Car runs through anti genocide protest in Rotterdam blocking traffic over a Maersk weapons shipment to Israel
Car runs through anti genocide protest in Rotterdam blocking traffic over a Maersk weapons shipment to Israel
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If you say peaceful protestors against genocide deserve to die for slightly incovenicing you.
I think you deserve to get your “ass ran over”.
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Everyone in the anti genocide movement is on their tippy toes to avoid saying anything which could be remotely interpreted as a call to violence. The other side is so used to calling for violence that they do it wherever they go.
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People say we are all on a list for using Lemmy, but this one in particular needs to be on more lists.
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I was permabanned from Reddit right after the Inauguration after 12 years, and almost a million Karma, of posting radical, activist, anti-conservative, anti-MAGA posts. I'm already on a list, probably have been for a long time.
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Police were already there to clear the street, but good to know we have you to handle it personally John Rambo.
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what is up with these protesters blocking traffic? how does that stop a ship?
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It's a sign of frustration that the government and the broader public largely choose to ignore these issues. I'm not saying it's smart or effective, but peaceful, calm protest hasn't done anything in the past decades.
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They are blocking traffic around the town hall to inconvenience and drain money from the municipality which allows the port to be used to transport weapons to Israel.
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You literally wrote the word "protesters" and appear to be confused as to what a protestor or a protest actually is?
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Don't you know? Ghandi, MLK, the Molly Meguires... They all won they're rights by inconveniencing regular people! They definitely never engaged with people that have the actual power to change things.
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All of those people did things that if you saw them today you would be saying the same things about them that you're saying about protestors now.
MLK in particular organized a lot of traffic-blocking protests.
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Well, let's see, for one you can engage with people in power through inconveniencing "regular people." For two, those three absolutely led movements that contained times of "inconveniencing regular people."
Acting like they didn't actively disrupt the status quo and lives of folks going about their regular business is very dismissive and honestly ignorant.
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Three figures which exist to whitewash oppressed people freeing themselves using violence.
After mass murdering and colonizing people, the Brits saw Ghandi. He was so brave and peaceful with his hunger strike that the Brits spontaneously found their humanity and stopped colonizing. The end.
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It doesn't. I think these people are well meaning, but I'm not sure they've given much thought to the effectiveness of these kinds of demonstrations, in regards to actually affecting policy. I'm not sure they even care. I think stuff like this might be more about expressing their outrage than actually making any meaningful changes.
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