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The difference between a traffic jam and protestors blocking traffic is intent.
I take it none of you passed high school civics?
If you know there's going to be a traffic jam at 5PM on the I-Fuckit, aggravated by your presence, is that not intent or, at the very least, gross negligence?
Is that the drivers' fault, or the highway engineers' fault? Why isn't the highway designed to handle anticipated traffic?
Because as numerous studies have proven, there is no road design for individual cars that alleviates traffic. Period. The design doesn’t exist. Actually addressing traffic would involve severely reducing car lanes and vastly expanding public transit.
Now, if you want to propose going after the car and oil companies that pushed car-centric development starting in the early 20th century and continued despite knowing climate change was real and that car centric development was a major contributor, I’m sure everyone in this group will agree with you.
At some point you have to take responsibility for your own actions.
At this point it's clear you're just trolling.
Sure. Whatever.
The guy who thinks being delayed by a protest is tantamount to kidnapping and murdering is casting aspersions on other's education.