Aesthesiaphilia comments on Should Climate Protesters Be Less Annoying?

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[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Can't incite a revolution (lol) by staying under the radar.

Like I said, it's not feasible. It's a pipe dream. Grow up and start doing the hard, boring, effective work.

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[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago

The hard, boring, effective work is thankfully already being done

...no, it's not. Not enough of it.

Stop being performative and go volunteer to coordinate a voter drive.

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[–] loom_in_essence@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago

make it more expensive for them to continue,

This requires choosing better targets for the protests.

People in this thread are arguing that any kind of violence or inconvenience automatically helps the cause. But no. We're just inconveniencing each other and distracting each other from... environmental issues.

The only reason to take part in protests that don't target polluters is to look cool for your friends.

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