Recognizing the need for force, and having the skillset to actually carry it out are two very, very different animals.
Idk why people are always so quick to tell folks to DIY this shit when another poster acknowledges the necessity.
If I find my living space is suddenly infested with roaches, I need an exterminator, not a how-to guide. I can look into correcting the conditions that originally attracted them after they’re dead.
When you have a roach infestation, do you post on the internet wishing for an exterminator to magically come to your fucking house? No, you go and do the work to find one and hire them, or you purchase poison, bait, or fumigation cans to kill them yourself. . This is what I’m complaining about, not what you are talking about, which is nothing close to what’s happening here.
No, actually broadcasting our problems into the internet is a pretty good early step. When I run into some issue that I don’t know how to resolve or recognize the my own expertise isn’t sufficient to get the job done, there’s a pretty good chance I’ll be starting a thread in AskLemmy to see if anyone here has some insight and can point me in the right direction.
Understand that when we’re talking about broader social issues, the execution is broadened as well. For my own living room, yeah it’s on me to either track someone down who can do it for me, or try it myself and hope I don’t poison my family. If the entire neighborhood is infested, instead of “I need to do something about this” it becomes “someone needs to do something”… but I’m just a Joe-dipshit who knows nothing about large scale roach infestations and doesn’t have access to the volume of poison needed to control it, or the investigative background to track down their source, or chemistry background to monitor the local water supply to make sure it isn’t being poisoned, or, or, or, or… but then if I complain about roaches on the internet, some snarky asshole inevitably shows up to ask why I don’t solve it myself.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with posting a call to action, regardless of whether you have the means to be a part of that action. Best case scenario, someone who actually does have the means sees it and takes it as the final bit of encouragement needed to spur them into action; worse case scenario… no one reads it? It’s harmless. And even though the best-case here has a super slim chance of actually becoming a reality, trying to silence those posters serves only to stifle that chance.
What’s stopping from you doing it yourself?
Recognizing the need for force, and having the skillset to actually carry it out are two very, very different animals.
Idk why people are always so quick to tell folks to DIY this shit when another poster acknowledges the necessity.
If I find my living space is suddenly infested with roaches, I need an exterminator, not a how-to guide. I can look into correcting the conditions that originally attracted them after they’re dead.
When you have a roach infestation, do you post on the internet wishing for an exterminator to magically come to your fucking house? No, you go and do the work to find one and hire them, or you purchase poison, bait, or fumigation cans to kill them yourself. . This is what I’m complaining about, not what you are talking about, which is nothing close to what’s happening here.
No, actually broadcasting our problems into the internet is a pretty good early step. When I run into some issue that I don’t know how to resolve or recognize the my own expertise isn’t sufficient to get the job done, there’s a pretty good chance I’ll be starting a thread in AskLemmy to see if anyone here has some insight and can point me in the right direction.
Understand that when we’re talking about broader social issues, the execution is broadened as well. For my own living room, yeah it’s on me to either track someone down who can do it for me, or try it myself and hope I don’t poison my family. If the entire neighborhood is infested, instead of “I need to do something about this” it becomes “someone needs to do something”… but I’m just a Joe-dipshit who knows nothing about large scale roach infestations and doesn’t have access to the volume of poison needed to control it, or the investigative background to track down their source, or chemistry background to monitor the local water supply to make sure it isn’t being poisoned, or, or, or, or… but then if I complain about roaches on the internet, some snarky asshole inevitably shows up to ask why I don’t solve it myself.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with posting a call to action, regardless of whether you have the means to be a part of that action. Best case scenario, someone who actually does have the means sees it and takes it as the final bit of encouragement needed to spur them into action; worse case scenario… no one reads it? It’s harmless. And even though the best-case here has a super slim chance of actually becoming a reality, trying to silence those posters serves only to stifle that chance.
Pet peeve of mine, I guess.