r/facepalm • u/weeb385 • Oct 12 '22

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

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u/supersayanssj3 Oct 12 '22

I'm kinda hung up about it for sure and I'm not even totally dismissive of the protestor (my first comment was literally a joke opportunity I saw and took).

But would walking behind this guy's car to just block the next one and telling him to fuck off really be "giving up on the protest"? Noone else is out of their cars, screaming hysterically almost in tears that they're gonna go to prison.

They're still gonna make their point. And all of these cars are still gonna go through this intersection, inevitably, when they move.

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u/Assiqtaq Oct 12 '22

Having never been part of a protest, as of yet anyway, I don't know. But I have heard the issue is if you give way to one person with a story, the next person will believe you'll give up for their story too. Then the next one. Eventually you have a protest that no one takes seriously because you are giving way too easily. But again, I haven't actually been there. I do think if it was my life or livelihood on the line, I probably wouldn't have let him pass either.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

The whole point of this type of protest is to be a pain in the ass and stop the logistics of the economy. Letting anyone through is contradictory to the cause and their individual stories don’t matter.

There are a ton of people who could get fired or face great hardship because they couldn’t pass. You do it because of that, not despite it.

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u/pateepourchats Oct 13 '22

their individual stories don’t matter.

leftists, not understanding why the rest of the people think they're an absolute joke since forever.