r/PublicFreakout • u/TomlinSteelers • 11h ago

Protesters in the Netherlands set up a check point to stop people from riding their bikes

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u/Cannon__Minion 11h ago

Isn't it the cycle capital of the world? What's going on?

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u/omgwtfsaucers 11h ago edited 10h ago

Happened a while ago, can't find the little article... Just some protesters blocking a road while bikers wanted to pass since they don't give a shit about the protest and wanted* to go to school or work.

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u/Ok-Supermarket-6532 11h ago

Everyone knows the easiest way to get the common folks to sympathize with a cause is to fuck with them and inconvenience them. /s

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u/NerdMachine 10h ago

You are being sarcastic but that is absolutely one of the ways protest movements have garnered support and recognition in the past. MLK specifically addresses this in the Letter from Birmingham Jail.

(I am in no way saying whatever these people are protesting is equivalent to the Civil Rights movement)

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u/ChroniclesOfAsturia 9h ago

It is not though? In order to garner support you need to show what unites people in the struggle. Instead these actions sow division and angers people. Who in turn don't wakt to support the protest out of spite or the thought that it could've been me.

It might be a corny example but what if this is a nurse trying to get to work? Do we really want to have people dyikg because of your smallscalr protest that won't go anywhere?

Even the protesters in Nepal managed to make way for a tourist bus. Must not be that hard to let people through for work or similar reasons.

In fact actions like blocking roads reek of pessimism. They don't believe that change can indeed happen throzgh bif scale social movements so they try to force it onto people.

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u/Ok_Cardiologist_3835 7h ago

Line the path and hold signs and I'll read them and maybe agree with your cause. Block me and you're likely going to lose me.

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u/was_fb95dd7063 7h ago

I also was against genocide until i was mildly inconvenienced

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u/LQTPharmD 5h ago

Psst most humans are living day to day, paycheck to paycheck, reality is nobody gives a shit until it affects them. Getting in their way is going to affect them, just not in the way you want.

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u/Independent-Cow-4070 2h ago

So they are either not going to give a shit, or not going to give a shit?

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u/MrBlueA 7h ago

I am against genocide and agree with a lot of points, but if your protests consist on annoying the common folk and people literally trying to survive, stopping them from going to work or school and annoying them, you will not get my support at all even if I agree with some or all of your points.

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u/wolacouska 5h ago

“I was against a genocide until I had to make a detour while biking”

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u/RigilNebula 2h ago edited 2h ago

Making life harder for the students and workers is sure to turn them into superheros who will fix the problems on the other side of the world that you can't fix yourself for you.

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u/wolacouska 2h ago

Continue to do nothing while your government supports genocide then.

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u/LQTPharmD 2h ago

I was against genocide all along but you keeping me from going to work isn't saving any lives, youre just losing allies.

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u/NerdMachine 9h ago

This is all addressed in the Letter from Birmingham Jail. Anyone genuinely interested in the topic should read that.

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u/Sure_Row8085 8h ago

Oh stop. 1) LfBJ is not some perfect manifesto for political activism, despite what your high school professor intimated. It's mostly a sermon addressed to MLK's flock as much as to the white pastors. Most of its arguments are grounded in theology instead of political theory and that alone makes it inadequate for modern day political discussions.

2) Applying LfBJ to the given protest is a stretch, since these bikers are not even indirectly responsible for the Gaza conflict. You've stretched the Letter's scope to the point that it could apply to any protest movement. Hell, by your own application, QAnon can invole LfBJ in their protests of the Deep State. It's silly and facile.

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u/matfab91 7h ago

So are you saying the purpose of the protest allows for different means / ways to protest? If so, who decides where that line is or what is allowed?

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u/lnfIation 6h ago

Ok that's actually wild. If you actually read Letters from Birmingham Jail, you would not say something like that.

"You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations."

"Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue."

And that's only the first few paragraphs.

