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Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march [UK]
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Or you could say these protestors are regularly getting in headlines, showing that there's an escalating culture of absolute rejection of social mores so long as major, vital changes don't happen. Creating serious problems for bureaucrats and elected officials that forces a response that often makes those officials and bureaucrats look like assholes.
The protests are factually inconveniencing and causing problems for people that have the influence to get policy changed, at least so long as democracy is functional. You aren't going to be able to protest an oil magnate. They are not accessible for protest.
Your thesis is that people will vote against climate protestors just because they were late getting to work one day. If that's correct, we may as well get out the Flavor-Aid because this world's beyond saving. Everyone needs to be reminded and thinking about this crisis. Every day. It needs to be front and center. Time is running out. We have the solutions needed to avoid catastrophe, but too many are simply not aware and thinking about how terrible the danger is and need daily reminding.
We seem to be forgetting that protests once involved burning down neighborhoods and executing rulers. Which really is what we should be doing, given the enormity of the problem. This is a more civil compromise. Don't buy into the media powers that want to turn you against anyone expressing discontent.
If the Earth Day protests happened today, the media narrative around them would be "Look at all these fuckers, on the streets, stopping me from getting to the gas station to buy a Slim Jim!" It's fucked. The attitude is fucked.
The only policy they are affecting is the policy on jaywalking.
Yes, that is the effect that JSO is achieving with their idiocy. They are fucking that attitude right into the general public.
They're not specifically targeting their protests to inconvenience the influencers, politicians or industries supporting the licensing of Big Oil. The majority targets making a large spectacle, with a significant amounts of criminal damage - something to become news-worthy.
Not once have I seen them promote alternative policy changes for oil & gas use. They're also not promoting projects dealing with climate change.
They're certainly getting exposure, but they're not winning the public vote. I agree with their cause, but I despise their methods.
Ah, more ways you aren't allowed to protest to add to the list.
Let me know if you've got more Unacceptable Protest Options (UPOs). I'll maintain the list for you.
Here's your litmus test: when the public's general response to your actions are to call for American-style policing, you've fucked up, big time.
You can't make a fascist individual stop being a fascist individual with words. Only violence works.
Even worse, the public general response is to roll their eyes and laugh at the short sighted, uninformed, naive idiots.
Same as the suffragettes. Abolish women's suffrage!