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Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found
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Anyone who blocks roads to protest is just fucking with the little people. Go block billionaires driveways or their offices, don’t bother and piss off other regular people you want on your side
Many methods of protest should make normal people angry. That's the entire point. Protests exist to be disruptive.
Block a billionaire's driveway, and they fly to a private luxury penthouse and don't have to deal with you ever again.
Block major roads, and everybody realizes that the only way they're going to get to work on time in a consistent manner going forward is by actually satisfying your movement's demands, voting against oil company supporting politicians, demanding they stop subsidizing fossil fuels, etc.
Making one billionaire's life marginally harder won't convince them to change anything. Making thousands or even millions of people's lives harder on a regular basis until they collectively force the billionaires to stop will most certainly change something.
This argument is like if you demanded that during the Civil Rights Movement protests, nobody ever did sit-ins at restaurants because it would annoy the patrons, but wasn't going directly after the politicians involved. In actuality, that was a key driver of furthering the movement, because not only did it make it difficult to maintain white-only infrastructure without annoyance, thus causing some business owners to rescind their policies since it was more trouble than it's worth, but it also gave people who were more on the fence a prescient reason to stop being segregationist.
In this analogy, the restaurants are the roads, the patrons are the people driving in their cars, and the business owner is the government managing the roads.
Once it becomes more difficult to maintain the current status quo, instead of having functional roads by caving to public pressure and ending subsidies, stopping new fossil fuel development, and migrating to cleaner alternatives, then those exact changes will get implemented.