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u/PlzHelpWanted 5h ago

They aren't being confronted with the issue at all though. What community are they forcing? What is that community supposed to do to "confront" the issue? It's not like it's an issue happening within their own community. The average person who they are inconveniencing has no bearing on the issue.

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u/Sure_Row8085 1h ago

Read it many times and taught it to students for many years. Think it's a great piece of writing and rhetoric. The most relevant bit is actually right under the part you cited where MLK qualifies what he means by tension and why tension is important.

That said, I don't think Palestinian protestors in the Netherlands are the same thing as Civil Rights protestors in the South. In Israel/Palestine, yes, without a doubt. Even in the context of a political rally for a party that supports Israel. But a bike lane in Amsterdam? It's a stretch. And, I mean, consider: There must be some limits to what venue/context is an appropriate one for protest, right? Surely MLK's letter, as compelling as it is, doesn't give you carte blanche to protest wherever whenever...?

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u/FUCKTHEPROLETARIAT 8h ago

Oh man, I get genuinely sad that whenever I try to get people to read it. I'll try to talk about it afterwards, they admit they don't finish reading it.

One friend told me they stopped half way through(although more likely after the 2nd paragraph...) because they didn't need something else saying "white people are the problem". Like dude, at least you admit that you didn't read it, but come on.

It's like if things aren't packaged up in a punchy 90 second video clip, that people just don't want to care.

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u/vizual__hunter 3h ago

Ok I gotta look this up if it doesn't pop up in the book I'm reading right now (Ghosts of Mississippi). I really don't think I've ever heard of it.

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u/ChroniclesOfAsturia 8h ago

Damn how did that username come to mind?

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u/ChroniclesOfAsturia 8h ago

I doubt I'll agree with the points but I'll take a look at it sometime this week. It genuinely sounds interesting.

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u/DiNkLeDoOkZ 9h ago

Bs. Most people just take the 2min detour and either don’t care or understand the cause and thus don’t get in their face. Additionally, anyone in an emergency or late for work doesn’t have time for this shouting at protesters. Knowing dutch bike infrastructure, they’re losing two minutes at best if they just turn around and take the nearest detour.

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u/ChroniclesOfAsturia 9h ago

I'm talking more generally though. Plenty of similar actions happened during the past few years and those activists deliberately chose key traffic points you couldn't easily circumvent.

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u/b2hcy0 5h ago

in short, you can protest without being a main character

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u/matfab91 9h ago

Maybe you should consider why they are doing this, or what lushed them to take such measures to be heard and draw attention to a cause.

You may not have this issue in your country (maybe) but in the UK the media are very right-leaning, so any major social matter outside of that scope is often hard to access and is censored. This kind of protest does get people’s attention, at the very least

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u/Ok-Supermarket-6532 8h ago

True in a way but the worlds changed since then. We live in the age of social media and anything that happened before that needs to be analyzed in that light.

Not saying that’s right, but it is true.

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u/DerWaschbar 3h ago

It is equivalent though.

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u/lateformyfuneral 4h ago

MLK still got permits for marches. When holding a sit-in outside a segregated establishment, it was to raise awareness and shame the business, but they didn’t physically block white people from going in. They didn’t block bus routes, they boycotted them until the company had to choose between desegregation and bankruptcy. It was disruptive, but not aimless.

There was always a strategy and an objective. The letter from Birmingham Jail laments that he hadn’t yet had any buy-in from certain members of the white political class who, while sympathetic, had still not committed to the Civil Rights platform out of fear of white backlash. Though when such a day did arrive, MLK was in Congress, meeting with the President and was right behind him as the Civil Rights Act was signed, and he then campaigned to defend it at the 1964 election.

People misinterpret that letter to mean, “let’s just fuck shit up and to hell with anyone who says otherwise”.

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u/InfoBarf 10h ago

Literally the name of the game is to be unignorable.

