• Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com
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    6 months ago

    You just don’t want them to be inconvenient. So you can ignore them. So nothing will change. Like you want.

    In my city, there is a guy with a megaphone shouting into traffic nearly every day. Annoying, but I support his right to be there. In another nearby, there is a section known for protests and signs every weekend with dozens of participants. I support their right to assemble. There is a diehard Trumper who absolutely plastered their front yard with signs. I recognize their right as an American. And I have written 3 letters to my local government this year. I have signed ballot initiatives brought forth by organizations I support. This is how you change a democracy.

    Yeah, who do people who want cops to stop shooting them think they are?

    That’s a great argument until you substitute in a cause you don’t support. Hmm, what would people be saying if some pro-January 6th-ers took over the bridge?

    Certainly never to you. You love the status quo and never want it to change.

    We’re always changing. It is natural. However, I refrain from emotional decisions and tend to break problems down to their cores. The “cause”, whatever it may be, is an emotional trigger employed to justify a course of illegal action. I am entirely unaffected. I have, instead, viewed this event from the perspective of rational logic. This is unacceptable behavior. Period.

    Also, side note, thanks for the debate. I really enjoyed it, but I got to sleep. :)

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      6 months ago

      That’s a great argument until you substitute in a cause you don’t support. Hmm, what would people be saying if some pro-January 6th-ers took over the bridge?

      It happened in my town. Remember the Trump Trains? Blocked traffic for miles.

      I get that you don’t like people wanting to do something effective that might draw attention to their cause and are trying to use trumpists as an excuse, but here’s the thing: Cops won’t enforce this consistently. Trumpists will still be allowed to march, but people cops disagree with won’t. I have no doubt that this is the only reason you support making protesters felons, nor do I think that this will stop with protests in the street.

      We’re always changing.

      And you’re fine with that as long as it keeps being for the worse and no one adds any minutes to your precious commute. You want to make people felons on the off chance that you might have to choose an alternate route one day. Your commute is not that important.

      I am entirely unaffected.

      Then act like it and stop supporting making protesting in a way that hurts your feelings a felony.