• Alteon@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

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

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      5 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.

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        5 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.

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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.

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

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        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

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

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

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        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.

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

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            Most likely pig. It’s liquid and gets pumped up in trucks like this.

            If this in a region with pig farms they probably have plenty to share.

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              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.