Another image - protestors chaining themselves to their vehicles.
Goddam that's not safe
Hundreds of Protesters and Supporters Clash Outside Trump Utah Rally
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Goddam that's not safe
gutter_trash
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I'm not being pragmatic, I'm being strategic.
Trump must be allowed to destroy the Republican Party
That party created this climate, he is the lightning rod that has gone out of control.
The US needs a new political party and seeing hims wreck that shit is so awesome for those of us rooting for Democrats
This is not a thing that happens.
Haha. That would be kinda badass. He would definitely spend 15 minutes bragging about it at the rally.
cpp_is_king
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http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/12/19/exclusive-man-died-after-berkeley-protests-delayed-help/
Berkeley, not Oakland. Even if it were a hypothetical, it's not one you can just brush under the rug when lives are on the line. You cannot block emergency services, ever, even if it turns out after the fact they were not needed
who's being silenced? trump gets more free airtime every day
this is about showing opposition to revolting ideals and galvanizing the left
Bam Bam Baklava
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This only helps him in the primary though. Every Republican that is unsure about Trump will see this and have the inherent instinct to take his side against leftist activists.
Trump supporters abandoning their cars, walking 2 miles to Trump's event -
They'll be able to tell their grand kids about that time that they abandoned their cars to walk 5 miles through the blistering desert heat to support a racist.
Personally I think it was never a good idea to ignore Trump or even laugh him off one the racist ball of shit that he is got rolling. Now especially I think trying to ignore him or push him out of the mine light is long since passed being reasonable.
Even if the general public, media, etc. Ignored him outright at this point his base is too energized, angry and dumb to stop. These people who support him long since stopped listening to those who disagree with them out those outside their bigoted bubbles.
Protests like this aren't needed to raise awareness of the horrible rhetoric Trump espouses, everyone who is anyone is aware of that already. These protests are to show that everyday American's aren't going to oddly stand by while Hitler 2.0 tries to rise to power.
DontBeThatGuy
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If anyone has a taste for the hypothetic, go check out that BLM protest on the Bay Bridge thread. It's something else.
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Meanwhile in Brazil
By the way, look at this picture:
See the dots? Hospitals. See the red line? That line is the avenue that you're seeing in the picture you posted. Translating what the blue dot means: hospitals that agreed with the avenue being blocked (not on this protest, to be honest, but during sundays. However most of the protests are being announced here days earlier). The yellow dots are hospitals that did not answer the question. 6 out of 9 agreed.
I agree that not every place in the world has a way around protests (like that picture someone posted in this thread, the one in the desert). I'm just putting the information that I have here so people could know.
If my information is wrong I'm sorry, I tried.
Hip Hop
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cpp_is_king
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Sorry, you lose on this one. Because it did happen. And why wouldn't it? You think just because a protest is going on people stop having medical emergencies? I
BinaryPork2737
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This protest isn't blocking emergency services. There are alternate routes to any emergency services in the general area. From what I've seen, there are no emergency services in the immediate vicinity of where the protests are taking place.
New York City
Is it bad that I can't tell that protest crown from an ordinary crowd in NYC?
gutter_trash
Banned
good,
I don't want a Romney nominee, I don't want a Ryan nominee
I want Trump as nominee and cause the GOP to lose the House, lose the Senate and have our Queen become President with a majority in the House
SlimySnake
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Semantics. These people cant get to their venue. Once they are in the venue the protesters continue interrupting Trump.
So by that logic i guess these guys werent being silenced??
It doesn't matter how you silence them, stunts like chaining one's self to their car and shutting down highways isnt the same as cops assualting the public, but it serves the same purpose.
As liberals, we have fought for these rights. We cannot pick and choose.
I'm really not interested in arguing a hypothetical then. If these protesters indeed block an emergency vehicle responding to an emergency, then you might have had a point, but that isn't happening.
No, not really. It looks like normal crowd level in NYC to me too.
Got anymore? Or are you gonna weigh one example from two years ago against millions of lives being affected by a republican presidency? Because this isn't really a thing that happens.
