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

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.

              • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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                9 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.

    • derf82@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Wait, do you think people continuing to drive would somehow cause more Palestinian deaths? Is that what you are claiming? You do know the vehicles are not carrying weapons for Israel or anything like that?

      The fact is, this protest saved not one life. It changed no one’s mind. It accomplished nothing but making a lot of people have a bad day.

        • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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          9 months ago

          The problem with a lot of protests is the protesters don’t understand the point of a protest.

          Sometimes people get so emotional over a cause they can’t understand things from the perspective of other people.

          So they end up coming off like selfish crazy people which at best convinces no one, and at worst turns people against their cause.

          Many times protests are just about people wanting to be around other people that share their emotions about the cause. This results in a need to find an outlet for these emotions. But because it’s an emotional thing they can’t think out a logical way to further their cause. So instead it’s just about expressing emotion. Which may be cathartic for the protesters but doesn’t do anything to further the cause.

          Israel is obviously not going to stop until they get the hostages back. Blocking bridges won’t change anything. It’s just unnecessarily inconveniencing people and only serves to make people think Palestinian movement is an irrational movement that doesn’t care about anything other than themselves.

          • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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            9 months ago

            I’d argue there are no “rational” protests because protests only exist when there is no path to a legal or democratic resolution available.

            You don’t protest your landlord fixing your broken heating because there’s laws saying they have to. You don’t protest the elected government, you protest when the elected government breaks the law without recourse.

  • ember@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    I don’t get it. When does it become morally acceptable to block traffic?

    Between Just Stop Oil and Stop Arming Israel, they both have equally valid points. So why is it that blocking the Golden Gate Bridge is “based” while blocking various feeder roads in Britain makes you a twat?

    Edit: messed up the titles