Burning Man climate protestors shut down only road to festival.

...and now they're in a shelter in place because of *checks notes unexpected rain, unusual climate change related weather.

One of the least climate friendly events out there but they go thinking they're pro nature and pro earth
Man the entitlement from the burners in this video is embarrassing AF.
It’s almost like the hippies had a fucking point
- The hippies became boomers
Mud wizard strikes again!
- Earthbenders stay winning.
- Damn, y’all pollute everything with your large lame meaningless emotes. Maybe your favorite podcast can do a twitch steam, and you guys can do that over there.

attack the big corporations instead

That's the problem though. How do you even do that?

Like this
On December 10th, at around 6 p.m., 200 environmental activists suddenly stormed and “invaded” a Lafarge company cement factory of La Malle in Bouc-Bel-Air in the Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in Southern France. Infrastructure at the plant was reportedly attacked using a variety of methods, including: sabotage of incinerators and electrical systems and devices; cable cutting; bags of cement cut open and spilled; damage to vehicles and construction equipment; damaged windows; and graffiti spraying.
- Yep, don't remember who it was that I heard say something along the line of "If climate activists were really convinced they want to end the system that they can't deny is profitable to them, car dealerships wouldn't be able to have SUVs on their lot as they would be set on fire during the night, airports would get vandalized, gas stations blown up..."
- Does this actually do anything though? Insurance will just pay out and they'll maybe have slightly higher rates.
- Now this is what I LOVE to see. Take a note, road blockers.
- Idiotic.
  All that shit is insured
  The people doing this, if they get caught get massive fines and jail.
  Nothing changes
  France has a democratic system. You want to make actual change, get involved in politics.
  This highschool vandalism bullshit accomplishes nothing, except make environmentalist look like lunatics.
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Build an even bigger corporation?
With violence. How else do you ‘attack’ something. This is the US, I’m sure you can imagine how one would do this.
You stop buy their products
- Individual action within the rules of capitalism will never be enough to actually get stuff done. @punkisundead@slrpnk.net has the right idea here. If you want to actually hinder the corporations, you need to make it impossible to stay in business, no matter how they influence the government and rig the system in their favor.
Their headquarters aren't hard to find

All those SUVs and people cant drive off road... Also quite telling what kind of people are going to burning men in what kind of cars, in regards to its supposed spirit and culture...

I watched with no audio, but was there something that made it appropriate for the ranger to pull a gun on those protesters?

I don't know that blocking a road like an asshat merits deadly force.

This is the US. you can be shot for eating a burger in a car park
- I'm well aware. Just surprised no one else mentioned it, figured I missed something.

Holy shit those YouTube comments are disgusting. Fuck these burner fucks and their $100k glamping vans.

Real, "Are we the baddies?", moment.

Protest is a-ok as long as the protest's convenient and far away.
The problem is that then the people are never heard. I used to think this way too but they have a point, if they aren't literally in your face, you're going to walk right past them. We've all seen people on the sidewalk handing out flyers trying to get the word out - how many of us stop to read it? <10%? <1%?
- You don’t need to take and read their flyer to get the message… I can agree with their message, and still be pissed off that they’re causing a disruption in my day. These kinds of people only hurt the cause.
If you're not actively involved in a movement, your thoughts on the effectiveness of the actions of people in the movement are wholly irrelevant.
- If you're not actively involved in a movement your thoughts on the effectiveness of it are relevant because you're one of the people it is trying to affect.