Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found

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I am mildly inconvenicenced for a short term, I demand to restrict basic freedoms and go for the highest sentence!

God help I even change my life a little to protect the life of literally billions of people.

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The school didn't give out detentions for people being late that day because hundreds of students AND teachers were late. The detention wasn't the consequence, it was the fact that people missed entire lessons, teachers couldn't set up, it disrupted the entire day for everyone.

These morons decided that their pettiness exceeded anyone's desire or need to work or learn. And because of that I refuse to see any reason to be sympathetic to them.

Why am I, and all the people working hard to educate themselves and others, inconvenieced instead of the gigantic oil companies that will have a greater impact on the planet in 1 year than all of us will in 100. These people should be ashamed of themselves.

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That must be how innocent white people felt when their meals that they paid for were interrupted by black people illegally sitting in their restaurants. The other diners weren't to blame. Why didn't the protesters just go after Big Restaurant and leave the law abiding diners to exercise their right to dine in peace?

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Except many of us who actually care about the cause say this because traffic delays and vandalizing paintings irritate the fuck out of people and set them against the cause of the protest. You can spew more profanity against for being like that if you wish, but it doesn’t change facts.

It’s like finding a way to stage a protest that just makes eggs more expensive. Yay protest! But don’t expect any good to come of it.

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A non-disruptive protest is masturbation.

A protest is disruption.

That's why protests in designated protest zones out of the eyelines and more importantly away from the profit operations of those being protested are an intentional and effective method of completely neutering protest.

We have protest in the US. It just doesn't mean anything anymore.

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That is in no way comparable. These are privileged people who have had zero hardship in life so they feel guilty and join a climate group. Don't even fucking tell me that this is in any way comparable to racism. Whenever lemmy users come up with an analogy for something it's always Nazis and racism, just please stop emotionally escalating EVERYTHING and talk like a normal human being.

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Yes. I am self centred. I demand basic rights to freedom be restricted, because these people did the same to thousands. I'm not going to decide not to go to school because a couple of hippies decided to do a protest

And me not going to school won't save the lives of billions of people. Such a braindead comment.

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Little old lady spends 20 months in prison for blocking a main road and being mad at rich people.

President of the United States, insurrectionist, creep, man who suggested he'd got a Nazi to hack the elections, certified felon, spends ZERO months in prison and gets to have a party.

This is why I smoke weed.

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Tbf you clearly need more schooling to learn the effective use of protest throughout history, and how those rights have been fought for, and how they’re being eroded in real time whilst utter morons like you enable it through rhetoric.

Someone please educate this fucker

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I'd rather be educated by my teachers than lemmy users Thank you very much

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It's why I don't.

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Yeah. Don't give the fascists an excuse to send you to prison for a victimless crime.

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Kindly ask them about the current prognoses, like the Club of Rome one, the expected number of climate refugees in the next decades, and how well we are on track to hit any climate goal. And then about a protest form that will actually work and stop unprecedented human suffering.

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You seem to think that I don't believe or I'm not scared of climate change. I'm completely supportive of initiatives to prevent the usage of fossil fuels and pollution, however these actions have done nothing but alienate the majority of the public. If you go to the UK and ask nornal people about JSO, they'll probably have nothing but negative opinions. This form of protest will do nothing to "hit a climate goal". Vandalising art will just get you booed at, laughed at and thrown in the slammer as you rightfuilly should. These idiots simply create more human suffering as an excuse for stopping human suffering, and I don't believe in such a cause for a single second of the day. When I'm stuck in traffic for 3 hours, I'm not going to think "wow these protests are going to save the planet!", I'm going to think "these people are making me late" and that's all I care about. Sorry.

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I'm not comparing it to racism, you're taking the wrong point from that. Protests aren't supposed to make you comfortable. They are meant to disrupt, even if you are just trying to mind your own business. Not every white person in my analogy is racist or against black rights, my point was to show how dumb they would be for voicing annoyance. Climate protestors didn't ruin your life or even your day, just like sit in protestors didn't harm anyone else. You are just dramatic and have main character syndrome.

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Unhinged take what the actual fuck

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I don't know what it is about the British Isles but they produce some of the most bat shit insane takes I've ever read.
"This person made me late to school one time, so she should spend an extra month in prison." Like that is the most lead micromoles per litre of blood I've seen written in text.

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“Give me convenience or give me death”

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I think the key is who it is disruptive to. Blocking traffic just pisses off the average person. The decision makers don't care about the average person. You gotta disrupt the decision makers. But you also have to be prepared for them to fight back hard.

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Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found