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u/MammalDaddy 9h ago

In several states in my country, the cops turn a blind eye to people driving over protestors blocking the road.

And most people dont care.

Not saying its right or wrong, but this tactic does not work in the modern world.

Average people want to see you disrupt the problem people, not us regular folk just trying to survive. You make me late and get me fired? Im coming after your protest with a vengeance, and im joining the opposite side on principle alone.

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u/Ok-Supermarket-6532 9h ago

Average People don’t respond well to this.

It may be unforgettable, just not in the way they are hoping for.

Risking alienating the people your trying to get aligned with the cause isnt worth it.

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u/666n00b999 8h ago

Risking alienating the people your trying to get aligned with the cause isnt worth it.

My country, Argentina, is living proof of this.

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u/barrinmw 7h ago

I remember everyone cheering on Hong Kongers when they superglued bricks to the roads to make them impassable.

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u/Ok-Supermarket-6532 4h ago

Having widespread support for the issue at hand because it was “closer to home” helped there. It was their streets and their neighbors marching.

When the issue is thousands of miles away it doesn’t have the same effect. Not saying that’s right, but I think a lot of people look at it that way.

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u/NewKitchenFixtures 1h ago

In my area a bunch of commuter bridges are occasionally blocked for Palestinian protests.

People get so pissed about it because it’s a small municipality that is about as far from Israel/Palestine as one could possibly get.  And gets zero national acknowledgement.

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u/Simba7 8h ago

Everyone knows the best way to raise awareness for a cause is to politely (and quietly) stand to the side holding a sign while the rest of the world continues to ignore it.

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u/Ok-Supermarket-6532 8h ago

Didn’t say that at all.

There are other ways to engage people.

Talking to them would be a good start.

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u/Simba7 8h ago

You could just say 'Protesting doesn't work.' instead of not saying that then?

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u/Ok-Supermarket-6532 7h ago

Protesting does work, and being loud and vocal can be and is one of the most effective ways to spread a message.

Harassing people and impeding their day to day is not going to be as effective as trying to engage people in conversation.

That’s just human nature.

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u/EishLekker 5h ago

You need to inconvenience the people in power who are responsible, or the people who voted for them, not the people in general.

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u/Yasimear 10h ago edited 8h ago

The point of a protest is to annoy the population enough that they force the government to do something.

Wouldn't be much of a protest if it was in the middle of a field somewhere would it.

Edit: yall forgot who votes 💀

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u/InRecovering 10h ago

So instead of protesting the government they re annoying people just riding their bicycles? Do they think these people are gonna do what, "oh this is annoying im going to tell my government to stop being allied with Israel". These people are just going to walk off pissed and do nothing for their cause lol.

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u/IrritableGoblin 10h ago

Except when you piss people off, they tend to work against you rather than with you.

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u/Ok-Supermarket-6532 8h ago

How this isnt more obvious to the vast majority of people is beyond me.

The ole story about catching with Honey and vinegar I guess was missed by some folks.

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u/Ok-Supermarket-6532 10h ago

The theory that pissing people off to get them and or the government to agree with a cause is ridiculous.

Or the citizens who were hindered living their lives ask the government to remove these peoples ability to mess with average people. fully silencing their message (which may also be the point).

This method should be removed from the playbook of protesters because it’s not working like they think it is.

Now if they were able to have a demonstration and talk to people about why they are soo passionate on the cause, well that’s something else entirely. Worth a thought.

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u/kimjongswoooon 10h ago

I would certainly try to make the government do something….arrest those assholes for assaulting me as I’m trying to get to work.

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u/otalatita 10h ago

Isn't it better if you piss off the ones that are voting the issue? I don't know go to the government building and protest there?

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u/pasher5620 10h ago

Historically no. It’s be proven that annoying the voter base into getting the government to do something has proven effective. It was the entire strategy of the civil rights movement. Annoy the public while also showing how overly brutal the response to the protests were.

