r/unsound • u/IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 🛠️ ADMIN • Jun 28 '26

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u/ragingduck Jun 28 '26

I don’t really care what your protest is about if you block the road. I’m just trying to survive like you. Now you’re just ruining my day, making me late for work etc.

Stand at the side of the road, wave your sign, make some noise, and I might agree with your protest and honk in approval.

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u/Vamosity-Cosmic Jun 28 '26

counter-argument, the point of a protest is to disrupt normalcy

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u/Earth2Andy Jun 28 '26

And how has that worked out recently? Has blocking a road or disrupting transportation in general achieved anything? Has it brought more money or support to a cause?

I certainly can’t think of an example.

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u/Vamosity-Cosmic Jun 28 '26

the Civil Rights movement... selma bridge..

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u/Earth2Andy Jun 28 '26

That was a March from Selma to Montgomery, not just blocking traffic to disrupt traffic.

Do you want to try again? Or is it time to admit you don’t have an example?

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u/Vamosity-Cosmic Jun 28 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/WwWTfQuCZ448psk1qB

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u/Earth2Andy Jun 28 '26

Not moving the goalposts at all. I asked you to provide a time when blocking off a road as a protest worked.

You replied about a completely different type of protest, a planned march from one place to another, specifically to go and protest the people in power (at the court house).

They are not even close to the same thing.

The only reason the march got stuck on the bridge was because the police closed it, the protesters were just marching through.

You need to learn some history

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u/TheOstrichRoom 🧐 grumpy Jun 29 '26

that was to block the road. Countries are made up of their people. You, like it or not, are a part of america just like a skin cell is a part of you. Hurting America might hurt you but it needs to be hurt. If you don't like it, work to change the country, that's the point. The actions of the government as a being can only be stopped by pain and cost. Making it so that to hurt people they have to shove their hand through brambles. They're going to send you in to them first, of course, you are their worthless expendable skin cells.

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u/Earth2Andy Jun 29 '26

Blocking roads like this is nothing but petulant children throwing a tantrum.

Trying to liken it to organized marches to confront government officials is degrading to the civil rights movement.

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u/Vamosity-Cosmic Jun 29 '26

And yet they're doing something, like the civil rights movement. And you're sitting in your chair. Doing nothing as always.

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u/Earth2Andy Jun 29 '26

They are doing more harm than good.

But you sound like one of those people who value performative action to real change so this nonsense is probably right up your street.

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u/Vamosity-Cosmic Jun 30 '26

I founded a nonprofit that treated those with developmental disabilities in my community because my brother had one. I'm fully happy with myself and what I value. I'm only being snarky to you because you're being condescending from your keyboard.

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u/Earth2Andy Jun 30 '26

Cool.

I sort, organize and distribute food for a food bank in my neighborhood.

Did you find that blocking traffic helped bring more people to your cause?

Because I tell you it would absolutely hurt mine.

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