Palette Swap
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The usual "I'm not saying they shouldn't protest but" is pretty embarrassing.
If people pulled their heads out of their asses, they would realize these protests aren't there to help these wholesome, mild-mannered, people on the fence feel good about themselves. These protests are to point out that Trump's incredibly poisonous rhetoric that's been applauded by an alarming number of people, and the violence of these words and acts absolutely dwarfs the inconvenience of a fucking roadblock. Get a fucking grip.
As for "yeah, but the other GOP guys", well yeah the others are vile scum too, but they have the decency to dance around their inhumanity. Meanwhile, Trump puts it front and center and has been reclaiming hate speech, this is regression. If anything, it's nice to see people won't let it slide.
If people pulled their heads out of their asses, they would realize these protests aren't there to help these wholesome, mild-mannered, people on the fence feel good about themselves. These protests are to point out that Trump's incredibly poisonous rhetoric that's been applauded by an alarming number of people, and the violence of these words and acts absolutely dwarfs the inconvenience of a fucking roadblock. Get a fucking grip.
As for "yeah, but the other GOP guys", well yeah the others are vile scum too, but they have the decency to dance around their inhumanity. Meanwhile, Trump puts it front and center and has been reclaiming hate speech, this is regression. If anything, it's nice to see people won't let it slide.
BinaryPork2737
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Semantics. These people cant get to their venue. Once they are in the venue the protesters continue interrupting Trump.
So by that logic i guess these guys werent being silenced??
It doesn't matter how you silence them, stunts like chaining one's self to their car and shutting down highways isnt the same as cops assualting the public, but it serves the same purpose.
As liberals, we have fought for these rights. We cannot pick and choose.
There is a difference between spraying someone with highly pressurized water, beating people, and using violence in general and blocking traffic. These protesters are not physically assaulting people they disagree with.
Not at all. These people aren't preaching hate speech and encouraging violence.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Wouldn't this only be something that you would know after it happened? It's not as though emergencies run on a predictable schedule.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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"King summarized the philosophy of the Birmingham campaign when he said: "The purpose of ... direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation"."
King didn't just protest everyday as some sort of crowd-building exercise. He built community outside of it, just like BLM, the Black Panthers, and the people who came to this Trump rally. How else do you think they got all these people to know this was happening? Then they did their crisis-packed direct action, exactly as MLK did.
The goals are never to win people over. The people who could be won over are already there.
EdibleKnife
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How?
Big Baybee
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Explain?
What
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Yeah, I don't really get the argument that the protests AREN'T blocking emergency vehicles, descriptively, so it's fine. I'm more understanding of people who say, "Tough shit, this is more important", even though I disagree, because that's at least coherent.
Care to explain?
Tesseract
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Yah, that's where i'm at with these
Just be honest, you can't make pot brownies without breaking a few eggs
Its like that NDT tweet again.
The rally site? Yeah, I think so.
Scientist Supreme!
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That is not even close to being the same and its fucking disgusting that you think it is.
Nah
teruterubozu
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That's a huge rally. Not surprising for Arizona I guess. Doesn't look like the protestor blockades are doing much.
What did he mean by this?
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Wow what the fuck you cant just throw all the tea in the river like that! Thats someones livelihood! What if a pregnant woman needed that tea or it was going to be used to nurse an injured man back to health?
What the fuck, honestly, Im being honest here dont all gang on my honesty for real, I honestly didnt care either way honestly but shit like this makes me suddenly in support of the British oppressors for the first time right now at this very moment and never before ever honestly.
What the fuck, honestly, Im being honest here dont all gang on my honesty for real, I honestly didnt care either way honestly but shit like this makes me suddenly in support of the British oppressors for the first time right now at this very moment and never before ever honestly.
Angelus Errare
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You know you're on the wrong side of American history when:
White
Black
Asian
Hispanic
Middle Eastern
LGBT
Are all together protesting your shit.
White
Black
Asian
Hispanic
Middle Eastern
LGBT
Are all together protesting your shit.
ArchedThunder
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Uniter of bigots.
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