I understand why the “Free Palestine” protestors want attention, but why do they need to block a road to prove a point? 1) it doesn’t help to prove your point and 2) it neglects your initial cause. I believe these are chaos actors trying to disrupt “normalcy” for attention. You’re going to see this a lot in 2024. I’m with the Palestinians to call their place their own and be free, so do Israelis, but this is not it.
@tracytran You think those are chaos actors, meaning people who have been hired to pretend to be protesters, so as to sow chaos?
Who do you think they are working for?
@tracytran That looks like some person's twitter feed.
@AskTheDevil it is, but she’s in the frontlines of this seeing other feeds, here are some articles about it
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/14/2211720/-Chaos-Agents-Everywhere
@tracytran I'm sorry. I don't form opinions based on someone's twitter feed.
I would be very surprised if there's a lot of people paying people to pretend to protest in favor of Palestine.
The first two "articles" are opinion pieces.
And neither are likely about whoever got in your way in traffic.
Pieces like that are written to push an agenda, or to push your emotional buttons, and make you fear your neighbor.
@AskTheDevil also, why protest about Palestine to shut down Wall Street and close the streets when people can go on their phones to make trades? The protests in the 60s work because people dressed up and did their job and were abused by others (white people) and it was captured. These people today will block roads to yell and demand to join their cause, which is not the best way to go. Yeah, people will be emotional about it
@tracytran What I'm hearing is "it worked".
@AskTheDevil not really, they lost the argument supporting to “Free Palestine”. If they got attention, sure, it’s a win, but not for helping Palestinians.