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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's only a rebellion if you lose.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

"Rebellion" used to be a positive term (think Star Wars but in real life).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

That's a feature not a contradiction

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Is there some reason this looks like a photocopy of a faxed photocopy? And no alt text or link to source: is OP just trying to break accessibility out of perverse joy? I wonder what they did to OP to deserve that.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Yes. A quite recent example from Germany:

Letzte Generation (Last Generation) a group of climate activists which glued themselves onto streets, usually carefully planned, organized and communicated with emergency services (such that ambulances can pass). They just got all of the hate and achieved not really much.

Then there were some farmers who were unhappy about governmental advances to reduce or remove the "agricultural diesel" subsidies. They've blocked highway entrace ramps with burning car tyres and dung, went really hardcore compared to the Letzte Generation, and finally got what they wanted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Maybe the farmers just had an "easier" goal. Just remove the taxes again but the last generation wanted to stop climate change which isn't just done with one small step..

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The issue with peaceful protests is that they usually don't go far enough.

In your example, the farmers went two steps further and it made the difference.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Having the support of major news media and the lobby arm of Big Agriculture (who partially incited the riots) surely helped more than their methods.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Absolutely, so people that don't have that should inconvenience people more.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

"A Riot is the Language of the Unheard"

-Martin Luther King Jr.

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