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Protestors shut down a freeway in LA. (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by InevitableSwing@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Nitter

It's a tweet thread - the last tweet

Ca Highway Patrol press officer says:

75 protestors arrested

charged with Failure to disburse

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[-] ntzm@lemmy.ml 78 points 9 months ago

Shut down every freeway forever, that's my politics

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 59 points 9 months ago

Charged with protesting

[-] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 46 points 9 months ago

Don't they realize the LA county sheriffs department isn't Israel? smuglord

[-] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 42 points 9 months ago

I was ambivalent on the issue until this barbaric "protest" forced my hand. Now Gaza will never have my vote.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 43 points 9 months ago

80% of Americans are only 1 stolen parking space away from committing a mass shooting spree, so it’s not too far off

[-] sloth@hexbear.net 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

How much money were the cops asking for?

disburse

dis·burse /disˈbərs/ verb

verb: disburse; 3rd person present: disburses; past tense: disbursed; past participle: disbursed; gerund or present participle: disbursing

pay out (money from a fund).
"$67 million of the pledged aid had already been disbursed"

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 9 months ago

Well yeah, the protestors aren't the ones paying the cops, that's for damn sure.

[-] sloth@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

That's why they were arrested, 'failure to disburse'.

[-] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago

Have they thought about the inconvenience this will cause? What if there's an Ambulance? etc. etc. etc...

[-] professionalduster@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago

more of this please

[-] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

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[-] CaliforniaSpectre@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

why

[-] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[-] jack@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

ok it's bad because you'll get in trouble, so instead you should destroy infrastructure (you literally are doing respectability politics and tone policing btw)

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

Discussing the effectiveness and costs of different actions is not tone policing or respectability politics. It's an inescapable part of organizing; you have to think about what you're going to do and what result you're hoping to achieve.

Getting in trouble isn't a hard barrier to action, but if you're going to get into trouble (and ask those around you to get into trouble) you should have something to show for it. If someone is trying to talk you into getting arrested in a way that will not achieve anything significant, yeah, they're either a cop or doing a cop's job.

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah that's my main problem with Extinction Rebellion, they just seem to want to be ineffectual and annoying then get arrested without accomplishing a damn thing

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

If you're going to get arrested, you might as well break something and cause some serious disruption. It's easy for cops to pull you off the road if you're just standing there.

[-] jack@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

Sure, may as well assassinate the president while you're at it, if you're gonna get arrested

[-] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

How about destroying the roads at a time when those roads have the least amount of traffic. Also posing as highway road workers, with detour signs while destroying the route

Lastly, i feel like the best way to block a road is literally to just form a concrete barrier around 1 feet high. That would be costly to dismantle, and would probably effectively block traffic for a day.

Hypothetically speaking