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FaultyCircuitry
06/23/22 9:43:02 AM
#51:


NatsuSama posted...
Rhetoric like this doesn't help and the world isn't a binary place.

Ignoring context to spin something to be right wing is a problem.

I'm not ignoring context. Referring to activists as "soy fucks" is peak alt right and further digging their hole is implying that their jobs are more important than the activists by saying "real jobs."

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Baha05
06/23/22 9:43:37 AM
#52:


FaultyCircuitry posted...
It's sad that people are more okay with the pending collapse of human civilization because we refuse to address climate change than they are with being a widdle bwit wate to their jowb that they probably hate anyways.
And yet how weird is it that the protesters are blocking the road which is further contributing the the very issue they seel to call attention to. Since you know having cars idle and waste gas is totally not speeding this up.

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gunplagirl
06/23/22 9:43:51 AM
#53:


emblem boy posted...
Can we also not block sidewalks, parks, and building entrances during protests? Last thing I want to deal with after a long day is people blocking my path to where I'm going

/s
Also they can't protest if they might see them on TV, like all those football people. But don't worry, they'll definitely listen to the cause that they aren't even aware of.

FaultyCircuitry posted...
It's sad that people are more okay with the pending collapse of human civilization because we refuse to address climate change than they are with being a widdle bwit wate to their jowb that they probably hate anyways.
Basically.

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NatsuSama
06/23/22 9:44:19 AM
#54:


FaultyCircuitry posted...
It's sad that people are more okay with the pending collapse of human civilization because we refuse to address climate change than they are with being a widdle bwit wate to their jowb that they probably hate anyways.
You're twisting into a pretzel to conflate mutually exclusive things.

Having a job that you may or may not hate to pay your bills....bills that for many is paycheck to paycheck to support their families has absolutely nothing to do with:
supporting the collapse of society supporting the anti climate change
Conservatives
Or whatever spin you have.

So it's not a shocker when anger from all creeds gets thrown at someone fucking up their livelihood.

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Laura_Hughes
06/23/22 9:45:46 AM
#55:


gunplagirl posted...
I'd reckon that the threat of going without food as a result of not working is more related to capitalism being a shitty and cruel system but then, that's literally just a basic well documented fact.

gunplagirl posted...
The inaction of society to curb our contributions to global climate change is making the world uninhabitable by humans. Which is to say, society as a collective would be the opposition. These were environmental protesters.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/1/1/AAVk71AADX5X.jpg


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FaultyCircuitry
06/23/22 9:45:47 AM
#56:


Baha05 posted...
And yet how weird is it that the protesters are blocking the road which is further contributing the the very issue they seel to call attention to. Since you know having cars idle and waste gas is totally not speeding this up.

It's really not even a drop in the fucking bucket of things contributing to it.

Our use of fossil fuel based vehicles doesn't help, of course, but ending personal motor vehicles altogether is the only way to get rid of that aspect of things.

The US military and corporations are the real enemy to life on earth.

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FabIe
06/23/22 9:46:06 AM
#57:


FaultyCircuitry posted...
widdle bwit wate to their jowb that they probably hate anyways.

I mean yeah. Corporate America heavily reprimands lateness in 2022.

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DipDipDiver
06/23/22 9:46:20 AM
#58:


The protesters are most certainly in the wrong for blocking a highway, but that doesn't mean you get to assault them any more than if they were standing on the sidewalk
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gunplagirl
06/23/22 9:46:51 AM
#59:


Laura_Hughes posted...
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A_Good_Boy
06/23/22 9:47:30 AM
#60:


It somehow seems even more frustrating that the activists had such weirdly benign reactions to being dragged off the road. If they had fought back the people dragging them that would just make a lot more sense but they reacted like something out of a comedy skit where they were allowing themselves to be dragged off and as soon as people had their backs turned they'd just scoot right on back to the freeway.

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asdf8562
06/23/22 9:48:11 AM
#61:


gunplagirl posted...
Basically
Not basically.

Blocking people from getting to their job to pay their bills and support their families is going to make people angry regardless of the party affiliation.
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SSJ5_Goku
06/23/22 9:48:51 AM
#62:


FaultyCircuitry posted...
I'm not ignoring context. Referring to activists as "soy fucks" is peak alt right and further digging their hole is implying that their jobs are more important than the activists by saying "real jobs."

