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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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I can support picketing, and direct action against a specific target, but as soon as you blockade general traffic you're on the wrong side of whatever issue you're concerned about.
"I support picketing, so long as I can easily ignore it."
Yes, exactly, and unironically.
You're attacking a company you disagree with. Then you shift your hostile attention to me, my friends, my family, my neighbors.
Why the fuck do you think I would support you after you lump me in with your enemies?
You are much better off with me ignoring you than you are with the kind of attention you're going to get after you decide to target me.
How very... "first-world problem" of you. Do you read what you say before you post it? This is selfish and myopic as shit.
They are inconveniencing you. They are halting the manufacture of weapons being used to annihilate civilians. These two issues do not equate in the goddamn slightest.