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I’ve got a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty baby, and I’ll write your name: Just Stop Oil paint private jets hours after Taylor Swift’s lands (juststopoil.org)
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[+] -9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Maybe it will work. I guess we'll see if they can convince the people who control the governemnt, military, and police that a few people glued to the road should change their unchecked avarice.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Well it would help an awful lot for so called moderate allies to stop whinging over the methods and start focusing on the message. Everyone who pours into a comment section to opine over their "agreeing with the cause, but not the act of protest" is carrying water for the oil companies. It's these people who help establish and maintain the permission structure for the out of hand dismissal of climate protests.

    We should be uncomfortable with protests, people should be made to feel discomfort, tension, and cognitive dissonance. These things work to end injustice better than all the polite ignorable protests that have ever happened.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago

    Well it would help an awful lot for so called moderate allies to stop whinging over the methods and start focusing on the message. Everyone who pours into a comment section to opine over their “agreeing with the cause, but not the act of protest” is carrying water for the oil companies. It’s these people who help establish and maintain the permission structure for the out of hand dismissal of climate protests.

    Dude, calm down. I live in a straw bale house. I've been doing my part since before most of these people gluing themselves to roadways were born. I do something useful every election and vote for the parties that are for saving the environment.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This isn't "a few people glued to a road," this is a threat. "Fix society, or tensions will escalate."

    The way you keep minimizing these efforts tell me you either don't really understand protests or are actively trying to make them seem trivial.

    I saw you complaining earlier about them "shoving moral superiority down your throat," which is curious. It's like your biggest problem with them is just that you have to hear about it.

    I'm sure your shed is nice. We need other people to build nice sheds.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I'm not minimizing their efforts. I'm pointing out that they are being annoying at best with no hope of affecting real change. It's protesturbation. Tantrumism. They're not terrorizing anyone with their stunts, they just being annoying.

    I was protesting and active to save the St. Lawrence River when it was so polluted you couldn't eat the fish. We did outreach and educatiom without annoying and endangering people. That was almost 50 years ago. I was very active in the straw bale building community for years helping other people to build straw bale buildings of all types. I trained the building officials to inspect straw bale buildings and intervened in disputes between people wanting to build a straw bale building and building officials with a 100% success rate.

    Don't lecture me about protest or change.

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