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From the article: *Large SUVs were particularly affected. According to the police, notes were attached to the cars indicating that they were harmful to the climate. The tyres were not punctured, but merely deflated. The cars were parked in the area between the S-Bahn line and Elbchaussee around Kanzleistraße. *

Personally, I like this protest way more than glueing themselves to the streets, causing traffic jams where cars burn gasoline for hours and ambulances / firefighters / police gets stuck, putting innocent life in danger.

The article is in German. Warning: this link leads to google translate.

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[-] sarsaparilyptus@discuss.online 23 points 1 year ago

I'm a liberal, I can field this one. The form of protest I find acceptable is destruction of government and corporate property, but not working-class peoples' houses and mom-and-pop businesses. Is it really so much to ask to have rioting confined to productive activities, such as trashing city hall, looting Amazon DCs, destroying private jets and yachts, assaulting corrupt politicians, tarring and feathering billionaires, and burning down police stations? The establishment has successfully recuperated progressive protest by tricking people into associating it with low-level domestic terrorism, "we get what we want or maybe your houses burn down"; what we should be doing is repeatedly yanking the choke chain on the state and the 1% so hard their eyes pop out.

[-] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Trashing "city hall" isn't productive.

[-] sarsaparilyptus@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago

Let me just skip the implications and address your real meta point: no I am not a January 6 apologist or sympathizer.

[-] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

That's not what I mean at all. My point is vaguely encouraging people to "trash city hall" is dumb.

[-] Rentlar@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

There are always going to be a "protest/activism is good but this is unacceptable" for any act of disobedience.

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