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[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 256 points 1 week ago (97 children)

The “disruptive protests are bad” people are straight garbage pieces of shit. You know what is disruptive? Blizzards in Florida, wildfires in California and Canada, and mass migrations of island people due to oceans rising. So go fuck yourselves with this “boo hoo traffic got held up a couple minutes “ bullshit you fucking pussies.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social -1 points 6 days ago

They kind of have a point about blocking roads being ineffective, but for entirely the wrong reason. Having been stuck in traffic caused by protests blocking streets several times myself, I know that for most of the drivers, it's utterly indistinguishable from all the other traffic jams. Unless you're right up front to see what's causing it, it could very well just be another event at the fairgrounds, or one of the regularly-scheduled crashes.

Put another way, maybe driving is actually a protest against cars? It is pretty damn effective at blocking streets.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A non-disruptive protest is masturbation.

A protest is disruption.

That's why protests in designated protest zones out of the eyelines and more importantly away from the profit operations of those being protested are an intentional and effective method of completely neutering protest.

We have protest in the US. It just doesn't mean anything anymore.

[–] whynot_1@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

You are not masturbating correctly.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

People hate protests even though they absolutely work because those people are for the status quo. I truly believe centrists are not actually on a line in between "right" and "left," but rather their own node so we all make a triangle. Much of what centrists believe are not anything like what the rest of us believe, but they are cowards who DESPERATELY want to be seen as the norm, as one of us by everyone (which is why they try to claim a "center" position, while the fascists and anti-fascists both recognize there is no middle ground between the two).

Centrism therefore should not be looked at as a mix of right and left, but as a mix of mainly centrist goals and thoughts. Teasing out centrism from the left will help us progress.

https://news.gallup.com/vault/246167/protests-seen-harming-civil-rights-movement-60s.aspx

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[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 191 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This Kafka-esque bullshit is all intentional to scare other protesters.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 104 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Exactly.

These protests are often enough extremely mild but get prosecuted like terrorist, while much more violent protests get a slap on the wrist at max.

Here in Germany, right wing farmers protested by illegally blocking entire cities with their tractors, much worse interruptions than the glued-to-the-street teenager, and they actually threatened violence. Yet, only a handful of them got any form of legal trouble, and that only for petty stuff.

Guess, which protesters threatened the status quo and which just wanted more money out of the system?

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Oh we had the farmers block a city here in the UK too.

Some washed up, abusive, TV presenter worked them up when the government changed the laws to inheritance tax that he had avoided by buying a farm.

Yeah, no one was arrested there either.

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[–] Lennnny@lemmy.world 119 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Little old lady spends 20 months in prison for blocking a main road and being mad at rich people.

President of the United States, insurrectionist, creep, man who suggested he'd got a Nazi to hack the elections, certified felon, spends ZERO months in prison and gets to have a party.

This is why I smoke weed.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Yeah. Don't give the fascists an excuse to send you to prison for a victimless crime.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

I just don't want to be locked into a thought-spiral about how awful the world is, which is how I tend to react to weed nowadays.

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[–] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If she had just attacked some police officer during Jan 6. she would have been free.

Instead she disrespects Big Oil that's upholding the American core values.

/S

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 week ago

Guardian is british, so she should have dumped sewage or murdered a trans woman if she wanted to go free.

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She's British and this happened in GB

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[–] qaz@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Some time ago a politician in my country announced they would start treating the people who protested at highways harsher. She said "people think these people are just protestors, but they're criminals"* and that they were "damaging the rule of law"*.

* Translated

Earlier on Tuesday, the College for Human Rights ruled that the right to demonstrate is "under serious pressure" due to the arrests of activists. They had called for the blockade of the important thoroughfare.

Yesilgöz does not respond to this criticism. She says that the Ministry of Justice and Security will look into it together with the Ministry of the Interior. The ministry is already looking into the right to demonstrate, about which reports have been published *2.

/* 2 They're currently looking into methods to restrict the right to demonstrate.

It's honestly really worrying how people just accept and even approve of these actions. It's not just because people are being inconvenienced, almost everyone I spoke to never noticed it themselves and that's honestly the scary part.

[–] sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

It was surreal to read about talk of extremism, social disruption and the calls for corporal punishment (by police), long jail sentences and more, all for a 5-10 minute delay caused by the A12 blockade, when the day after I was helping out at the Egmond Half Marathon there was real disruption, where people really couldn't go places with their cars... not to mention events like the Dam tot Damloop or Amsterdam Marathon that effectively put parts of our capital city on lockdown. No calls for water cannons there.

People might say "Those are not the same!" and that's true - sport events are not a constitutional right.

[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

People might say "Those are not the same!" and that's true - sport events are not a constitutional right.

Hehe, I grinnikked

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[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 43 points 1 week ago

Everyone involved in her arrest and detainment is a criminal.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 27 points 1 week ago

Just more proof that in the fight of money vs. morality, money always wins.

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