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Protestors will almost always allow emergency vehicles through their roadblocks.
People always bring this up, but the reality is they just don't want protests to cause the most minor of inconveniences for them.
Even so, it's just an objective fact that blocking traffic hurts the working poor far more than it hurts the wealthy and powerful high-status people who wield real power in society. It also, at least in the US, just further alienates blue collar people from the Democratic party and the political left, a demographic that they should own, but are losing and continuing to lose precisely because they are so tone deaf. The right does not block traffic, at least not as a tactic in itself, because they are smart enough to know that it just pisses people off. This difference is diagnostic of why the Democrats are steadily losing support from non-college-educated working people of all races.
Dude, these types of people are not working for the democratic party. The democratic party doesn't want to change anything, which is the issue. That's why other methods have to be used. Asking nicely and voting doesn't cause the change that needs to happen. Sure, do it also, but don't stop where the ruling class tells you to stop.
My point is that you won't make the changes you want by alienating working people. What part about this do you not understand?
There's a reason why working people are flocking to the authoritarian right and it has everything to do with this dismissive attitude on the left that basically tells them that they are unimportant, their issues don't matter, everything about their culture is stupid and evil.
And then you expect them to take you seriously, as if you somehow have their best interests in mind?
I am actively involved in my Union's leadership and I can tell you for a fact that what the far left in the US is doing and preaching is hugely unpopular among our rank and file membership.
You people want us to use the term "Latinx," for example, and most of our Latino and Latina membership has no idea WTF that's even supposed to mean, let alone the fact that it's extremely condescending to tell people how they should use their own language.
So keep doing your precious bullshit, but don't be surprised when you alienate working people and Trump wins another term.
I am warning you now, though I know it won't do any good.
Load of crap. That group Just Stop Oil managed to delay a woman getting her kid to the hospital. And the peices of shit who run it refuse to apologize. It doesn't matter anyway because when the road is blocked up it still delays everything. Also who the fuck made them god? When did they get permission to just decide for the rest of us who gets to go and who doesn't? I didn't vote for them.
Yes people tend to mention when you do shit that hurts people. Maybe there is a fucking reason for it?
Oh look a bloody mind-reader here! Everyone stop we got a guy here who can read the minds of thousands of people across multiple continents across decades. Hey since you are a mind reader what do you think I am thinking about your cavalier attitude towards human life right now?
you’re the one claiming - in several comments, and without evidence - to know that:
and the most tone-deaf comment bordering on self-awareness: "Someone completely unable to grasp that there are others around them and they got their own needs and wants."
Two wrongs make a right? Kinda "logic" I should expect from someone who blocks ambulances.
You can read the comments for yourself. That is if you aren't too busy making sure ambulances are blocked. You don't need ESP to read.
Literally in the comments and in the article.
Tu quoque. Logical fallacy. Ding ding ding ding. The mind reader ambulance blocker committed a logical fallacy. Ding ding ding.
I never said this. you can’t even make your argument without inventing things I never said. or are you just lost because you keep making stuff up in so many different threads that you don’t even know who you’re talking to?
lmao, no. you made the claim. that means it’s your job to prove it. if you think I’m doing your work for you, you’ve go another thing coming.
again, either you read other comments and article than I did, or you’re full of crap. but go ahead and prove it. I await the evidence.
tu quoque is only fallacious if I use it to assert that you're wrong. I used your lack of evidence for that. the list of quotes is just calling you out as a hypocrite on top of everything else.
you could use a course in rhetoric and debate.
I ain't paying you to talk.
Now how did you determine that you knew the reason why people were upset about your BFFs blocking the roads?
lmao
In the comments I'm reading, a good half of them know what this protest is about. That's not no one.
So half of them don't.
Half is hardly "no one"
Fine. Ten people on the internet