This is important because unthinking tribalism pushes anyone on the fence away from wanting to hear your position, and we don't need any more people pushed to the right.

Like when Trump torpedoed the Trans-Pacific Partnership - which would have meant all involved countries would have fallen under (globally draconian) US intellectual propery law and other controversial changes. In short, it was a huge win for corporations an a huge loss for consumer rights. Trump torpedoed it because it wasn't "putting America first" enough. So, although he stopped it for a stupid reason - it was great that he stopped it anyway.

It was of course renegotiated a few years later as the 'Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership', but notably with almost all of the intellectual property crap removed or vastly de-fanged, and various other controversial provisions removed - and that agreement passed. So it was a lasting win.

But if you ever say 'i hate Trump, but not everything Trump has done is bad because.. ', you are still likely to get a hundred Lemmy downvotes even if you explain why. Hopefully people can learn that you don't have to disagree and disavow someone/some entity all of the time just because you disagree with them in general. A win is a win and it's ok to say 'hey actually that's good', it doesn't mean you support or like them - it just means you think they made one good decision.

There is concept on the left called “critical support” it broadly means we agree with that one thing you are doing, but we also do not agree with other things.

also known as "the art of holding more than one thought/belief at once"

Iran's not shooting missiles in defense of Palestine, just in retaliation for Israel shooting at them.

But there's certainly a level of "oh, is blowing up an apartment building a bad thing? Then WTF have you doing???"

It's not why do people support Iran? It's why do people not support Israel?

It's not about critical support it's about critical thinking. It's about the big picture. Not about who to support and who to hate.

It's about control. It's always about control. 97% of politics is distraction and war means politicians have failed their number one reason to he in charge. To make the daily lives of people better.

Israel doesn't need offshore fossil fuel deposits. They just want control of those resources and money.

The most important thing going on right now is the transition to green energy. Not religious people killing each other. People don't like to hear that. Rather than think about that it makes them happy to insult people about it. Just like it makes people happy to have control.