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To which I will add- the costs of violence and destruction usually fall heaviest on the poor and marginalized, not the rich and powerful.

The rich can relocate when the bullets start flying. The rich can rebuild if their house gets bombed. The rich can get top-notch health care if they're injured in an attack. The rich can buy their way out of being conscripted to fight. The rich will be the first to get aid if food or power or water or medicine runs short.

The poor can't, and won't.

A revolution must eat a lot of poor people for every rich person it consumes.

This does not mean "just accept the status quo." But it does mean that you need to think real hard about whether the actions you support are actually helping to create a more equitable society, or are just about you venting your anger and frustration and feeling like you're Doing Something.

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"I'm really sorry that lockdown and the ongoing pandemic interrupted pivotal educational and social/emotional development moments for you. You have an uphill battle towards adjusting to a lot of community based efforts because you experienced a mass trauma during an incredibly important time in your life where you should have physically been around your peers learning to engage in shared community. There is no "but" here, I'm genuinely really sorry. Something many of us consider key points in our interpersonal growth as youths was taken from you, not without reason but without care for its impact on you. I hope you know we are eternally allies in our struggles and if that is something you struggle to know I hope you can learn it someday."

Because so many of the angriest, most disenfranchised people I see on this website are under 24 and I often try to put younger people's behavior in the context of where they might have been 2020. I've seen the impact on my siblings and their peers+friends first hand, all ages 18-24. We've talked about how its impacted them, the isolation, the attachment to the internet, the anxieties and phobias and fears it developed in them due to the pandemic, the political unrest, and the responses to both that we've seen since. I know they're not the only ones and I know how much being marginalized also influences that impact too.