Yeah there's a hard line in my mind between reasonable leftists, such as myself, and soy fucks. You can either accept that and get over it or continue screaming that anyone you disagree with is "alt right". The latter isn't a great look and certainly wont be changing any minds.

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FaultyCircuitry
06/23/22 9:49:27 AM
#63:


NatsuSama posted...
You're twisting into a pretzel to conflate mutually exclusive things.

Having a job that you may or may not hate to pay your bills....bills that for many is paycheck to paycheck to support their families has absolutely nothing to do with:
supporting the collapse of society supporting the anti climate change
Conservatives
Or whatever spin you have.

So it's not a shocker when anger from all creeds gets thrown at someone fucking up their livelihood.

You clearly aren't illiterate, so please stop trying to twist my words to say what they're not saying.

Referring to professional/career work, as the person I was talking to mentioned, as "real work" is the anti-working class rhetoric that I was talking about.

Digging their grave more with alt right slurs like "soy fuck" makes my case for me on its own.

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gunplagirl
06/23/22 9:49:36 AM
#64:


A_Good_Boy posted...
It somehow seems even more frustrating that the activists had such weirdly benign reactions to being dragged off the road. If they had fought back the people dragging them that would just make a lot more sense but they reacted like something out of a comedy skit where they were allowing themselves to be dragged off and as soon as people had their backs turned they'd just scoot right on back to the freeway.
They can't fight back because you have to assume if someone's gonna assault you for being in the way that they'll get even more violent if you fight back. Plus then there'd be footage that makes the protesters seem like they're violent.

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FaultyCircuitry
06/23/22 9:50:09 AM
#65:


SSJ5_Goku posted...
Yeah there's a hard line in my mind between reasonable leftists, such as myself, and soy fucks. You can either accept that and get over it or continue screaming that anyone you disagree with is "alt right". The latter isn't a great look and certainly wont be changing any minds.

You're not a leftist.

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emblem boy
06/23/22 9:51:20 AM
#66:


rexcrk posted...
Not quite the same thing, but nice try, kid.

Why isn't it the same thing? You think a large amount of people protesting on the sidewalk isn't causing annoyance to pedestrians who don't even have the benefit of sitting I a car with AC and are now having to physically walk in order to find a detour? Or wait in order to access a building they need to get to?

People can find many reason to be annoyed at a protest.
And that's fine, you can be annoyed at things. I mean, it's dumb if that annoyance then causes you to be reactionary and then not support a good cause.

My point is people should really just admit they don't like protests that much.


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Baha05
06/23/22 9:51:20 AM
#67:


gunplagirl posted...
They can't fight back because you have to assume if someone's gonna assault you for being in the way that they'll get even more violent if you fight back. Plus then there'd be footage that makes the protesters seem like they're violent.
As opposed to footage of protesters being assholes

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gunplagirl
06/23/22 9:51:22 AM
#68:


SSJ5_Goku posted...
Yeah there's a hard line in my mind between reasonable leftists, such as myself, and soy fucks. You can either accept that and get over it or continue screaming that anyone you disagree with is "alt right". The latter isn't a great look and certainly wont be changing any minds.
I don't know any leftist who uses "soy" to describe people except for in meme format, like trans women who are leftists jokingly referring to themselves as a soy libcuck in a picture of themselves.

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gunplagirl
06/23/22 9:52:23 AM
#69:


Baha05 posted...
As opposed to footage of protesters being assholes
Violence isn't a good look, my guy. It's a way worse look than peacefully sitting there, no matter how annoying they might come off as.

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SSJ5_Goku
06/23/22 9:52:51 AM
#70:


FaultyCircuitry posted...
You're not a leftist.


Prove it.

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Baha05
06/23/22 9:53:09 AM
#71:


gunplagirl posted...
Violence isn't a good look, my guy. It's a way worse look than peacefully sitting there, no matter how annoying they might come off as.
Right but again neither is blocking traffic more so when that also blocks emergency vehicles.

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deoxxys
06/23/22 9:53:13 AM
#72:


Lol fuck protestors that do this, they should have eggs thrown at them.


