This was a Critical Mass event, which is why the bicyclists are taking up all of the street as a way to reclaim the streets and protest the lack of safety for riders under usual conditions. It’s not legal, but protests are never useful if they’re fully legal now, are they.

  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Lightor, 1960:

    I’m with you. I get this is a protest, but I don’t protest gun violence against kids by parading them down a firing range. Taking up the space in a whites-only lunch counter can result in you getting hurt, it doesn’t matter what should be our what your ideals are. It’s a restaurant for white people and behaving like this increases the chance that someone gets hurt.

    On top of that this does what every protest that interrupts business, makes people dislike you and your cause.

    • Lightor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Yeah I get it, people who disagree with your are Nazis. It’s called a thought stopping technique. It allows you to dismiss my view point without having to think about it or engage with the content of it, which would risk you having to change your world view. It’s much easier to think you’re always right and calm anyone who disagrees with you a Nazi.

      You don’t live in reality with the rest of us bud.

        • Lightor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          22 days ago

          A poor one that makes a ton of assumptions about my character and what I would do during Nazi Germany all because I said that this isn’t an effective way to gain supporters… Really?