My favourite one (it happens a lot in the UK and I assume in other places too) is when people say things like "I support the cause but the protest is really disruptive."

Like no shit, that's the entire point of a protest. They also sometimes complain about strikes being inconvenient for them. Oh, is this strike illustrating to you why this service is essential and it would be bad if it went away?

One time when I used to be on reddit I had an argument with someone who was against a climate protest because it could have blocked an ambulance and gotten someone killed. But this was after the protest had already happened and that had not occurred. So you don't support it because of a hypothetical disaster that you just made up, that already didn't happen? People, man

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

Got into an argument with a neo-liberal who was happy the rail strikes were over without much going to the workers. I asked them if they felt any worker solidarity and they said no outright. There's people who just don't care about you at all as long as they get theirs.

[–] 10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

I really do care about the children my country's bombing, I swear, but this morning I was 4 minutes late because protestors were blocking the road and I couldn't get my custard balls from tesco

[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

Very well put.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The classic British response to protests is "Blocking the roads hurts the economy. It's terrorism."

[–] 10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

*"I'm terrorized. Imagine if we have to suffer through protests everytime we do genocide? It's a sleepery slope" *

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago

This annoys me to no end…

Liberals pissing and moaning about being 2 minute late to brunch because some people with convictions are peacefully standing in the road.

Meanwhile they can’t even fathom the type of revolution that western society actually needs…

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And then they cheer at the truck protest, that blocks the roads and is being disruptive.

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[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's a bad argument anyway, since street-blocking protest crowds almost always part to allow an ambulance through. If an ambulance is stopped, it's usually the cops blocking it.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The only protest that intentionally blocked emergency services I can think of was the antivaxxer "freedom convoy" protests.

But when you ask a random lib to think of a protest blocking emergency services they'll blurt out something about climate/workers/BLM/Palestine/etc. Talk about the freedom convoy and they'll get holier than thou about how unfairly those widdle science denwying fwascists got treated by the police when any Leftist protest ever was treated 100x worse.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’ve never seen ambulances or fire trucks intentionally blocked, and I’ve often seen protest organizers plan ahead for ambulance & fire access.

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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Related, in Star Wars lore, Tarkin got promoted (in the late Republic) after landing a ship on top of a crowd of protesters where were blocking the spaceport on Ghorman.

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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 days ago

The thing is that the rebels were (mostly) white, and removing the racial lens allowed Americans to see that a struggle like that of colonized people against their oppressors was obviously correct. But it also means they can't connect the rebels to real world conflicts, because the oppressed people are generally not white, and so it's understood through a racial lens.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 74 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The worst is when they compare the DNC to the rebels, when Lucas himself said the rebels were basically the Viet Cong.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When progress and socialism is on the rise, libs will side with the fascists to stop its rise. Even so called moderates are to impede with progress.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Liberalism and fascism are rooted in the same base characteristics, after all.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

Indeed. The only real difference is the smile on the face of the liberal as they step on your head as you're drowning.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's like that old meme about how Luke is a desert farmer who is given weapons and radicalized by a bearded man in a cave, then goes off to a militia training camp and eventually blows up a government installation.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When Luke joins the rebels against the Empire because his people were murdered.

Liberals: 🥰

When a Palestinian kid joins Hamas against the Empire because his people were murdered.

Liberals: 🤬

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They never say: "If you don't like how the resistance operates, why don't you join it and try to change it from the inside?"

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

Noooo that only applies to electoral theater.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days ago

Yep, that's literally what it is.

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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Libs think Trump vs. Harris was like Leia vs Darth Vader when in reality it was more like Darth Vader vs Palpatine.

[–] 10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ugh I genuinely, humanely, passionately hate those people. My and my wife have been receiving calls from her friends to announce that one is now a widow, now got her parents bombed with white phosphorus, that friends were lost, and so on.

Meanwhile, these awful people were making their fictional reference like if it was a fucking videogame.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

So many of these people will play this little game where they pretend to be reluctant, like they care just as much as we do, but as much as it tears them up inside, they'll make the "rational" choice for the "lesser genocide."

Then, as soon as the leftists were out of the room, they dropped the facade and started talking about how great and wonderful Harris is and how they couldn't think of a single reason to dislike her. This wasn't the only post like that that got 1000+ upvotes, despite Lemmy being full of "reluctant" Harris voters.

A part of me wishes they'd just tell us straight up that they don't give a shit.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago

Bingo.

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago

Anything to cope, and bury rebellion assent

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

this seemed too fantastical so i had to look it up and even gemini says so. lol

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The interviewer was trying put words in his mouth but then George corrected him. Mujahideen and Al qaeda were both US funded terror groups. Then he tried to shift the blame of the crimes of the American empire solely on to the British Empire and Lucas again corrected him. 😂 Astroturfer ass interviewer!

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/HDJyAapsLJw

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

yet another example of truth in plain sight but most people just don't know...

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yep, he said it on camera. Even said he was jealous of the soviet filmmakers for not being beholden to the profit motive.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

George Lucas be like ussr-cry

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He def had more liberal tendencies, but at least could recognize material reality.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah for sure, I was just being silly.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i'd sooner believe a random commenter than ai hallucinations, why on earth would that crap increase your confidence?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

Especially when the English-language corpora used to train LLMs are virtually exclusively anti-communist.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago

Deeply unserious people.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Libs watch movies about oppressed or colonized minorities (like in Frozen 2 or total recall) and then side with the colonizers or oppressors in real life

[–] RindoGang@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 days ago

Self preservation I guess

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The only halfway-decent treatment I’ve seen in Western media to date was the Cylon occupation of New Caprica in the 2004 Battlerstar Galactica TV series. It was basically the US occupation of Iraq, except the “us” were the occupied insurgents and the “them” were the occupiers.

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