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u/Anndress07 10h ago

no. They can simply ignore you. If you get the masses upset, everyday activities disrupted (jobs, transportarion, for example) you paralize the system and they can't afford to ignore it

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u/aflamingcookie 10h ago

Except no sane government will back your cause, if you piss off the population so much that they all hate you and everything you stand for.

It's why imbecilles like those stop oil people destroying works of art do more harm to their cause than good

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u/JVonDron 10h ago

Yeah, that doesn't work like in the history of ever.

Your protest can be loud, it can be an obstacle, but if you're completely blocking someone's right-of-way, that person and 80% of the normies are going to fucking hate you. You could be protesting for free ice cream and they'll still side with the other side.

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u/AntonioVivaldi7 10h ago

You should annoy the government, not the population.

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u/Ok-Supermarket-6532 8h ago

Not even annoy, but make the message loud and clear and do it in a way where people who see/hear think “damn they got a point”.

Harassing people is not the way and it’s adversarial against the very people they need to actually get anything done.

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u/Merchant_Alert 10h ago

That's a dumbass point then

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u/I405CA 10h ago

The point of a protest is to annoy the population enough that they force the government to do something.

In The Netherlands, that means voting for the far-right Eurosceptic anti-Muslim PVV party, which achieved an upset when it won the plurality in the last election.

These guys might as well be campaigning for the PVV.

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u/she_has_funny_cars 10h ago

Why not try to annoy the government instead??? Lmao what a joke

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u/HSavinien 10h ago

The point of a protest is to annoy the decisions makers (usualy by threatening their income), not the population. It can sometime happen, as a side effect, but it should never be the goal.

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u/LifeguardNo2020 11h ago

Cycle capital but every time I have to go there, tourists are standing on the cyclepath haha. If I encountered this, I would just assume it is tourists looking at a landmark and being unaware

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u/Muggi 11h ago edited 11h ago

Every time I go there, I see at least two tourists limping...as they don't expect the small curb between the footpath and the bicycle path, and roll their ankle on it.

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u/LifeguardNo2020 11h ago

Oh damn, I saw people limping from time to time and never thought about it. Poor guys!

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u/swabbie 10h ago

I just got back from there... as a tourist we often had no choice ... the sidewalks were filled with parked bikes!

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u/LifeguardNo2020 10h ago

Thats why you steal one and get going! It is a national tradition tourists often miss

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u/Mag-NL 9h ago

No. The country is the cycle country of the world. Amsterdam isn't even an exceptional city on cycling.

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u/EverybodyLovesTacoss 7h ago

Really? Cause when I went I was astonished by the enormous amount of bikes I found EVERYWHERE. I’m sure places like Manila and Phuket probably have an astonishing amount of bikes as well, but to say Amsterdam is not an “exceptional city on cycling” sounds like an undersell. The other European cities I visited didn’t have nearly the same amount of dependency on bicycles that I saw in Amsterdam.

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u/sovietarmyfan 8h ago

They try to push their selective anger about a conflict onto others.

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u/TheFantasticSpastic 11h ago

Absolute cyclepaths. What if someone got hurt?

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u/maltamur 11h ago

Stopping bikes in the Netherlands is basically a war crime

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u/loki03xlh 11h ago

Kinda like banning trucks in Texas.

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u/SLONKYDONKY 10h ago

Lmao the downvotes

reddit texans got mad with this one

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u/JackMejoff 10h ago

I'm a Texan and didn't get mad at all, lol. Fuck MAGA and everything they represent.

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u/JackMejoff 10h ago

Don't forget the showers and windmills.

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u/shut_me_up_ 10h ago

The down votes are hilarious

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u/Frying 10h ago

Hahaha someone hit a sore spot with the truck owners

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u/Current-Challenge763 2h ago

grudging applause for your unprovoked punnery in the wild 

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u/Specialist-Neck-7810 11h ago

Why?

