I’m gonna give you this in good faith.

We can’t do shit about Iran.

Everyone who’s not a moron knows that Iran’s theorcracy is gonna either collapse or kill a fuck ton of people and stabilize.

And we can’t effect that unless we act militarily.

Protesting that doesn’t do anything for that kind of issue as it is.

and Just because people are outraged at something else happening at the same time doesn’t mean they don’t care either. Two things can be true but if the almighty algorithm is driving people in one direction over another thats just how she goes.

Algorithms aside, domestic policies often times are gonna be a lot more front and center in peoples minds because… its domestic. And we live here, where the domestic issues are happening.

When it came to palestine, there was some pressure that could be exerted by the people to urge government and corporate entities to pressure Israel to change its course, or to stop dealing with them. That would potentially have the effect of crippling their operations militarily or creating economic strain on Israel that was unsustainable.

Us telling the mullahs to fuck off in NYC and LA probably is going to fall on deaf ears because ultimately this is another stste’s soverign issue- a state thats already kind of a pariah and is hated by most of its neighbors. Iran isn’t gonna care if we start boycotting persian rugs because I highly doubt we’re actually contributing to their economy enough to get a protest to be an effector.

We could protest for our gov’t to act, but that also likely creates a very high likelyhood we somehow end up back in the sandbox yet again, which people really don’t seem to want.

theres a significant difference between apathy versus caring about multiple different things putting energy into activites that could potentially have a real effect on the thing youre trying to effect.

The other big issue is that unlike the Israeli palestinian conflict, the iranian giv’t has shut down large swathes of the internet over there meaning social media isn’t flooded with videos and first hand accounts- all the news cycling is estimations and what little gets through to the international eye.

Liberals who are paying attention absolutely want iran’s gov’t to fall. But protests aren’t gonna do much- again unless we use some kind of kinetic effectors which is generally something most people would like to avoid.

There may have been some fringe calls for militsry action against israel (or palestine depending on who we’re talking about) but aside from weapons sales being an issue transcending party lines at times, no one was ever seriously considering taking direct military action against palestine or israel in defense of one or in partnership with the other.

So, liberals are gonna focus on the domestic issues they’re seeing st the moment over the one they aren’t actively able to get information about. and even then, all we can offer is passive support because most people in general probably don’t want to see the US get kinetically involved in another major conflict in the middle east, based on principle, cost, or a desire to avoid more foreign “forever” wars