• @Alteon
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    US citizens. I hope your taking notes. This is how you protest. We may need these sorts of strategies in a year.

    • @cdf12345
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      2810 months ago

      While I agree with you, there is probably about a 100 x chance of being shot in the US when protesting like this.

      • @Alteon
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        410 months ago

        One off? Probably. You have several hundred people doing this? Not likely. The first-hand optics would shake even the police. They can shoot a person. They can’t open fire on people. Not in the US. Not yet, at least.

        • BaroqueInMind
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          They can’t open fire on people. Not in the US. Not yet, at least.

          Yes they can, and they have opened fire on groups of people for less.

        • @Omgpwnies
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          710 months ago

          Rittenhouse took a field trip across state lines to do just that

    • Bob
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      1410 months ago

      I wouldn’t protest like this. Some poor sod on minimum wage’ll have to clean it up, not an elite politician.

      • @aluminium
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        1210 months ago

        Agree, they should do this in the backyard of some politicans mansion

    • @[email protected]
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      710 months ago

      US citizens protest like the French all the time and get called thugs for it. The French love riots and fighting the police.

    • @db2
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      410 months ago

      That and another French revolution tool.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      What are they protesting? Is the protest from a couple months ago for their retirement still ongoing?

      • @paultimate14
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        910 months ago

        Every time I try to look this up a get a variety of different answers. It seems like a lot of different protests using similar means.

        The two most common that seem to pop up are:

        1. Environmental protection laws. Farmers want to continue to burn fossil fuels, using pesticides, and dumping artificial fertilizers into the ground.

        2. Economic protection from foreigners. I found at least one case where a McDonald’s was the target because they allegedly were serving foreign-sourced beef

  • IninewCrow
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    2710 months ago

    I love the French … they are the originators of modern protest and centuries later, they’re still the leaders in this respect.

    • ForestOrca
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      810 months ago

      What exactly am I seeing here? Tires, hay, and they are wetting it down with some slurry? In front of some fancy building?

      • HonkyTonkWoman
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        810 months ago

        Not certain here, but the truck appears to be a pump truck that drains residential sewage tanks.

        If that’s the case, then they’re likely hosing everything down with poo.

        • @Ramenator
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          1510 months ago

          That’s not residential sewage, that’s manure. Animal excrements often aged to concentrate it

            • HonkyTonkWoman
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              310 months ago

              Y’all’s pig shit gets fancy trucks? We just loaded up a spreader, attached it to the tractor, & dumped our pig shit in it.

              Saved the fancy trucks for the fancy poo.

  • Nfamwap
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    310 months ago

    TIL tyres are a vegetable. I assumed they were a fruit.