One off? Probably. You have several hundred people doing this? Not likely. The first-hand optics would shake even the police. They can shoot a person. They can't open fire on people. Not in the US. Not yet, at least.
Every time I try to look this up a get a variety of different answers. It seems like a lot of different protests using similar means.
The two most common that seem to pop up are:
Environmental protection laws. Farmers want to continue to burn fossil fuels, using pesticides, and dumping artificial fertilizers into the ground.
Economic protection from foreigners. I found at least one case where a McDonald's was the target because they allegedly were serving foreign-sourced beef
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Alteon@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 2y
US citizens. I hope your taking notes. This is how you protest. We may need these sorts of strategies in a year.
cdf12345@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 2y
While I agree with you, there is probably about a 100 x chance of being shot in the US when protesting like this.
Alteon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
One off? Probably. You have several hundred people doing this? Not likely. The first-hand optics would shake even the police. They can shoot a person. They can't open fire on people. Not in the US. Not yet, at least.
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social · 16 pts · 2y
Yes they can, and they have opened fire on groups of people for less.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Rittenhouse took a field trip across state lines to do just that
MadBob@feddit.nl · 14 pts · 2y
I wouldn't protest like this. Some poor sod on minimum wage'll have to clean it up, not an elite politician.
aluminium@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
Agree, they should do this in the backyard of some politicans mansion
ryathal@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 2y
Americans protest with killdozers.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 9 pts · 2y
THE DILLDOZER!
BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 2y
US citizens protest like the French all the time and get called thugs for it. The French love riots and fighting the police.
db2@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
That and another French revolution tool.
jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev · 2 pts · 2y
What are they protesting? Is the protest from a couple months ago for their retirement still ongoing?
paultimate14@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Every time I try to look this up a get a variety of different answers. It seems like a lot of different protests using similar means.
The two most common that seem to pop up are:
Environmental protection laws. Farmers want to continue to burn fossil fuels, using pesticides, and dumping artificial fertilizers into the ground.
Economic protection from foreigners. I found at least one case where a McDonald's was the target because they allegedly were serving foreign-sourced beef
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 2y
I love the French ... they are the originators of modern protest and centuries later, they're still the leaders in this respect.
ForestOrca@kbin.social · 8 pts · 2y
What exactly am I seeing here? Tires, hay, and they are wetting it down with some slurry? In front of some fancy building?
HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y
Not certain here, but the truck appears to be a pump truck that drains residential sewage tanks.
If that’s the case, then they’re likely hosing everything down with poo.
Ramenator@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
That's not residential sewage, that's manure. Animal excrements often aged to concentrate it
pyrflie@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y
HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
Y’all’s pig shit gets fancy trucks? We just loaded up a spreader, attached it to the tractor, & dumped our pig shit in it.
Saved the fancy trucks for the fancy poo.
SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
Nfamwap@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
TIL tyres are a vegetable. I assumed they were a fruit.
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y
literally shitpost