Speaking of holding signs, the big thing my newsfeed seems to want to cover is all of the Pro-Israel/Pro-Palestine protests. I suppose there was one Pro-Palestine protest in Pittsburgh, so I could theoretically find that relevant, but the others have less than nothing to do with me.
Only in the U.S.A. would these folks be both arrogant and stupid enough to think holding a sign in a U.S. city bitching (for one side or the other) about affairs taking place 6,000 miles away from us in a war that should have absolutely nothing the fuck to do with us is going to accomplish anything.
What we should be doing is saying, "This conflict is fundamentally about religion, so both sides can fuck right off." Human rights abuses. It seems like one side committed them, then the other committed them right back. Bunch of supposedly religious people arguing who it is enacting vengeance upon whom? What a fucking joke!
Except, it's not our fucking joke and it's not happening here.
If these fucking noisemakers want to effectuate change in the Middle East, then they should go to the Middle East and attempt to do that. At least these protests seem not to have led to too much violence in our own country.