Can someone please calmly explain how blocking a freeway across an ocean and a country on a different continent, is supposed to have any effect on a political issue in the middle east?
Can someone please calmly explain how blocking a freeway across an ocean and a country on a different continent, is supposed to have any effect on a political issue in the middle east?
Whenever I read comments like this, Im reminded of conversations with non americans, who dont understand why americans are so eagerly bloodthirsty and excited to try and kill their own neighbors for the smallest inconveniences.
I bet you threaten people in the mcdonalds line for taking too long to get their wallet out of their pocket, ey?
Don’t lump me in with that guy
My reaction isn’t limited to America. The UK added similar rules to their Public Order Act last summer. Blocking roads now carries an up to 12-month prison sentence.
I don’t know how stricter jaywalking laws were necessary for stopping oil, but their protests were specifically designed to motivate the government to enact them, so they must be important. It’s good to know that the British government is willing to accede to protester demands with appropriate law, even when the government has no clue how those new laws will benefit the protester’s cause.
McDonalds doesn’t have lines anymore. Instead of a single worker taking orders one at a time, they now have 4-6 self-service kiosks online at all times. Now you have plenty of time to place and pay for your order.
Drive thru is still a clusterfuck, of course, but the people slow in getting out their wallets at the drive thru are still waiting in line after they pay, so their delay in payment isn’t really affecting me.
It’ll be the worker threatening them, not me.