There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
What better way to throw a wrench in the gears than to stop people from working? From stopping their labour being squeezed of value?
What method would you suggest that has more impact? Do you think asking nicely is effective? People have been directly blocking these companies for years, and nothing has changed. More drastic action is necessary. The only thing I can think of that’d possibly be more effective is essentially full on eco-terrorism, and I don’t think we’re there yet.
Maybe someone’s on their way to the hospital to see their dying mom and misses her final moments because of this shenanigan? What if someone is in an ambulance and needs to get to the hospital or on their way to pick up a sick kid?
What if I just really need to take a dump? What if I’m coming home from a long shift, am starving, and just want to go to bed? Running low on gas / battery charge, it’s hot AF out, and run out trying to not bake in the sun by running the A/C?
The people stuck in traffic driving EVs aren’t part of the problem, so why are they being punished?
I drive a hybrid myself (can’t afford an EV yet), try to minimize my driving overall, and when I’m out on the road, it’s for a purpose. I’m trying my goddamned best here, and these jackasses are indiscriminately holding everyone hostage in a traffic jam.
If my $400 worth of groceries melt / spoil because of shit like this, you can bet I’m going to be royally pissed. That shit’s expensive, and I can’t afford another trip for two weeks. Guess the kids are gonna go hungry. :shrug:
That’s a lot of “what if’s” but it’s also a lot of people they’re disrupting. These protesters don’t know these peoples’ lives, but they sure as hell are negatively impacting them.
If they want to protest, fine. But don’t take it out on people just trying to live their lives, who may or may not be part of the problem, and may have important places to be.
Ah cool, just complain and don’t offer any alternative suggestions. Glad you can come up with countless ways how you might personally be inconvenienced in the short term.
Unfortunately, if you think a brief traffic stoppage is bad, you might be unhappy to learn what happens if we don’t turn this around. Mass drought and famine, skyrocketing food prices, flooding, days you can’t even leave your house. Does that sound more or less inconvenient?
What better way to throw a wrench in the gears than to stop people from working? From stopping their labour being squeezed of value?
What method would you suggest that has more impact? Do you think asking nicely is effective? People have been directly blocking these companies for years, and nothing has changed. More drastic action is necessary. The only thing I can think of that’d possibly be more effective is essentially full on eco-terrorism, and I don’t think we’re there yet.
These climate protesters are heroes.
Who says everyone is going to work?
Maybe someone’s on their way to the hospital to see their dying mom and misses her final moments because of this shenanigan? What if someone is in an ambulance and needs to get to the hospital or on their way to pick up a sick kid?
What if I just really need to take a dump? What if I’m coming home from a long shift, am starving, and just want to go to bed? Running low on gas / battery charge, it’s hot AF out, and run out trying to not bake in the sun by running the A/C?
The people stuck in traffic driving EVs aren’t part of the problem, so why are they being punished?
I drive a hybrid myself (can’t afford an EV yet), try to minimize my driving overall, and when I’m out on the road, it’s for a purpose. I’m trying my goddamned best here, and these jackasses are indiscriminately holding everyone hostage in a traffic jam.
If my $400 worth of groceries melt / spoil because of shit like this, you can bet I’m going to be royally pissed. That shit’s expensive, and I can’t afford another trip for two weeks. Guess the kids are gonna go hungry. :shrug:
That’s a lot of “what if’s” but it’s also a lot of people they’re disrupting. These protesters don’t know these peoples’ lives, but they sure as hell are negatively impacting them.
If they want to protest, fine. But don’t take it out on people just trying to live their lives, who may or may not be part of the problem, and may have important places to be.
That’s not what heroes do.
Ah cool, just complain and don’t offer any alternative suggestions. Glad you can come up with countless ways how you might personally be inconvenienced in the short term.
Unfortunately, if you think a brief traffic stoppage is bad, you might be unhappy to learn what happens if we don’t turn this around. Mass drought and famine, skyrocketing food prices, flooding, days you can’t even leave your house. Does that sound more or less inconvenient?
What does this actually accomplish huh?
Not a goddamned thing.