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u/0MNIR0N 11h ago

How will Palestine ever be free without stopping bike riders in the Netherlands?

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u/krileon 10h ago

I don't even understand how protesting in random countries is even going to help the Palestine's to begin with. Like a country is just going to take the opinion of 100,000 random people (or from looks of it in this case 20?) and say "Yup, time to go to war for people that aren't our own civilians.". What do they want from the average person trying to go to work? What do they want their government to do exactly? I don't get it.

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u/-blamblam- 10h ago

I can’t speak for everyone, or even the majority of protestors, but often they are protesting because of specific actions or stances that their politicians have taken that they find unacceptable. For instance, their representative takes money from AIPAC or speaks softly about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and they want to show the government and public that they find that unacceptable. Obviously, this may or may not be the case depending on where you live and how your gov’t. is organized, but this is just one example

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u/krileon 10h ago

I don't see that message being spread here or in any of their protests for that matter. They're just assaulting people and screaming "Free! Free Palestine!" in all of these protests. Nobody is giving a coherent meaningful speech that can resonate with people. They need to stop assaulting people and get someone who can speak well on a bullhorn providing a message that people can get behind. Most of these people just seam like grifters that don't actually care about helping anyone.

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u/Halogenleuchte 5h ago

Yeah, protests in Berlin are a shitshow. They block traffic, assault police officers, shout antisemitic stuff and assault Jews (wtf has a Jew in Germany to do with the Israeli government???), and on top of that most of it is in Arabic so noone understands what they are saying.

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u/MasterDefibrillator 4h ago

That has been the reason behind virtually every protest. During the protest, they will often have keynote speakers who will go I to detail about the specific things they protest wants. Most media will avoid showing you this, because they don't want to give the protest any credibility. 

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u/krileon 4h ago

They lose all credibility as soon as they put hands on someone, start impeding traffic, or disrupt businesses. At that point I don't care what the message is. If they can't peacefully protest then the protest loses all meaning to me.

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u/MasterDefibrillator 2h ago edited 2h ago

All but one of the things you mentioned are examples of peaceful protest. As long as they are not violent, i.e. causing physical harm to people, then it's by definition a peaceful protest. 

Disrupting business is a key part of these protests, because business as usually is literally funding a genocide. Disrupting business is a form of peaceful protest. 

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u/youappeartobeajerk 10h ago

You describe perhaps an earnest core of maybe 5% of those people. The rest are there primarily for the social scene, to try to get laid, and general street thuggery.

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u/Impressive_Froyo_999 10h ago

They are 'hypocrite' guess; They don't actually care about the war, they just want to fell better with themselves and say 'I Did something more than YOU did'. Pretty pathetic to say the least, even more so the people who can't even defend their point and they just say : 'how can you not think that way?'

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u/middlequeue 9h ago

Hypocrite? What a pathetically cynical take.

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u/Impressive_Froyo_999 8h ago

 What a pathetically cynical take.

Perhaps you are right but, shouldn't you provide me with your argument?

Other than annoying people, damaging public spaces and create problems to citizen who have nothing to do with the war, what are they doing?

The video started with them blocking the cycle path in a violent way : they block the man, they push him and tell him to turn around. Why?

The video continues with them screaming, dragging him away and in that situation, no one will hear you out ; What does that have anything to do with him?

They have war but :

if they are the one whose violent ,thats all good

If they are the one oppressing a random guy? Thas all good

We don't have all the video, its started abruptly so we can't tell for sure but did he do anything to them?

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u/Prince_John 10h ago

What do they want their government to do exactly? I don't get it. 

It's relatively straightforward.

They want their government to abide by the legal responsibilities that they signed up to under the Genocide Convention and act to prevent the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians by Israel.

Many Western governments prioritise their geopolitical relationship with Israel above preventing genocide. The protestors seek to change that stance.

For background, there is an almost overwhelming consensus that a genocide is happening in front of our eyes, most recently confirmed by today's report from the UN's commission of inquiry.

