• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    2 months ago

    Who says everyone is going to work?

    Maybe someone’s on their way to the hospital to see their dying mom and misses her final moments because of this shenanigan? What if someone is in an ambulance and needs to get to the hospital or on their way to pick up a sick kid?

    What if I just really need to take a dump? What if I’m coming home from a long shift, am starving, and just want to go to bed? Running low on gas / battery charge, it’s hot AF out, and run out trying to not bake in the sun by running the A/C?

    The people stuck in traffic driving EVs aren’t part of the problem, so why are they being punished?

    I drive a hybrid myself (can’t afford an EV yet), try to minimize my driving overall, and when I’m out on the road, it’s for a purpose. I’m trying my goddamned best here, and these jackasses are indiscriminately holding everyone hostage in a traffic jam.

    If my $400 worth of groceries melt / spoil because of shit like this, you can bet I’m going to be royally pissed. That shit’s expensive, and I can’t afford another trip for two weeks. Guess the kids are gonna go hungry. :shrug:

    That’s a lot of “what if’s” but it’s also a lot of people they’re disrupting. These protesters don’t know these peoples’ lives, but they sure as hell are negatively impacting them.

    If they want to protest, fine. But don’t take it out on people just trying to live their lives, who may or may not be part of the problem, and may have important places to be.

    That’s not what heroes do.

    • enkers@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Ah cool, just complain and don’t offer any alternative suggestions. Glad you can come up with countless ways how you might personally be inconvenienced in the short term.

      Unfortunately, if you think a brief traffic stoppage is bad, you might be unhappy to learn what happens if we don’t turn this around. Mass drought and famine, skyrocketing food prices, flooding, days you can’t even leave your house. Does that sound more or less inconvenient?