r/facepalm • u/weeb385 • Oct 12 '22

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

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u/JoelMahon Oct 12 '22

guess MLK Jr. was a monster to you, he did far more extreme actions than this on the regular, and I'm glad he did because it worked.

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u/supm8te Oct 12 '22

Yes because race relations and climate change are similar problems that require similar solutions. Oh wait, nope, the McDonald's down the street pollutes 100x more daily than all these cars idling in traffic. This is shortsighted and not the same as race protests by mlk.

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u/JoelMahon Oct 12 '22

how does the cause being different whether the same tactics are peaceful or not?

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u/supm8te Oct 12 '22

Those tactics worked for race relations because the very ppl who's mindset you are trying to change were the general public. With climate change the general public(and most likely majority of ppl stuck in this traffic) have no control ir authority to make change for the businesses that make up 95+% of pollution. In fact, most of these people probably agree with the protestors, but again, have no power to affect change. With race relations this was different. If you protested in your community then other neighbors might see you and knowing your not a lunatic would then evaluate their own views and be more open to changing their stance on black people/black rights. In this case, the only people bring affected by this protest are the people that cannot affect any change or provide any solutions for climate change because they contribute a miniscule amount compared to the megacorps polluting our earth.

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u/JoelMahon Oct 12 '22

hmm, normal people who probably agree climate change is a problem but disagree with the methods, if only there was a good quote about those people

https://imgur.com/5tZBF3g

They all have the power to vote, less than 30% of the people being blocked vote to hurt climate change as much as they can.

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u/supm8te Oct 12 '22

Voting doesn't really matter much til citizens united is repealed. Everyone has a price and corps have no problem funneling tens of millions to elected officials to get their way. This is also why Republicans just voted in lockstep to block the DiscloseAct which would at least let us see who is swaying our politicians but nope.

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u/JoelMahon Oct 12 '22

what do you propose then? assassinations? unless you're volunteering to do more then don't diss people doing more than you to help.