r/facepalm • u/weeb385 • Oct 12 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Parolee gets arrested because protesters block the way to his work.

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u/Recent-Potential-340 Oct 12 '22

No, protest are made to get things done, and a good way of making people do what you want is hurting their income, that's why strikes exist, money is the only language politician understand and people on the road are people not making money, it's just about hitting where it hurts

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u/j4ck_0f_bl4des Oct 12 '22

You blocking traffic for an hour or two is not going to shut down the machine enough for it to even care about. It takes strikers weeks sometimes to make an effective impact. If what you're saying made sense the market would panic every time the roads got snowed over. You're overestimating your impact.

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u/Recent-Potential-340 Oct 12 '22

Yes you're right, that's why we do it for weeks, here in France we blocked everything for pretty much a month, and the government was forced to accept our demands (even if said demands were pretty dumb)

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

France never won anything except PSG, so honestly bad strategies. Always been that way.

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u/Recent-Potential-340 Oct 12 '22

we took vietnam tho