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[–] 55 points 11 months ago (10 children)

My favourite one (it happens a lot in the UK and I assume in other places too) is when people say things like "I support the cause but the protest is really disruptive."

Like no shit, that's the entire point of a protest. They also sometimes complain about strikes being inconvenient for them. Oh, is this strike illustrating to you why this service is essential and it would be bad if it went away?

One time when I used to be on reddit I had an argument with someone who was against a climate protest because it could have blocked an ambulance and gotten someone killed. But this was after the protest had already happened and that had not occurred. So you don't support it because of a hypothetical disaster that you just made up, that already didn't happen? People, man

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    It's a bad argument anyway, since street-blocking protest crowds almost always part to allow an ambulance through. If an ambulance is stopped, it's usually the cops blocking it.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago*

    The only protest that intentionally blocked emergency services I can think of was the antivaxxer "freedom convoy" protests.

    But when you ask a random lib to think of a protest blocking emergency services they'll blurt out something about climate/workers/BLM/Palestine/etc. Talk about the freedom convoy and they'll get holier than thou about how unfairly those widdle science denwying fwascists got treated by the police when any Leftist protest ever was treated 100x worse.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Related, in Star Wars lore, Tarkin got promoted (in the late Republic) after landing a ship on top of a crowd of protesters where were blocking the spaceport on Ghorman.

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  • Got into an argument with a neo-liberal who was happy the rail strikes were over without much going to the workers. I asked them if they felt any worker solidarity and they said no outright. There's people who just don't care about you at all as long as they get theirs.

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