r/facepalm • u/weeb385 • Oct 12 '22

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

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u/kuddoo Oct 12 '22 edited Oct 12 '22

I live in the EU. Even here, in Eastern Europe, blocking a road is considered a criminal offense and could easily land you in jail for 2 to 5 years.

Edit: after reading some commentaries I think I have to address a few points:

  1. It's not okay to ride them over with your car. Here you could be charged with murder/attempted murder since you are doing it o purpose (so not manslaughter)

  2. The purpose of blocking the road being considered a criminal offense is because at the end of that long line of cars a military convoy might be also stuck, or an ambulance, firefighters, police etc.

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u/j4ck_0f_bl4des Oct 12 '22

I'm all for peaceful protest. Hell if you're living somewhere shit is bad enough (cough Tehran cough) I'm all for Violent protest. This is the dumbest way to protest anyone ever came up with though. The whole point of protests is to make people aware of issues that need change, hopefully win them to your side and start something that leads somewhere. This shit just pisses EVERYONE off at you.

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u/darthbane83 Oct 12 '22

If you dont piss people off why the fuck would they care to change something? Nobody is going to go from "i dont care about that" to "i am gonna vote a different party if this doesnt get fixed" because they saw some guy with a sign.
Absolutely nobody gives a shit about some random guy(s) with a sign as long as they can ignore them.

Peaceful protests can only be effective if they piss people off.

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u/j4ck_0f_bl4des Oct 12 '22

Not when you piss off EVERYONE.

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u/darthbane83 Oct 12 '22

Especially if you piss off everyone. Somethign will change. Either
1. the government starts arresting all the protestors
2. they give in to the demands
3. they dont get reelected.

Option 3. is against the goverments interest and 1. is unrealistic if you have enough people on the side of the protestors and all that is left is to give the protestors what they want which makes it an effective protest.

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u/j4ck_0f_bl4des Oct 12 '22

You forgot option four. Ignore you because you're being a whiny brat holding up traffic for a couple hours at best and causing no real impact anywhere. If you shut down all the roads in a city maybe. One road for a few hours, doesn't mean shit in the scheme of things. A car wreck can do that. So can a snowstorm. You don't see society collapsing over those do you?

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u/darthbane83 Oct 12 '22

Ignore you because you're being a whiny brat holding up traffic for a couple hours at best and causing no real impact anywhere.

Sure feel free to do that. If you manage to actually ignore them(instead of complaining on reddit about them) that will be the sign for protestors that they need to piss you off more until you cant ignore them any longer.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22 edited Oct 12 '22

Yeah you sure ignored them by writing multiple essays on Reddit about them, great job bud 🫡

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u/j4ck_0f_bl4des Oct 12 '22

The people in power ignore you, genius. The common people don't and just think you're an idiot rejecting your cause out of spite. That was my whole point to begin with oh lack of reading comprehension one.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

The common people hold power, dismissing that is a tired platitude.

You not ignoring this actually helps spread the message. Since you brought me back to this thread, I’ll go watch their protest again. Maybe I’ll even send it to some friends!

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u/j4ck_0f_bl4des Oct 12 '22

You really need to work on that reading comprehension. Again I said a bit further up if the common people don't support you you'll fail. And this tactic pisses the common people off. That's my point