In the grander scheme of things, is there a reason to care about this? I mean there’s a lot of shit going on in this country, a whole lot of crimes being committed by the authorities in charge. I’m not going to list it all right here, cause that seems like a truly monumental and depressing task. But let’s pretend that I did just list some of the truly heinous things that representatives of the US government are doing right now… in light of that, in comparison to all that, why does this matter to anyone?

I mean, I guess it matters to the person the land belongs to. they said in the article that they left tire marks and the exhaust also damaged the site. so there’s the environmental concern.

but more importantly, just because there are more important things to worry about, doesn’t mean you can’t also worry about this. it’s not a mutually exclusive sort of thing, you can care about more than one problem at a time if you want to.

Ok, I did say “why does this matter to anyone?”, and you’re right about the land owner, clearly it matters to them.

But you also said that we can care about more than one thing at a time. And while I agree with that up to a point, I think you can’t use that mindset all the time.

I made a reply to a very similar response below, (I don’t want to spam the thread with repeat comments, so I’ll just link to it) lemmy.world/comment/21477093