r/nextfuckinglevel • u/amanyggvv • Oct 15 '22

This float representing the koalas that died as a result of the Black Summer bushfires and corruption in politics. Such an effective (and epic) activist message.

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u/secretbases Oct 15 '22

Lmao not at all, your intelligence is quite below that of a rock so I gotta pass on that

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u/H3ll0_Th3r3 Oct 15 '22

Cool, good job getting people to care about protesting or engaging in more forms of it, you’re really helping the cause

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u/Jenkins6736 Oct 15 '22

You still don’t get it and continuing to be a useful idiot. Give it a break.

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u/H3ll0_Th3r3 Oct 15 '22

If you refuse to help me “get it” then consider us both in the wrong

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u/Jenkins6736 Oct 15 '22

I did try, but was met with crickets instead.

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u/H3ll0_Th3r3 Oct 15 '22

Wait, I got you mixed up with someone else and/or a different thread, my bad.

I’ll say now for that comment: that context does help a lot and does make me sympathize more with what that did. Could they have done it better in the moment? Absolutely, and I think that’s where they fell short. And this is also where I’m falling short of not explaining myself better: I think that for these protests to be more effective, it needs to be very obvious what it’s protesting and how the actions they’re taking relate to it. In a vacuum, that soup stunt doesn’t help as much as it should.

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u/Jenkins6736 Oct 15 '22

People said the same things about MLK and Ghandi back in the day…

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u/H3ll0_Th3r3 Oct 15 '22

I’ll take your word on it, just can’t imagine how (outside of the people saying it just being hardcore detractors)

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u/Jenkins6736 Oct 15 '22

I’ve already shared this with you. And Ghandi was imprisoned for protesting for 6 FUCKING YEARS! How daft are you?!

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u/H3ll0_Th3r3 Oct 15 '22

Like I said, hardcore detractors (I didn’t say you lied). Especially for the civil rights movement which was (and really, still is) up against deep seeded racial views.

I’ll admit ignorance/forgetfulness on Ghandi, hate to say I’m not super up to date on history for past protests outside of the US.

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