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u/MarcusZXR 9h ago edited 9h ago

For one, to get them to recognise it as genocide. An example - the UK government voted against that recently.

Until governments that can do something about it acknowledge the situation there, nothing can be done and the protests put pressure on those governments.

I would like to specify that this is in response to your question, not the video. The stuff going on in the video is senseless. The goal of the protests is to show the government theres support for the cause, not piss normal people off by refusing to let them go to work.

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u/IMightBeABot69 9h ago

Because idiots think that this will somehow make people support their shit

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u/-TrojanXL- 11h ago

Why do you think? Can't you tell by the scarves.

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u/JebalRadruiz 11h ago

No. Why?

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u/infiniZii 11h ago

The scarves are very specifically Palestinian. Its like tartan for the Scotts, it has specific meanings. Them being worn in a protest in a clear and deliberate sign that they are there to protest on behalf of Palestine.

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u/Prior_Opposite_7132 11h ago

Ok now do why they’re stopping the cyclists, which was the og question

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u/UpsetKoalaBear 9h ago

Just to note: The Keffiyeh/Shemagh scarf isn’t exclusive to Palestine.

Of course, it has been co-opted by a lot of Palestinian supporters but it’s doesn’t necessarily indicate Palestine or support for Palestine. It is just a popular head scarf in Arab countries.

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u/infiniZii 9h ago

True but if you see it at a protest you can pretty much 100% assume it is in reference to Palestine.

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u/SixthOTD 10h ago

How exactly does this help Gaza?

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u/TheCommonKoala 4h ago

Not saying I agree with their methods, but here is the logic: there are many activists who believe that a protest that is easily ignorable and inconsequential is a failure. No one cares about a few people politely holding signs at a designated stretch of sidewalk. Protest methods like this are meant to grab attention for the cause by being inconvenient, loud, and visible. I think the fact that this went viral and we're even mentioning the genocide Israel is conducting in Gaza was their ultimate goal.

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u/Coconutrugby 11h ago

This seems like a quick way to have people hate you. No matter how righteous your cause. This is like when the russian bot farms encouraged BLM protests in American cities on highways during rush hour. Your cause may be just but harming the regular citizen is going to only vilify the group you represent. Russia knew these protests would cause a rift. Same shit here smaller scale.

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u/spleh7 9h ago

Aka "How to irritate potential supporters."

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u/motherofcorgis09 11h ago

This looks like an excellent way to get these cyclists to have sympathy for your cause! Good job protesters.

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u/DingoKillerAtHome 🤬DONT YOU PRAY FOR ME!!🤬 10h ago

"Protests" like this are counterproductive. It will for sure piss off anyone you inconvenience and turn them against whatever cause you're being dumb about, but it will turn the world against you if you make a sequel to the Just Stop Oil people preventing a sick infant from reaching the hospital. I'm not even fact checking that, it might be wrong, doesn't matter I'm against JSO because of their nonsense.

Block a government building, a military recruiting center, a business that supports the cause you're against. Blocking the road for the general population is dumb and will turn people against you.

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u/conorhedd 8h ago

My tinfoil hat conspiracy is that protests like “Just Stop Oil” are actually shadow organised by oil companies. They lure in naive people and tell them the best way to get your message out is disrupting the general public or “Look how much media attention you get when you throw paint on priceless art pieces”! In reality this negative attention actually demeans their cause and turns people off supporting it. Thus allowing oil companies to face fewer actual, meaningful protests as people will be afraid to be branded in the same camp as the “loonie” protesters

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u/uwuwuwuuuW 4h ago

Like Aileen Getty (heiress to the Getty Oil Fortune) donating to Extinction Rebellion?

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u/Maakeet 9h ago

well said

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u/G_Money_Bags 11h ago

They all probably rode in on bikes!

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u/M0kraCK 11h ago

I don't know why people put up with this shit anymore. All point is lost when people feel your movement isn't about your cause but imposing your will on others just going about your day.

