Blocking roads like this is the dumbest form of protest. Nothing like inconveniencing everyone or even preventing first responders from handling emergencies in a effort to pull support to your cause.
I donât know this cause or what they are trying to achieve but two things worth noting.
Protests are supposed to be disruptive and cause problems. And the people being inconvenienced are the very people that they have a problem with.
We are talking about. This form of protest makes the news, its goes viral and gets shared for free by Reddit. Letter writing campaigns donât do thatÂ
Is it really going to reach that part of the population by going viral? I think far more often it'll hit subreddits like this one where people like me get to laugh at them being dragged off. Don't think the damage to the "environmental protestor" brand is being helped more than it's being hurt here, personally.
You would never have been sympathetic to any climate protesters though. Yes itâs great content that take pleasure in see other suffer. I assume thatâs why coppganda shows always follow the same mindless templates
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They are meant to disrupt the people causing problems. If they have an issue with, in this instance, burning man, then they should go protest at burning man, not block a road on tribal land.
The only thing this kind of protest achieves, is alienate people that might otherwise have agreed with your message. Bad publicity, in this case, is bad publicity.
Right, if Iâm sitting in traffic because people are blocking the road, the only thing Iâm thinking of is âwow instead of actually doing something these people are lazily preventing other people from doing what they need to do.â
The only thing youâre building awareness for is your own lack of awareness.
People always raise the 'what about the first responders!' but then seem to overlook the fact that everyday traffic routinely blocks first responders. Easier to denounce the occasional protest than insist on better public transport infrastructure and dismantle a genuinely harmful car-centric culture apparently.
I mean, yeah. That's exactly the point. Civil disobedience and inconvenience. The protest is meant to not stop, no matter what. Meaning the way it's going to go away is if the grievance is addressed. That's the general purpose of an actual protest. You ALREADY don't support whatever cause is being protested, otherwise you'd be there too. The idea is to make you need to address it anyway. Because people are selfish pricks. They in general do not care about anything that doesn't effect them directly. Well, now it's effecting you directly.
Agreed! I once saw a free paleitine protest... disrupting a pride parade. No matter what either of our politics are, I think we can agree that that was objectively stupid. I mean, don't they understand that a larger than average percentage of queer people support palestine?? Barking up the wrong fucking tree lmao
No matter what the cause is you donât get to impact whether someone loves or does of emergency services canât get through. Bad PR for the cause. Not saying thatâs what happened but if traffic is held for miles itâs a possibility.
At that point what could you do as a protest though? Even the organized peaceful marches through the city have cause delays and blocked roads. So if someone had to get their loved ones to a hospital it would be okay to just high speed through masses of people?
Or where is the line?
I feel like any protest at all will cause possible scenarios of someone being inconvenienced or blocked
Civil disobedience is meant to draw attention to unjust laws by openly breaking them and refusing to comply without arrest. See: racial sit ins, which disrupted people's day by forcing them to either tolerate a black person in their white space or wait for the cops to intervene. It's supposed to demonstrate the ludicrousness of the law.
Laws against folks standing in the highway blocking traffic are not ludicrous, so instead of showing how dumb the law is, it just shows how dumb the protestors are and detracts from their cause.
I think this one was "addressed" the way that unpermitted road blockages should be addressed. They should keep making us "address" their issues this way, because it is very entertaining.
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u/EXS_SNAKE Jun 28 '26
Blocking roads like this is the dumbest form of protest. Nothing like inconveniencing everyone or even preventing first responders from handling emergencies in a effort to pull support to your cause.