• @Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    It’s a paltry effort in face of the mammoth need, but I’d rather see this, than the world walking away. Because enforcing the ICJ judgement or stopping a preventable famine apparently isn’t allowed, but “we tried” I guess?

    We’ve already seen deaths from starvation and Palestinians who look like the “living skeletons” we liberated from Auschwitz or Buchenwald. I’m behind any effort to try and stop that, however ineffective it is, as long as the efforts continue to stop the death

    • @girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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      -69 months ago

      Help is a relative word.

      If I ask for your help in fixing my computer and you show with slegehammer, you’re not really helping then, are you?

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        9 months ago

        Its more like someone showing up with a screwdriver, which is generally the correct tool to help fix a computer, but it’s too small and sometimes they slip while using it and damage the motherboard in the process.

        Not great, but if you literally had no other option for computer help, it’s still something.

        • @girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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          -39 months ago

          Its more like someone showing up with a screwdriver

          Not really tho because most computer issues are software-based … so a screwdriver is just as useless as a sledgehammer.

          The best thing to do is ask what help is needed vs assuming you know what to do and only providing the aid you want to give.

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            Well now we are just splitting hairs into worse and worse hairs.

            Turns out computer repair, much like the humanitarian aid we are actually talking about, is indeed a complex and difficult thing to get right.

            It’s almost like the attempt to help should get some credit, especially as the person who brought a sledgehammer or a screwdriver learns that you need software support and adjusts that help accordingly.

            • @girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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              -49 months ago

              When someone needs help the onus is on the one who offers help to understand what help is needed.

              If you don’t want to give specific help, don’t offer.

              And no, just because the helper provided incorrect or useless aid doesn’t mean it should be appreciated.