• EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Maybe gen a will be the ones with the balls to actually rise up, set everything on fire, and kill the people responsible for destroying everything. Because of the rest of us are just sitting around complaining.

    And yes, I admit, I’m in that category.

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      7 months ago

      It looks like if gen Z’s massive wave of unionization doesn’t work that’ll be the case. Gen A is likely the water war generation unless we clean up our act enough for it to be gen ß

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      7 months ago

      I have been educating my child on unions and workers’ rights. When he’s old enough, we move on to the proper engineering and maintenance of guillotines.

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      7 months ago

      The funny thing is that we have politicians here in Australia that complain about “woke” environmentalists standing up for the environment by sitting down on the road. They’re trying to have them labelled as terrorists for simply sitting down in the street.

      Meanwhile in France, Farmers who are angry about stopping of diesel concessions are setting things on fire, blocking streets with tractors and dumping manure and dirt into the street to block public servants responsible into buildings.

      The point is two fold, French have always done protests better. And the west conservatives have a massive raging boner for eroding ones rights to protest.

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        7 months ago

        I support protesting wholeheartedly, but blocking a road is among the most moronic ways to protest I can think of.
        They are blocking emergency vehicles, people going to work, people doing errands, visiting family, goods being transported etc.
        There is a reason people get pissed off and pull them off of the road themselves. It does absolutely nothing to further their cause.
        It doesn’t even effect the people they protest against.

        Imagine missing your kids show, mothers dying breath or the flight to your long awaited vacation and family visit because someone couldn’t think of a more appropriate way to protest than sitting down and being an absolute butthole.

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            7 months ago

            I don’t call people potentially dying an inconvenience.
            They have no moral right to decide wether or not people make it to where they are going.

            So what do they hope to achieve?
            If it is awarenes, then there are much better ways of doing it

            • Ian@Cambio@lemm.ee
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              7 months ago

              Just wondering if you’ve ever participated in a protest or this is just an academic exercise. In my experience well behaved protests are basically ineffective. It’s true that you can actually end up vilifying the cause in the eyes of people that you’ve inconvenienced.

              But that creates social pressure on our leaders to address the problem. Either by compromise with the protests demands or clearing them out by force.

              I get that it may block the direct path of an ambulance potentially. But most gps algorithms when they see a ton of stationary phones in the street interpret that as traffic and try to route around it.

              At the end of the day, yes there is the small potential for harm to a few individuals, but (hopefully) the benefits to a larger group offset that.

              I went to UT and there were protests in the street all the time. It always inconvenienced me and I actually came to blows with a few of the protesters, but they should know that’s a possibility going into it. There’s really no right or wrong here. There’s only large organized group against a few impacted drivers.

    • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world
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      It is getting to the point that is the only option. Voting doesn’t matter, protesting doesn’t matter, complaining doesn’t matter. Millennials were raised that those are the processes, we have come to realize they don’t work and our kids are being raised with the understanding that that doesn’t work. If they want things to change, and it literally HAS to, that is what needs to happen. Either accept the status quo or forcefully change it. If I understand history, that is the most American thing you can do.