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

[drmoose@lemmy.world]

This sort of defeatist take is not helping anyone either.

[sunglocto@lemmy.zip]

Mkay, I'm sure being called a piece of shit will get me to agree with your cause.

[sunglocto@lemmy.zip]

Do you think I care if people on Lemmy downvote me? Random strangers that I will never meet in my entire life? I'll say my honest opinions regardless of what the general public thinks of them

Ask anyone in the UK who has heard of JSO and their response will almost certainly be negative. Nobody likes these guys except for internet users or fanatics.

[sunglocto@lemmy.zip]

Circumcised or uncut?

[sunglocto@lemmy.zip]

Yea she should

[sunglocto@lemmy.zip]

Did you know that one traffic event can impact traffic over the entirety of southern England? I don't take the M25 but this event impacted the entire transport pipeline. Also, just because you're in London doesn't mean your rich. London has some of the highest deprivation in the country.

[sunglocto@lemmy.zip]

Yes i have main character syndrome. Is that a bad thing?

[walk_blessed@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I don't suppose it matters. What's more concerning is that you're probably unwashed and covered in smegma.

[semjaza@lemmynsfw.com]

No, being in London doesn't mean you're rich. But if you live in Greenwich you don't get anywhere near the M25 to get to your state school.

[sunglocto@lemmy.zip]

It absolutely did

[suodrazah@lemmy.world]

I couldn't give a shit if you agree with me.

[psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I am not anti weed.

At the same time. I don't judge someone for their preferences and understand why they wouldn't want to.

ALSO! Stop throwing around accusations like "chinese propagandist" please. I said nothing that could justify that. Lighten up.

[scarabic@lemmy.world]

If you think that food and transportation are items of convenience, you must live a privileged life indeed.

[5in1k@lemm.ee]

Yes I would like there to continue to be enough food grown on the land we are currently using to feed everyone. It would be more than inconvenient if the cropland turned to desert for sure.

[modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world]

I'm not defeatest. I just can't stand focusing on impractical solutions instead of things that can make a difference.

[drmoose@lemmy.world]

You say it's impractical and I say it very much is. What now?

[alexstarfire@lemmy.world]

Your stance feels more like a "everyone disliked that" to me.

[modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world]

Vote for progressive candidates (even if they are dem) in the midterms, and advocate that others do so. That's the easy thing. Low chance of success, similar effort to claiming everyone else should care about things they don't.

Next up, run for local office. But don't campaign, just pay the application fee, put your name in, and send in a write up for the voter guide that says to support the real progressive candidates. Slightly more effort, but slightly more impact.

There are tons of small things you can do. Even donating $5 to a progressive candidate would be more effective than saying people should care.

[swingingthelamp@midwest.social]

They kind of have a point about blocking roads being ineffective, but for entirely the wrong reason. Having been stuck in traffic caused by protests blocking streets several times myself, I know that for most of the drivers, it's utterly indistinguishable from all the other traffic jams. Unless you're right up front to see what's causing it, it could very well just be another event at the fairgrounds, or one of the regularly-scheduled crashes.

Put another way, maybe driving is actually a protest against cars? It is pretty damn effective at blocking streets.

[soulg@sh.itjust.works]

Same to you, child