• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    I’m all for protests, but please don’t block major roadways or interstates.

    emergency services use the same roads and your protest will kill someone. pile up on the sides of the road, throw paint balloons in the streets, throw your shit at cars passing by. I really don’t care.

    just keep the streets clear for emergency services.

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      Some asshole protesters were blocking the highway here in Seattle at one point and prevented me from getting to a vet appointment for my puppy with cancer.

      Fuck people who block highways.

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      3 days ago

      I’m all for protests but just don’t inconvenience anyone or apply any political pressure and obey the law and go back home and be good boys

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        now say that to the 8 year old that died on the way to the hospital because they were shot and waited for an ambulance for an hour.

        go on, I’ll wait for your entitlement to clear up.

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          Let me hop into your imagination and talk to him

          Then even so, racial injustice, climate change, genocide, and other such problems that are being protested about cause more harm than that all the time.

          Nobody said it’s pleasant, only that it’s necessary and the only way to affect change

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      3 days ago

      emergency services use the same roads and your protest will kill someone

      As soon as law enforcement stops killing us for funsies I’ll start caring about the vague hypothetical that a neoliberal gets hurt by accident.

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            first of all, I never said that. never even implied it.

            second of all, I don’t drive asshole. I work from home 100% of the time.

            I couldn’t care less if I have to sit in traffic.

            However I DO care when innocent people are forced to suffer because of your entitled sense of superiority. I DO care when your willful ignorance tears families apart because you are filled with so much vitriol and hate for other people you’re willing to allow any number of people suffer just to prove a point.

            get your shit together dude. don’t care how, don’t care where. just pack up all your fucking bullshit and fucking deal with it. deal with it before you need to go to a protest because anger had no place in a peaceful protest. anger and protests go together like police action and riots.

            if you believe that a protest has to become violent to force action you’re a part of the problem and need to(you guessed it) get your shit together.

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                  easier to dismiss me as a troll than to realize how hypocritical you’re being. people protesting real worldwide issues like genocide to stop their government from actively engaging in it are self centered and only care about themselves but Mr. Liberal is righteously mad about being inconvenienced

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            They didn’t say anything like that and you know it. At least don’t be disingenuous with your arguments.

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              ah yes I should make honest arguments like families of people burning to death and children getting killed from shootings because of protests.

              I’m sure you are equally critical of that guy’s hyperbole

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      3 days ago

      In Germany, if the protest was registered before, emergency services will avoid the roads and use alternative routes.

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      Every single protest I went to split to let emergency vehicles through.

      Protests are supposed to be disruptive.

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        every protest I’ve seen on highways or streets smashed ambulances and cop cars trying to get through.

        does that mean every protest is like that? no. does that mean we can’t all work together to ensure to protection of human life? no.

        protests are supposed to be disruptive but don’t damage your message out of spite for society. target buildings or locations that speak to the movement. have a problem with the cops? surround every police station. have a problem with the city? block access to cityhall.

        protests are meant to actually mean something, a defined message to the establishment that’s clear and easy for others to get behind.

        everything else is just a riot.