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"Don't disrupt anything with your protest. Be small, and unseen."
"Also, don't interfere with the operation of your boss's business when striking. It's really shitty when they lose revenue, and when I don't get my doodads in a timely manner!"
Way to miss the point there buddy. Don't interfere with regular civilians is the point. Absolutely, disrupt businesses if that's the point of your protest. Look at the BLM protests as an example. They blocked out large swathes of roads so that no one would be able to enter. They didn't disturb those who were already driving.
Also, no one says the protest has to be small. Press exists for a reason.
The entire point of a protest is to disrupt and inconvenience people, including civilians. Protests have no teeth otherwise.
No, but go off
You're the one arguing that direct action should neither be direct or action.
Way to misrepresent my argument there buddy. I'm saying that it can still be direct without inconveniencing civilians going about their day, but most of you Lemmy liberals are too chaotic. Enjoy alienating potential supporters of your cause then.
I'm not a liberal. Liberal's prime justification for sticking with the status quo certainly is that they're "alienated", though. That's not the actual reason of course. The actual reason is they're fat and happy on the current system and don't want radical change. That's the benefit of creating pain points, so it's not so easy to ignore.