The comments make my soul die a little
user
Westerners act like being late for work is the worst thing that can happen to someone. 

"Get out of the road, I really want to get to my depressing job where everyone treats me like shit!"

Coming across a protest like this is an automatic excuse to be an hour late to work. 

People don't understand that protests are supposed to be disruptive.

Edit: Also, fuck that fat guy. I hope terrible things happen to him.
assistant
lol this comment majorly triggered the lib hive. Be sure to report any death threats you’re about to get dmed.

*How dare these protesters disturb a workday at burger corp USA!!*
user
calling everyone who disagrees with you a lib is completely pointless, annoying, and shuts down any conversation and reflection that could occur in threads like these. we’re all leftists here, and having different ideas on how to take action and protest does not detract from that at all.

all you’re doing by saying this is diluting what it actually means to be a lib and further isolates leftism away from people who are open to its ideas.

plus, this form of protest literally, objectively, does not work. all it does is annoy people and spamming cHeCkMaTe LiBeRaLs like a bunch of dumb children is not going to help.

P.S. I could go on about how protest groups such as Just Stop Oil are oftentimes more harmful than not in their current form. I can speak from direct, personal experience when I say that the Just Stop Oil group in London is actually just a cult who think that the more times you get arrested = the better your protest and have a worrying propensity towards drug abuse among its members (which, by the way, is so amazingly ironic that I'm forced to laugh or else I'll cry whenever I see them, given how those types of drugs are manufactured).
assistant
Imagine calling yourself a leftist and writing this drivel, insanity. If you have a problem with disruptive protests then idk how you think progress will happen. Look at history, change doesn't just happen while keeping the status quo, there needs to be disruption. Literally with all progress there has first been a disruption. If supposed "leftist" politicians won't do anything, then it's up to the people to raise the issue and make it something that has to be dealt with.
user
A disruptive protest is so effective because it spreads a message forcefully to a wide number of people. What message is being spread in this video here? There's no flags, no posters, no speeches, no organisation, just a bunch of people sitting in the road. If you came across this protest for the first time you would literally have no idea what these idiots are doing, which doesn't exactly guarantee a lot of support for your organisation.

Lovely assumption to make that I don't support disruptive protests which is wrong so let's just ignore that shall we
assistant