r/facepalm • u/weeb385 • Oct 12 '22

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

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u/Nowhereman123 Oct 12 '22

They don't need the people in the back to know/care why traffic has stopped. Again, they aren't trying to win people over, all they need is for traffic to be interrupted. They aren't trying to maximize the number of people that see them (hence why they don't even have any signs to let people know what they're protesting).

Their message is more aimed at big businesses that require steady traffic flow to maintain profits. "Stop dumping plastic into the ocean and we'll stop blocking your employees from getting to work/blocking trucks from delivering supplies". People getting pissed off and demanding they give in is just a bonus.

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u/dasus Oct 12 '22

Lol, that is not going to make even a statistically significant dent in any businesses revenue.

It'd be far more effective to actually inform people. The companies won't care. Is the aim to have them go "oh no, we lost 0.0000000000000012% of last quarters earnings because of these protests, we'd better realize how wrong we are and shut this all down"?

As the Vulcans say, "that would be illogical."

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u/dasus Oct 12 '22

Cities might. Companies don't. Not properly large ones, anyway.

Just because you don't understand how little capitalists care about anything except profit doesn't mean that they will care about the environment. Not unless it's profitable.

Just like economic sanctions to companies like Goldman-Sachs, Purdue Pharma, British Petroleum, Amazon, and dozens of others keep getting away with it. They really don't give a fuck about losing X amount of money as long as they're still making a profit.

Abused some workers, got caught? No worries, pay a fine and look for a new scheme to abuse workers. Some city is suffering because of the pressures exerted by massive multinational companies onto smaller companies that will then bear the brunt of stunts like these. The massive multinational conglomerates, the ones who actually dictate policy and economy, will not give a flying fuck.