“The weapons [neocolonialism] is deploying to surveil, maim and mass murder Palestinians are supplied by the company that operates right here in our city. Elbit Systems, [neocolonialism’s] largest weapons dealer … supplies 85% of [its] drone fleet, along with land-based equipment, bullets, tear gas and internationally banned weapons [cluster and white phosphorus bombs]. Elbit weapons are being used to murder Palestinians right now. We will not let Elbit continue business as usual! . . .
“We will continue to take action to make it impossible for Elbit to operate in Cambridge until Elbit is gone. Shut Elbit Down!” (#ShutElbitDown on X)
I can support picketing, and direct action against a specific target, but as soon as you blockade general traffic you’re on the wrong side of whatever issue you’re concerned about.
I can support freedom of speech, but as soon as you start talking I want you to shut the fuck up.
shut up lib.
“I support picketing, so long as I can easily ignore it.”
Yes, exactly, and unironically.
You’re attacking a company you disagree with. Then you shift your hostile attention to me, my friends, my family, my neighbors.
Why the fuck do you think I would support you after you lump me in with your enemies?
You are much better off with me ignoring you than you are with the kind of attention you’re going to get after you decide to target me.
How very… “first-world problem” of you. Do you read what you say before you post it? This is selfish and myopic as shit.
They are inconveniencing you. They are halting the manufacture of weapons being used to annihilate civilians. These two issues do not equate in the goddamn slightest.
Everybody, back off. We need to abandon our opposition to colonialism and genocide because internet tough guy doesn’t want to get stuck in traffic.
It takes more than a couple people chaining themselves to a building to actually enact change. It takes pressure from the general public as a whole. If the public ignore all the protests, then there is no pressure, and thus no change.
Protesting isn’t supposed to be some nice thing. It’s people getting desperate because change needs to happen, because they have no other peaceful option other than to make noise and make a nuisance. If you don’t like the nuisance, then your best option is to push for the change they’re chasing - particularly if you generally agree with their cause.
Protesting is literally what gave you all the rights you enjoy today, sat in your cosy chair chatting away on the internet.
Do you really want people like me involved?
Think really hard about that before you answer.
Since you wrote here that you want the whole region to be nuked I think we’ll pass on your involvement.
It is good if you are inconvenienced by a protest like this regardless. Causing inconvenience to as many people as possible is the point; your personal feelings are completely irrelevant and nobody here cares.
At this point, I kind of believe you’re the type of person to catch twenty years running over a protestor; so maybe you’re on the wrong board.
they’re the type of person to be a 12 year old edgelord who masturbates to videos on youtube of protestors getting owned
wow what an internet bad ass. Touch grass you snivelling parasite.