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• cheers_queers@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  that’s literally why blocking roads in protest is so effective. enough angry calls to the mayor office due to people being late for work etc, is how protesting puts pressure on representatives to actually represent the people.

  or did you think that huddling on sidewalks holding signs was supposed to do something?

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Blocking roads in protest has proven effective at exactly one thing: Increasing the enforcement and penalties for jaywalking.

    It is counterproductive at everything else.

    did you think that huddling on sidewalks holding signs was supposed to do something?

    Where did I say huddle on sidewalks?

    I think JSO should be firebombing ICE car dealerships, gas stations, muffler shops, and other entities and agents of the oil industry. Not harassing victims of that industry.

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    • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Blocking roads in protest has proven effective at exactly one thing: Increasing the enforcement and penalties for jaywalking.

      Well… no.

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      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Excellent retort, but I can cite the legislative record supporting my point.

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    • 257m@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Jaywalking isn’t even illegal where I live.

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      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Give JSO time to lobby your legislators. They’ll get around to it.

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• 257m@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No shit sherlock.

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You say that. And yet, certain people need to be reminded of this simple fact.

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    • CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your public travel is less important than peoples lives.

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      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You would have a point if “protesting” was “life”. But it’s not.

        When demonstrators were pissed off at Elon Musk, they didn’t picket grocery stores and kindergartens. they didnt blockade old folks homes, delay fitrfighters.

        **They burned Tesla dealerships. **

        JSO could learn a thing or two from these anti-Musk demonstrators.

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Me and my band of merry travelling protesters will just be on our way then.

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Excellent.

    Might I suggest that instead of targeting fellow victims for undue harassment, you direct your attention toward the actual perpetrators and their supporters? For environmental causes, might I suggest some sort of shop where an oil-based product like gasoline or diesel fuel is sold? Perhaps an entity that sells or services the vehicles that consume those fuels.

    Perhaps you could publish a manifesto telling the public and these businesses alike what businesses need to do in order to avoid Molotov-flavored “civil disobedience”. Things like “a majority of the cars on a dealer’s lot must be EVs” and “EVs should be priced lower than comparable ICE vehicles”. Or “fuel stations should have at least as many charging stations as fuel pumps”.

    When you publish your manifesto, make sure it gets sent to insurance companies, preferably the companies insuring the businesses responsible for the environmental catastrophe we are facing.

    We have enough laws against public use of the street. There is no need to demonstrate for more.

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No I don’t think I will.

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      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fair enough. I leave you and your merry band to continue on your way.

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