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What is your point? That the cars themselves sometimes block traffic, therefore it's okay for protestors to stop them and block traffic?
by ZoomerCretin 3y ago
What is your point? That the cars themselves sometimes block traffic, therefore it's okay for protestors to stop them and block traffic?
- deprecative 3y agoThat's literally the point of a protest.
- ok_dad 3y agoThe point of the protests is to bring attention to the fact corps are running dangerous automated vehicles into the middle of active fire scenes and stuff. Were you aware of that without the protests? Maybe they work.
- labster 3y agoBeing inconvenienced by a protest is your responsibility as a citizen of a democratic republic. If you don’t engage with democracy, democracy engages with you.
- latency-guy2 3y agoI won't be held hostage by asocial freaks who piss and moan when they don't get their way. Let's democratic republic these people into the prison they so yearn for, you may join them if you want.
- labster 3y agoI think you’re thinking of a people’s democratic republic.
- gedy 3y agoProtests are not democracy. Voting, freedom of speech, and peaceful assembly, sure, in the US at least. But that's not really the situation here either.
- ddoolin 3y agoWhat is the point of peaceful assembly if not to protest something? If you're counting peaceful assembly as a tool of democracy, you might as well be saying peaceful protest, of which merely blocking traffic is included, since inconveniencing people is not violent.
- nomel 3y agoThere are many cases of people dying from blocked emergency vehicles, with these sort of obstructions. I’m certain if you were in an ambulance, dying if a heart attack, you would look out your window to see the non violent protest, give a thumbs up, easily make peace with leaving you family behind, and breathe your last breath with a smile, knowing you were part of “democracy”.
- labster 3y agoCool scenario, they have trolleys and switches in SF too. Do you feel the same about people driving to work who cause ordinary traffic that happens to cause an ambulance to arrive too late? Breathe your last breath with a smile, knowing you were part of “capitalism.”
- nomel 3y ago> Do you feel the same I do, for those that caused any sort of gridlock that prevented them from being able to follow the law of moving out of the way of emergency vehicles. Personally, I hope democracy spreads: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/05/texas-protesters-highways-ambulances-legislature/ https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/05/texas-protesters-hig...
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- ddoolin 3y agoMy point was that it was peaceful/non-violent. Again, obstructing traffic is not violent. If people die because emergency vehicles couldn't pass, that still isn't violent.