• gmtom@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Oh no, how will we ever cope without the support of spiteful dickheads who weren’t doing a single fucking thing to help in the first place.

    Peoe like you don’t understand the point of these protests. It’s not about winning you lot over, because nothing was ever going to do that. We have been protesting “the right way” for decades and people like you just stuck your head in the sand and ignored the problem to focus on your own convenience. And now we’re royally fucked. So all we can do now is get in pepples way, disrupt their lives so they are forced to pay some kind of attention.

    When people like you say you disaprove of these protests, what you really mean is you want to be able to go back to ignoring the problem.

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      11 months ago

      If you don’t realise why killing political support for your cause is bad, by all means, keep doing what you’re doing. If you want to affect real change, be nice to the people from whom you want votes. Democracy requires discussion and compromise. Pissing on your allies does the opposite of what you want.

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        11 months ago

        Okay, but we have DECADES of proof that shoenthat way hadn’t worked.

        You can keep talking about “bring nice” all you like and take the high road, but it just does not work.

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          11 months ago

          That democracy doesn’t work that way? Okay, if convincing people to vote for your cause doesn’t work in a democracy, how does it work?

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            11 months ago

            After decades of protesting “the right way” how many seats do the greens have? How many votes? How many people care enough about the environment that they would actually change who they vote for based off their climate policy?

            Do you think the people getting red in the face over a 5 minute delay in their car would have changed their vote if we had just aked them nicely?

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              11 months ago

              For me the biggest problem with the Greens is that they don’t talk about a realistic lifestyle that achieves their climate aims. As far as I can tell they just want us to sit around in forests banging rocks together and going “ug”. It’s all no to this, no to that, and no positive suggestions about anything.

              Edit: oh and another thing it’s because of those wankers that fuel taxes and taxes on taxes are so fucking high.