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I'm highly skeptical of your story. I'm 99.9% even the most tone-deaf activist would not block an electric train, if the objective of their campaign is to repla

I'm highly skeptical of your story. I'm 99.9% even the most tone-deaf activist would not block an electric train, if the objective of their campaign is to replace cars with trains and bikes. I find this hard to believe. Plus, how do you even blockade a train?

blitzar 4y ago
You jump on the roof while your fellow activist glue their hand to the side. 14% of those activists polled were down with it, not 0.01%. "A poll on the Extinction Rebellion Telegram chat showed 86 per cent of members were against action targeting the London Underground. Just 4 per cent approved of the action, while 7 per cent approved if they could be sure trains wouldn't get blocked underground." https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-angry-commuters-drag-extinction-20638767 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-angry-commute... These ones actually managed to get the glue on... https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47946205 https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47946205
- andrepd 4y ago
  Well I stand corrected. How do people like this even exist. What's the deal here, false flag or useful idiots?
  - blitzar 4y ago
    I believe the idea was that the commuters were going to jobs that destroyed the planet. I can only assume that philosophically they were ok with people taking public transport to work, but they disapproved of the jobs they were going to.
    - Joeri 4y ago
      To add context, in greta’s climate book there’s a whole narrative on how the climate and sustainability crisis is a consequence of the current global economic model that incentivizes consumption and growth, so people that are on their way to the financial district and therefore probably work to support that model would be considered enemies of the planet by those activists. Their mode of transportation would be immaterial to that. They’re not in favor of communism either by the way, they want the global economic system reformed to become sustainable and they consider the job of doing that a responsibility of the powers that be.

blitzar 4y ago

You jump on the roof while your fellow activist glue their hand to the side. 14% of those activists polled were down with it, not 0.01%. "A poll on the Extinction Rebellion Telegram chat showed 86 per cent of members were against action targeting the London Underground. Just 4 per cent approved of the action, while 7 per cent approved if they could be sure trains wouldn't get blocked underground." https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-angry-commuters-drag-extinction-20638767 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-angry-commute... These ones actually managed to get the glue on... https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47946205 https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47946205

andrepd 4y ago
Well I stand corrected. How do people like this even exist. What's the deal here, false flag or useful idiots?
- blitzar 4y ago
  I believe the idea was that the commuters were going to jobs that destroyed the planet. I can only assume that philosophically they were ok with people taking public transport to work, but they disapproved of the jobs they were going to.
  - Joeri 4y ago
    To add context, in greta’s climate book there’s a whole narrative on how the climate and sustainability crisis is a consequence of the current global economic model that incentivizes consumption and growth, so people that are on their way to the financial district and therefore probably work to support that model would be considered enemies of the planet by those activists. Their mode of transportation would be immaterial to that. They’re not in favor of communism either by the way, they want the global economic system reformed to become sustainable and they consider the job of doing that a responsibility of the powers that be.