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eaglei3
06/23/22 9:54:20 AM
#73:


How effective is this type of protest? The only people who will see you at the scene are the immediate vehicles near the protest. Everyone caught in the traffic beyond the vision of the protest will probably assume it is just another wreck or road work ahead that is causing the slowdown. Then if they find out later it was protesters, they will probably just be pissed and won't even get word or care on what the protest was about.

So then it relies on video coverage. I feel this is a mixed bag as well as you always see comments calling these people "idiots" or worst for blocking roadways like this. The protest point always gets lost when the argument turns into "Well, they shouldn't be in the highway."
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K181
06/23/22 9:54:24 AM
#74:


Look, I'm a sane and rational member of society, but if you delay my commute so much as ten seconds I wish nothing but unspeakable hellfire upon you.

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LongJohnSilvers
06/23/22 9:54:35 AM
#75:


It would be 100% justifiable to run them over.

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NatsuSama
06/23/22 9:55:48 AM
#76:


FaultyCircuitry posted...
You clearly aren't illiterate, so please stop trying to twist my words to say what they're not saying.

Referring to professional/career work, as the person I was talking to mentioned, as "real work" is the anti-working class rhetoric that I was talking about.

Digging their grave more with alt right slurs like "soy fuck" makes my case for me on its own.
I honestly dont care what group says the slurr.

Regardless of whoever else says that, if these protestors are out there on their free time blocking others from getting to their job then it's fair criticism.

Getting a "real job" is not an exclusive phrase. Like it or not, it actually does apply to many people regardless of their creed.

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FaultyCircuitry
06/23/22 9:57:12 AM
#77:


SSJ5_Goku posted...
Prove it.

You've already done that for me.

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gamestunner
06/23/22 9:57:26 AM
#78:


Fuck out of here with that bull shit.


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FaultyCircuitry
06/23/22 9:58:11 AM
#79:


NatsuSama posted...
I honestly dont care what group says the slurr.

Regardless of whoever else says that, if these protestors are out there on their free time blocking others from getting to their job then it's fair criticism.

Getting a "real job" is not an exclusive phrase. Like it or not, it actually does apply to many people regardless of their creed.

Tagged "defends use of slurs"

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cuttin_in_farm
06/23/22 9:58:15 AM
#80:


Gunpla and her crony should be able to notice that even CE doesnt agree with blocking the roads for protest.

Unless yall are just the true enlightened ones, surely its worth thinking you could be in the wrong?

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gunplagirl
06/23/22 9:58:48 AM
#81:


Baha05 posted...
Right but again neither is blocking traffic more so when that also blocks emergency vehicles.
But you're directly comparing it to assault. What point are you trying to even make, you're just going "right, but" to everything I say in immediate response to you while you form no cohesive stance whatsoever.

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deoxxys
06/23/22 9:59:16 AM
#82:


FaultyCircuitry posted...
implying that their jobs are more important than the activists by saying "real jobs."
activists usually dont get paid

If you have the time to waste doing that, you're probably pampered and privileged

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NatsuSama
06/23/22 10:00:23 AM
#83:


FaultyCircuitry posted...
Tagged "defends use of slurs"
Expected since twisting words to feel offended is popular nowadays.

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Baha05
06/23/22 10:00:39 AM
#84:


gunplagirl posted...
But you're directly comparing it to assault. What point are you trying to even make, you're just going "right, but" to everything I say in immediate response to you while you form no cohesive stance whatsoever.
Because no matter what the fact is rather or not they are using violence or peacefully protesting they are in the wrong here because what they are doing is going to piss off people to their cause and they are going to potentially have lives on their hands because traffic jams like these tend to block EMERGENCY VEHICLES.

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gunplagirl
06/23/22 10:01:34 AM
#85:


cuttin_in_farm posted...
Gunpla and her crony should be able to notice that even CE doesnt agree with blocking the roads for protest.

Unless yall are just the true enlightened ones, surely its worth thinking you could be in the wrong?
Where did I say blocking the roads is acceptable? I've only ever said that assault isn't cool and that the protesters weren't violent or going to actively resist the people assaulting them.

You're jumping straight to insults and making up things and attributing them to me after the fact to justify being angry. Which is to say, you're just being hyper emotional about this.

