Splattering lives is okay,but shattering such windows is the promotion of violence? Honestly? 🔨
In capitalist US, property is more valuable than human life.
Remember: You can take lives to protect property, you cannot damage property to protect lives.
Who told you that?
Rittenhouse
He was damaging property to protect lives?
His stated purpose of being there and taking his gun was to protect property (by taking lives if necessary) from people who were damaging property in order to protect lives (the BLM protests).
by taking lives if necessary
That’s an aside you’re imbuing, he never said the above.
Huh. I don’t really consider Kyle Rittenhouse a valid source of my moral philosophy, so I’ve never heard his manifesto before.
The mod might be referring to the sticker itself. “Don’t post bumper stickers that promote violence.”
My favorite retort to those advocating for running over protesters:
If it’s OK for you to run over protesters blocking your path on the highway, it’s also OK for me to set fire to your car if you park it in the bike lane.
I wouldn’t park in a bike lane because I’m not an idiot.
I also wouldn’t block a live roadway for a protest as it is just inconveniencing others and would only alienate them from the cause I’m trying to advocate for, also because I’m not an idiot.
No movement ever accomplished anything by being convenient and quiet
Oh lordy, preach it. The louder we can all get, the more annoying we get. Which is the goal.
Should we tell them their family joined the protest?
Another reason to stay out of the usa. Not just anecdotal, we’re talking about a country where walking on a public street can be illegal, and people who do are sometimes called a slur.
Because cities aren’t for people to live in, they’re for cars to drive trough
Walking on a street can be illegal? How? Can you expand a bit on that, please?
“Jay” is an old English slur. “Jaywalking” refers to walking on a public street illegally. For highways, it makes sense that you’re not supposed to walk there. But in America this “jaywalking” can even apply to city streets.
If you’re not in America, then it might just sound ridiculous. That’s because it is
In general, the US seems to be weirdly pro-violence.
Being beaten up is portrayed as perfectly normal in media and advocating for violence (like here) seems to be totally okay for many.
That’s fucked up.
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The Reddit kind
There should be a community of “just reddit things” like this
Hot take: DON’T FUCKING BLOCK ROADS WHILE PROTESTING!!
There’s a difference if you announce prior the specific highways or roads that’ll be blocked, but sitting in front of cars that are going about their business is shitty behaviour. Looking at you “Just Stop Oil”.
“Don’t disrupt anything with your protest. Be small, and unseen.”
“Also, don’t interfere with the operation of your boss’s business when striking. It’s really shitty when they lose revenue, and when I don’t get my doodads in a timely manner!”
Way to miss the point there buddy. Don’t interfere with regular civilians is the point. Absolutely, disrupt businesses if that’s the point of your protest. Look at the BLM protests as an example. They blocked out large swathes of roads so that no one would be able to enter. They didn’t disturb those who were already driving.
Also, no one says the protest has to be small. Press exists for a reason.
The entire point of a protest is to disrupt and inconvenience people, including civilians. Protests have no teeth otherwise.
No, but go off
You’re the one arguing that direct action should neither be direct or action.
Way to misrepresent my argument there buddy. I’m saying that it can still be direct without inconveniencing civilians going about their day, but most of you Lemmy liberals are too chaotic. Enjoy alienating potential supporters of your cause then.
I’m not a liberal. Liberal’s prime justification for sticking with the status quo certainly is that they’re “alienated”, though. That’s not the actual reason of course. The actual reason is they’re fat and happy on the current system and don’t want radical change. That’s the benefit of creating pain points, so it’s not so easy to ignore.
You’re gunna hate to learn about how we got the 5 day work week.
Bro really replying to a 1 week old comment 💀🙏
I don’t mean to be pessimistic, but “Nobody cares about your protest” seems true. Fuck cars BTW
Looks like a photoshop, not a real sticker. Not a lot of pixels, but it doesn’t curve right, reflect or warp with the window. Squared up with tbe image orientation, not the window or defroster lines like a human would apply a sticker.
Everyone grabbing pitchforks all the same.
That’s not the point. The OP straight up advocates maiming or killing people in a known Terrorist TTP. But the guy who talks about a window gets banned.
I’m all for protests, but please don’t block major roadways or interstates.
emergency services use the same roads and your protest will kill someone. pile up on the sides of the road, throw paint balloons in the streets, throw your shit at cars passing by. I really don’t care.
just keep the streets clear for emergency services.
Every single protest I went to split to let emergency vehicles through.
Protests are supposed to be disruptive.
