Current Events > People against protesting really believe nothing is important

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there's more than one route

the only downside to blocking roads really is ambulances.

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Its no accident that over 60% of Americans are one missed paycheck away from homelessness.

how do you even begin to address such an issue. even reorganizing the system doesn't account for the fact that it's probably just not something that can be controlled.

Asherlee10 posted...

Yeah, that's what I mean. This is by design. A population that is worried about putting food on the table is going to have a hard time worrying about anything else.

Who do you think is designing that and bonus points if you can answer without an antisemitic dogwhistle

hockeybub89 posted...

Methods of protest aren't bad because some people use them for bad causes. By that logic, nothing is the proper way because bad people can use the same avenues. Voting and laws are also force, and used by bad actors for nefarious purposes. Should we abolish democracy and then society lest we use the same tactics as the people we oppose?

And I didn't say America was some utopia for minorities, but racism, homophobia and transphobia existing doesn't mean there hasn't been an overall increase in rights over the years, and only because of force.

I am very sorry you live in that situation and my own home life is less than supportive, but we unfortunately cannot force individual minds to change. But that doesn't mean rights are just postponed until we achieve world peace organically. No one has that kind of time.

There wouldn't be even rights at risk of being taken away if no one had ever fought and forced those rights into existence in the first place.

You called me defeatist and then turned around and basically said there are no rights because bigots are still resisting and hurting people.

I called you defeatist for solely dwelling on the tactic of trying to bring other people into this.

It's the same dickish behavior that convinces terrorists to kidnap people for the sole purpose of bringing innocents into the conflict. Some of them believing the world will end if they don't intervene.

You speak like a cultist that only knows one mode: assimiliate.

Asherlee10 posted...

What?

You said it's by design, who made that design? Was it "They"?

g980 posted...

You said it's by design, who made that design? Was it "They"?

it's true that most of the wealth is concentrated in a few hands and entities, maybe no more than 100-200. it has nothing to do with Judaism though

g980 posted...

Who do you think is designing that and bonus points if you can answer without an antisemitic dogwhistle

Capitalists.

IShall_Run_Amok posted...

Capitalists.

Thanks but no bonus points for you :/

g980 posted...

Who do you think is designing that and bonus points if you can answer without an antisemitic dogwhistle

I dunno, maybe the same people who pass laws designed to fill jail cells for slave labor instead of maintaining actual public safety.

Or the same people who openly admit that keeping the cost of higher education and a chance at a better life prohibitively high for people in lower socio-economic classes is necessary to ensure the most number of young citizens possible are willing to die in a desert if it means they can go to school if they make it back alive.

DementedDurian posted...

I called you defeatist for solely dwelling on the tactic of trying to bring other people into this.

It's the same dickish behavior that convinces terrorists to kidnap people for the sole purpose of bringing innocents into the conflict. Some of them believing the world will end if they don't intervene.

You speak like a cultist that only knows one mode: assimiliate.

Weird take when your literal family wants to destroy you for being trans

You can keep your both sides bullshit.

g980 posted...

Thanks but no bonus points for you :/

I want my bonus points.

Not against all protests
Just the ones that inhibit my life
Yes daily life is importante

Enclave posted...

It's hard to be specific when talking about protests in the abstract, this should be obvious I would think but when you are dealing with people who are anti-being inconvenienced it's easy for them to interpret anything not completely precise in exactly the way they want to in order to push the narrative they want to push.

It's a big part of why I left this thread, it's not worth the aggravation of repeating myself over and over in different ways just because people can't stand being potentially personally inconvenienced. This thread has been giving me strong "If something isn't going to completely solve a problem on its own then it's not worth doing at all" energy and my time on 261 taught me it's typically not worth interacting with people like that, their minds are set.

Yeah I agree. Most of these all or nothing approaches end with nothing, which just wastes all that energy when change and improvement is still possible.