07-19-2022, 06:34 PM
Direction action is great and I fully support it, but what these people did is annoying. People might have an SUV for a specific reason. Maybe they have a large family/children? Maybe they run a contracting business and use their SUV as a business vehicle (like someone I know)? They'd be very disadvantaged because some clowns decided to go save the planet by deflating tires (lmao...as if that's going to do anything). It's ridiculous.
Direction action is very useful but it has to be focused in the right way. There needs to be a strategy. This just seems like it was some neckbeards from /r/fuckcars trying to act like revolutionaries. It does nothing to support their cause. Nobody who walked out in the morning to find their tires flat is going to say "ah, they're right, I will sell my vehicle and start biking" or whatever. The reaction is going to be a feeling of being upset, angry, annoyed and probably ready to kick some ass. How would all the cyclists or transit users feel if someone started deflating bike and bus tires, or putting piles of bricks and logs on MUTs? Or what if they went out and sabotaged the LRT like the Tarnac Nine did? I'm sure nobody would support that whether or not the "justification" for doing so had any merit.
Fuck cars indeed, but we need to fight them in a more sensible, intelligent and academic way and not pretending to be revolutionaries by deflating tires.
Direction action is very useful but it has to be focused in the right way. There needs to be a strategy. This just seems like it was some neckbeards from /r/fuckcars trying to act like revolutionaries. It does nothing to support their cause. Nobody who walked out in the morning to find their tires flat is going to say "ah, they're right, I will sell my vehicle and start biking" or whatever. The reaction is going to be a feeling of being upset, angry, annoyed and probably ready to kick some ass. How would all the cyclists or transit users feel if someone started deflating bike and bus tires, or putting piles of bricks and logs on MUTs? Or what if they went out and sabotaged the LRT like the Tarnac Nine did? I'm sure nobody would support that whether or not the "justification" for doing so had any merit.
Fuck cars indeed, but we need to fight them in a more sensible, intelligent and academic way and not pretending to be revolutionaries by deflating tires.