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Should Climate Protesters Be Less Annoying?
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this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
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You won't get anyone not already convinced to listen to your message if the people are hung up on hating what you're doing and thinking you're a moron.
It just seems like a bad way to reach or convince anyone.
Not really true, the evidence shows the popularity of the group may go down but concern over the issue goes up.
Tell us a better way that hasn't already been tried, one that's proportional to the urgency. Genuinely open to ideas.
The suffragettes were more than annoying, they blew stuff up and burnt down buildings and they were effective.
I would be interested in this evidence. I don't think there's been a whole lot of time to study these more ideotic hand glue and ruining paintings stunts but at least short term effects should be something that can be studied.