing, they choose to do this? A more or less worthless show of support that does essentially nothing? This “something” that was done is so small that I think it isn’t worth even its cost of time and paper.
Don’t get me wrong, that doesn’t mean I oppose a ceasefire, but this is the equivalent of “keyboard activism” that does utterly nothing toward the cause but makes those doing it feel good about themselves.
If they really wanted to help suffering Palestinian civilians, they could have promoted charities distributing aid or made donations to other such organisations. But this is just useless lip service.
Well crime, homelessness, drug use, potholes, people who walk with their friends right next to them on the sidewalk so you can’t pass, and that one street where its hard to make a left turn have all been fixed so…
No but seriously probably some citizens are like hey this is bad say its bad, if everyone does, theyll stop, so councilmembers are like ok sure whatever.
I’m honestly asking: What is this even going to do? The city of Minneapolis doesn’t have any federal authority, so is this just for the image?
Absolutely. They’ve now done something.
Yeah, but is doing something, no matter how small, better than remaining silent on this? Knowing the Minneapolis city council, at least some of those people are sincere about this and not just making a cynical political move.
I guess. It’s a waste of time to do this but it’d also be an even bigger waste of time to oppose it.
It just makes one think… why?
Of all the better things the council could be doing, they choose to do this? A more or less worthless show of support that does essentially nothing? This “something” that was done is so small that I think it isn’t worth even its cost of time and paper.
Don’t get me wrong, that doesn’t mean I oppose a ceasefire, but this is the equivalent of “keyboard activism” that does utterly nothing toward the cause but makes those doing it feel good about themselves.
If they really wanted to help suffering Palestinian civilians, they could have promoted charities distributing aid or made donations to other such organisations. But this is just useless lip service.
Well crime, homelessness, drug use, potholes, people who walk with their friends right next to them on the sidewalk so you can’t pass, and that one street where its hard to make a left turn have all been fixed so…
No but seriously probably some citizens are like hey this is bad say its bad, if everyone does, theyll stop, so councilmembers are like ok sure whatever.