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lderivedx
06/23/22 10:01:56 AM
#86:


People are screaming about emergency vehicles but it's weird that there aren't any emergency vehicles at the front of the line in the video.

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gunplagirl
06/23/22 10:02:28 AM
#87:


Baha05 posted...
Because no matter what the fact is rather or not they are using violence or peacefully protesting they are in the wrong here because what they are doing is going to piss off people to their cause and they are going to potentially have lives on their hands because traffic jams like these tend to block EMERGENCY VEHICLES.
Then why even bring up violence on the part of the protesters if it doesn't matter? Literally your words.

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Baha05
06/23/22 10:03:08 AM
#88:


lderivedx posted...
People are screaming about emergency vehicles but it's weird that there aren't any emergency vehicles at the front of the line in the video.
It's almost as if you know traffic doesn't start and end at the front eh?

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DezDroppedFreak
06/23/22 10:04:40 AM
#89:


Never going to support blocking roadways. Assault in that situation is not justifiable either however.

also the folks that are like oh Im so sorry youll be a little late for work are speaking from an incredible place of privilege

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lderivedx
06/23/22 10:05:28 AM
#90:


Baha05 posted...
It's almost as if you know traffic doesn't start and end at the front eh?

So it's very important that the emergency vehicles get through but the cars didn't get out of the way? You know roads have shoulders and the lanes are notably wider than most vehicles.

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Baha05
06/23/22 10:06:36 AM
#91:


lderivedx posted...
So it's very important that the emergency vehicles get through but the cars didn't get out of the way? You know roads have shoulders and the lanes are notably wider than most vehicles.
And do you know how far backed up it is? Or how these roads specifically are design for the entire stretch?

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LordMarshal
06/23/22 10:07:38 AM
#92:


No ones actually defending them...

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emblem boy
06/23/22 10:07:56 AM
#93:


eaglei3 posted...
How effective is this type of protest? The only people who will see you at the scene are the immediate vehicles near the protest. Everyone caught in the traffic beyond the vision of the protest will probably assume it is just another wreck or road work ahead that is causing the slowdown. Then if they find out later it was protesters, they will probably just be pissed and won't even get word or care on what the protest was about.

So then it relies on video coverage. I feel this is a mixed bag as well as you always see comments calling these people "idiots" or worst for blocking roadways like this. The protest point always gets lost when the argument turns into "Well, they shouldn't be in the highway."

Yep. People actually just shouldn't protest tbh.

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Baha05
06/23/22 10:08:54 AM
#94:


gunplagirl posted...
Then why even bring up violence on the part of the protesters if it doesn't matter? Literally your words.
Because you brought it up?

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SSJ5_Goku
06/23/22 10:10:14 AM
#95:


FaultyCircuitry posted...
You've already done that for me.

Sure. Believe what you want I guess but you're either hilariously bad at trolling or should seek help. I'll have you tagged appropriately.

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LinkPizza
06/23/22 10:11:21 AM
#96:


lderivedx posted...
That's entirely after-the-fact justification for people doing something because they're mad at being inconvenienced. People in their cars don't clean up the highway after a wreck because they might be late to work, so it's weird that the "I might lose my job" only applies here.

No its not People know they can be fired for being late So, they move people out of the way If they know someones carrying medical supplies, they move people out the way so they can get somewhere This is justified right then and there

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gunplagirl
06/23/22 10:11:27 AM
#97:


Baha05 posted...
Because you brought it up?
I didn't bring it up, read post 64 again. I was responding to someone explaining why the protesters couldn't resist being dragged off.

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Kajagogo
06/23/22 10:11:28 AM
#98:


Baha05 posted...
Because you brought it up?


Just ignore the troll. Gunplagirl is doing nothing but instigating fights then acting like they don't know what's going on when you call them out.

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gunplagirl
06/23/22 10:13:25 AM
#99:


Kajagogo posted...
Just ignore the troll. Gunplagirl is doing nothing but instigating fights then acting like they don't know what's going on when you call them out.
ITP: saying that violence isn't cool is instigating

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lderivedx
06/23/22 10:13:28 AM
#100:


Baha05 posted...
And do you know how far backed up it is? Or how these roads specifically are design for the entire stretch?

You can see cars 3 wide in the video. I don't know why they're blocking the road instead of getting out of the way for the emergency vehicle.

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