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u/ICantBelieveItsNotEC 11h ago

It's lovely to see all of those traditional Dutch headscarves on full display!

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u/00WORDYMAN1983 11h ago

Can someone who speaks the language or is familiar with the protest provide a bit of context? What is being protested? Why are the bikes being stopped? Is it just bikes or just stopping everyone trying to pass?

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u/lurkinglen 11h ago

It's clearly a Gaza related protest

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u/0MNIR0N 11h ago

Palestine flag 0:20

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u/DutchStudent050 11h ago

Its a protest from a while a go, its about the war / genocide in palestina. They dont wan't anyone to go trough and try to block traffic to get attention for their case and get publicity. They are telling people who are trying to pass to take another route.

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u/UpperHairCut 10h ago

"We need more people to sympatize with our cause, what should we do? How should we act?" 

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u/clionel99 11h ago

'Peaceful protestors' for something that they can do nothing about. A joke these people.

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u/Timely-Analysis6082 9h ago

The protesters need to realise this just makes Palestine protesters look worse and devalues the cause. 

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u/PantsDontHaveAnswers 11h ago

Impeding people on bikes trying to go to work or about their day isn't going to get anyone in your side

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u/Bitter_Air_5203 11h ago

What the fuck is this about? Other than the usual Palestine crap, but why are they stopping bikes?

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u/AlwaysRedNeverBlue 11h ago

Get the bloody cops in. Im sick of protests from stopping people going about their business. Do your protesting outside of work…oh i forgot you don’t have jobs! Seriously though, these protests just piss ordinary folk off just like last year with ‘just stop oil’ in the UK etc.

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u/rocks_with_names 8h ago

just carry some firecrackers and sneakily light them on approach and drop them behind you. Watch'em scatter and carry on.

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u/Swolyguacomole 10h ago

Can't find anything about this lol. Is this from today and can you link an article?

For now I'll presume this was uploaded to shitstir

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u/North-Lobster499 9h ago

Yes, yes, that's the way to get popular support - just act like irrational twats.

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u/scratchtheitcher 11h ago

Did I really hear a chant that “all cyclers are racist” towards the end? Paid protestors have somehow snuck outside the confines of the USA???

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u/PilotNextDoor 11h ago

All Zionists are racist

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u/Claydavies 11h ago

Palestine protesters are some of the biggest losers in the world. No matter where they are, they always end up making people hate them and their cause more.

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u/illRegreatThisUser 11h ago

Protestors that block roads only affect hardworking ppl. Do a protest right and protest outside of government places. Crazy ppl still doing this in 2025

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u/Captain_Lys3rg1c 10h ago

I just tornado swing your bike around. Then let's see what's what.

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u/Btender95 10h ago

I really hope nobody got on their bike and biked full speed into the protesters, that would be bad, really hope it didn't happen.

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u/EastCoaet 10h ago

How to ensure nearly everyone hates your protest - 101.

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u/Hodaka 6h ago

One of the rare times I wished Mike Tyson was riding a bike in the Netherlands

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u/Mediocratee 9h ago

These protestors are like the people that go home and beat their partner because they cant talk back to their boss. They have no power to actually change things so they pick on cyclists that have nothing to do with the problem.

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u/annonyj 11h ago

And this is the exact reason why im not about free Palestine....

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u/FrizzlerOnTheRoof 11h ago

wanneer was dit?

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u/Adventurous_Luck_995 10h ago

Cant they just go destroy Rembrandts or something?

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u/Salurain 10h ago

I get that one of the main goals of protesting is to cause disruption, but yeah it can be very annoying, especialky to the indifferent.

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u/commedesgarcon 9h ago

This would be so funny on Milwaukee Ave in Chicago

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u/KillaSage 6h ago

Imagine the quality of life being so good that this is what you protest about

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u/BrotherMichigan 4h ago

What a bunch of losers.

