It seems pretty obvious at this point that Israel is doing a deliberate genocide on Gaza and Palestine. There are other very concerning actions the US is taking, but the US directly supporting Israel in this seems to be one of the most egregious. The fact that they are now actively fighting the International Criminal Court and routinely voting alongside Russia and North Korea against all other countries is among the biggest of red flags. However, even knowing this, the question of what to do about it remains unclear to me. I live in San Francisco. I think a protest on the 1st Street here is unlikely to have any impact whatsoever. Similarly, I can make small donations to some strategic places and, in fact, I have especially to medical organizations. But I don't think that's going to make that big of an impact, either. Further, my current role in my company is very public-facing, and using existing social channels to talk about it may cost me my job. I'm not in a good enough financial position for me to take that step lightly, and again I don't think me doing that would make a substantial difference. So I'm still strategizing. Right now, I think one of the most effective things I can do is substantial research into what can change someone's mind in this regard with some experiments and then creating some piece of media that can scale that. I don't know what, and I don't have much capacity for this, but it's my best idea so far. (Also, this post will be on my website but I'm not going to post it more widely. If you somehow found it, hello 🙂. Let me know if you have thoughts, I'm open to ideas)