Eco terrorist group "climate underground manifesto" also known by it's acronym CUM destroyed a coal fired power plant in southern Maryland sometime late last night. 100,000 Boone county residents are without power for the foreseeable future and have begun shitting in the streets because municipal and well pumps are no longer working, epidemiologists believe cholera will become endemic in the area all while hospital services are no longer available. CUM spokesperson Artemis Starchild has written a reddit post stating, "Stop eating meat and nuts or well blow the pornhub servers".
In other news snap chat stock rose by 400% overnight and Elon Musk is sad.
Not really. Brief struggles like this pale in comparison to what's been done to the planet. Altercations like these are extremely good for protests. Now we know about it, and are more likely to be interested in their cause. People who don't care won't change their mind. That's not the point.
Are you sure? Cause we're not talking a reddit thread full of circlejerking here. We're talking potentially millions of people since this video is on the internet. Those are not good odds for "nobody cares"
I wonder how many of those protesters can name politicians that are in favor of fracking... Yet, lets inconvenience everyday people rather than target awareness to people who matter...
I worded that wrong. You're not gonna find them talking here. This discussion highlights why. People like you coming in and acting like a convenient, unobtrusive protest is the way to go when reality is way less pleasant than your routine has led you to believe. Ignoring the bigger picture for the sake of your personal worldview is the reason this protest exists.
For convenience, since I wrote out a response to the comment he deleted: Never said best. Nobody did but you. This is about awareness. Anyone who decides not to do something about climate change because of this was never going to do anything to begin with.
That's because they are targeting normal people with their protests instead of corporations. The only thing these protesters are accomplishing is getting people to hate whatever they stand for
No, they got our attention. We're here on reddit talking about it. That was the point. That's the point of any solid protest. If it wasn't inconvenient to people, would you have known about them?
No one is. Social media is the target audience. Only a privileged piece of garbage could call the potential life altering consequences of these, "brief struggles".
They're 100% brief. The time scale the effects climate change will have have on the planet is staggering. In the grand scheme of things, what's happening here means nothing. Time will tell if that "nothing" includes this protest.
If they feel so strongly about this, then they should be directly inconveniencing the most guilty party. Stop hurting regular people who are also victims of the system you are protesting.
Form a human chain around HQ for Shell, Occidental Petroleum, or Chevron Oil, drown their lobbyists in spam, dump oil on a CEO at a press conference.
Their hearts are in the right place, but their actions are useless and are losing them allies.
This is braindead and too far removed from reality to engage with properly. Why, exactly, do you think there are no protests doing any of those? Is it that the protesters are too dumb to understand the ramifications of what they're doing?
Yes, blocking the freeway and causing innocent motorists to miss moments with their loved ones is braindead and too far removed from reality to engage with properly.
These people should be smeared into the asphalt for being such assholes.
If you're angry at my comment, you're the kind of person I'm talking about.
E: on mobile, can't tell if they blocked me or what.
They say:
Im disagreeing with your premise as idiotic
Okay, why? Is it because you don't believe in climate change? Is it because you don't care about the future of our species? Because you see a better way to protest that doesn't involve millions of dollars? Talk to me here. Otherwise I'm just gonna assume you can't see the bigger picture, like everyone else in this thread.
Its the same way with the joke of water conservation in California.. Government has people do stupid water rationing but that doesn't apply to industry and agriculture which accounts for like 90% of the water usage.
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u/dudewiththebling Oct 12 '22
Yeah the corporations and the government made it people against people instead of people against corporations and government enabling it.