A pro-Palestinian protest action briefly blocked all traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Wednesday morning.

Starting at about 7:45 a.m. Protesters stopped cars and stretched banners across the roadway denouncing Israel’s bombing of Rafah in the Gaza Strip and demanding that the U.S. stop arming Israel.

Northbound and southbound traffic on the bridge was at a standstill as of 8 a.m.

  • @[email protected]
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    -310 months ago

    forcing traffic to halt on a bridge isnt going to stop a war on the other side of the planet.

    • @SquirtleHermit
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      1210 months ago

      It’s funny, they said the same thing about the protests against the Vietnam war.

      • @afraid_of_zombies
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        410 months ago

        And it didn’t. The protests started in earnest a full 8 years before the war ended.

          • @afraid_of_zombies
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            -310 months ago

            Yes clearly it wasn’t the method that was wrong it was the humans weren’t noble enough.

            We solve problems in democracy by peaceful protest, voting, lawsuits, and swaying public opinion. We don’t solve problems in a democracy by blocking ambulances and pissing the hell out of regular people. No one just trying to pick up their kids is going to want to hear about your cause when you are blocking the road.

            • Uranium3006
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              210 months ago

              they don’t block ambulances, they let them through. you’ve never been to a protest and it shows

              • @afraid_of_zombies
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                010 months ago

                Uh huh. So how do they know an ambulance isnt backed up well out of sight from the traffic jam they caused? Trick question. They fucking don’t.

                Your friends suck and cause death

            • You do realize that your democracy is founded on violent revolution? And that slavery had to be abolished in a civil war? That the civil rights movement was shunned in the same way, now the protesters against genocide are shunned, because it inconveniences the white man on his day to day business?

              If you truly object to non violent civil disobedience, than you need to object to violent revolution and civil war even more so, and reintegrate the US into the UK and offer yourself up for slavery, to reinstate what was unjustly overturned.

              • @afraid_of_zombies
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                -210 months ago

                white man

                Should have started with that I would have known to block you earlier. Much the same way your friends are blocking ambulances