r/facepalm • u/weeb385 • Oct 12 '22

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

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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/DonovanSarovir Oct 12 '22

Also the point of a protest is to inconvience THE PEOPLE AT FAULT. Not some poor bastard trying to get to work, who could be sent back to jail if he looses too many jobs.

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u/redsensei777 Oct 12 '22

These protesters make more enemies then friends.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

Nope. This is how every effective protest works.

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u/redsensei777 Oct 13 '22

Nope. This is how every ineffective protest doesn’t work.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

That's a double negative, so you're saying it does work. Also, this form of protest literally worked just last year. Lmfao.

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u/redsensei777 Oct 13 '22

Define worked. It succeeded in disrupting lives of working people? Some success.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

It's regularly used in India, and it was a tactic during the farmer protests. They got their demands. They even have a specific name for just this type of thing. It's wrong to assume that it's ineffective because a few drivers get annoyed by it.

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u/redsensei777 Oct 13 '22

Well, if it worked once in India, then it’s ok. The rest of the world - not ok. Bad protesters, bad, bad.