601
Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2025
601 points (100.0% liked)
World News
47121 readers
2835 users here now
A community for discussing events around the World
Rules:
-
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
-
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
-
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed. Sources that have a Low or Very Low factual reporting rating or MBFC Credibility Rating may be removed.
-
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
-
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF 10/19
-
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
-
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
-
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
Lemmy World Partners
News [email protected]
Politics [email protected]
World Politics [email protected]
Recommendations
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Protest all you want. I'm not getting late to work because of you. I also care about the climate, but holding up traffic isn't going to get me on your side
That’s because you only care about the status quo. Congrats, you’re part of the problem. Remember that if you’re ever confronted with rising flood waters with your boss saying you can’t leave. Just repeat “ I want this”
Nice, you completely misinterpreted my comment. Applaud yourself 👏👏
They didn't.
You just didn't like the translation of your words into their consequences.
Most Nazi civilians weren't evil in any special unique way. They just didn't care about any moral framework more than they cared about not having the status quo broken.
It's an aspect of the banality of evil.
Your attitude, sadly the most common attitude, is the main driving force for the most heinous of outcomes.
Here it is being used to justify the literal end of the fucking human race and turning our planet into Venus.
👍
🖕
edit: lmfao, that one impotent downvote.
Lost your words?
“I’m not being late for work “. The rest was to make that statement not what it was.
You muppet.
I'd rather see disruptive action taken against gas stations, ICE car dealers, muffler shops, and other entities directly associated with the oil industry.
When JSO stops asking lawmakers to make "jaywalking" a felony offense, and they eventually get around to actually "stopping oil", let me know.
You aren't going to join their side either way. You just care about getting to work on time. You only care about the climate as much as it affects your day to day life, so I wouldnt go around telling people I care about the climate if I was you.
Nope. Wrong again. These ad hominem attacks that assume my position do nothing to further discourse. I actively support and vote for eco-friendly parties, and would participate in protests if and only if they gained widespread traction. I'm not going to protest when most people don't give enough of a fuck about climate. Disruptive protests will only create more dissent and worse amongst those that share the same sentiments.
The George Floyd protests would've never worked if they remained localized to Minnesota, were disruptive and had very few participants. It needed to be nationalized. The common people must also be united on the same goal. Most people don't care enough about climate change yet to support disruptive protests. I'm simply trying to be practical and realise that the way most climate change activist groups are going about raising awareness isn't working.
The JustStopOil protests have been going on for years and yet there's been no action by any government. Wouldn't it be smart to consider other avenues of awareness creation? A wise man once said, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result".
Vote harder next time!
That's not true. Government have indeed acted in response to JSO protests.
They have increased penalties for jaywalking and obstructing traffic.
+1
So are you gonna plow through them? Sounds like a sane response to being late for work.
And if you care about the climate I have bad news - we would already be on the same side, but you only care up to the point that it will impact you personally, and that is why you suck.
You wish you could murder people who inconvenience you?
You are a terrible person, on the inside
As we can see, on the outside too.
No, i think I don't like to be inconvenienced that's what.
That is a good definition of a horrible person.
You're the poster child for the banality of evil.
👍
💩🍦😋🫵
And you think its normal to wish you could murder people without consequence?
You wish you could murder people for making you late. That tells us all everything we need to know about you and what kind of person you are.
👍
Go to anger management classes before you murder someone.
It is not acceptable to wish committing vehicular manslaughter against people who slightly annoy you.
Anger management classes focus on directing anger appropriately, as opposed to lashing out against others.
JSO's anger at the oil industry does not justify taking action against the general public.
You are a fucking joke. Full stop.
Yeah I know, God forbid anything interrupt my employers steady exploitation of me for financial gain
If they stop being exploited, they stop being able to pay their bills. Kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Iirc they didn't even block the road. They hung signs and climbed into the poles above the road. The police blocked the road. This has all the energy of the police calling a protest a riot when they were the violent ones. They escalate it, blame the protestors, and people like you eat it up.
Get fucked you self-centered dickhead. Why go to work? What are you saving money for if it's in serious danger of burning down? Can you eat your cash if it becomes worthless?
My god, so much lack of insight and foresight.
Unhinged take what the actual fuck
Get a brain, numbnuts.
If you want the protesters gone, vote for the party that will give in to their demands. You seem like a practical sort who only cares about results. Give them what they want and they'll go away.
Who told you I don't already vote for eco-friendly parties?
Good. Next step: write an email to your representative saying you're sick of these protesters and you want the government to do whatever they say so they'll go away.
This is one of those nuanced positions that it appears Lemmy users are incapable of understanding.
It's possible to simultaneously care about climate change and acknowledge that some protests are counter productive.
If you'd said "I don't like to stop at the altar to pray for climate change action on my way to work because it seems pointless" that would've been a statement.
I think the core problem is that the majority of people just don't care. The US just elected a president who will take no action. Protesting isn't going to make people care.
I hope they don't organise marathons or street fairs where you're at, or worse, resurface a road.