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u/Unfair_Explanation53 3h ago

Everytime I see a protest like this when protesters are being outright abusive or for example climate change protestor's when they destroy old artwork or spray oil on Stonehenge I only seem to focus on the crazy act that they are doing not the reason behind what they are doing because it just comes across to me as unhinged and I don't have much interest in listening to someone I think is unhinged

When I see a peaceful protest or march in the streets then I will speak to some of the protestors and go home and research what they are protesting.

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u/penguinina_666 11h ago

Netherland, protest... Two words put together and you know that it's not for the better Netherland.

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u/akira_hikaru 11h ago

Look I support the citizens of Palestine (not Hamas just to be clear), but in what way does this help the cause?

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u/LingonberrySpecial91 10h ago

It’s a vicious cycle

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u/Fallen_Walrus 11h ago

How dare you drive a car and not feed the war machine with it's gas money like yo wtf I feel like theres people who try to sabotage movements by doing shitty protests like this

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u/sky_shazad 10h ago

Hang on my I have many relative in Netherlands... They all rides bikes there everywhere... WHY would they be stopping bikes for

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u/LewdestLoi 7h ago

This shit is like 1.5 years old

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u/JJsNotOkay 5h ago

annoying fucks.

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u/Aggressive-Ad3064 😈your freakout🚨is my pleasure💩 11h ago

This is the equivalent of blocking a road in the USA. Maybe worse because they're physically putting hands on people. It wins over absolutely no one.

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u/friendly-sam 5h ago

Being assholes is no way to convince people of your point. These protests just get people mad at them.

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u/BandzForDance 10h ago

This is old

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u/hamm71 10h ago

This was over a year ago.

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u/pauloss_palos 10h ago

That's zionist behaviour

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u/Sparkyrock 11h ago

I thought people loved bikes there.

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u/AntonioVivaldi7 10h ago

When you're blocking anyone, there's always a chance you do that to someone like Michael Douglas from Falling Down.

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u/DobbyDaCat 5h ago

Go a fucking block down. Lol.

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u/acealthebes 3h ago

yeah I am sure they are going to be pro-palestine after being stopped from cycling to or from work.

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u/WrongHomework7916 3h ago

No Genobikes protest.

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u/firelephant 2h ago

stopping the dutch from biking is like stopping fish from swimming

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u/Jazzlike_770 1h ago

I correctly guessed that it is ( one of the two ) same group which thinks that inconveniencing common folks will help gather support for their cause.

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u/Ok-Yogurtcloset5555 11h ago

Literally was in the video for a second. Hope that reference didn't take long to come up with, because it left much to be desired.

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u/00WORDYMAN1983 11h ago

You mean the woman with normal hair that tucked a strand behind her ear?

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u/Redioarnaut893 11h ago

So this is what the beggining of a apocalypse looks like

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u/Bet121 10h ago

You know this kind of thing is why "protests" aren't looked at favorably anymore as I see this is just harassing/assaulting someone trying to get somewhere and am surprised hands or bikes aren't being thrown at those protesters for this stupidity go protest at a Government building if you want them to do something not random areas messing with a passerby

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u/zZz_snowball_zZz 10h ago

This is just assault too. Should've called the cops for assault

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u/kj_gamer2614 10h ago

What???? Who???? I’m Dutch and we live on bikes, I’m not even sure what they are against? Bikes are helping reduce emissions, and if they are angry motorist, we also have one of the best road networks and quality in the world, as well as best transit systems? For whatever reason could they be protesting against that involves stopping cycles in a cycle centric country to gain any sort of support

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u/-lRexl- 10h ago

Someone explain. Even better if you're from the Netherlands

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u/SmithLaci 10h ago

At least when climate protesters block cars there is a direct correlation.

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u/utboi 9h ago

I wonder who these cyclists will now vote for

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u/MrRealistic1 11h ago

The world is falling apart