Pro-Palestinian protesters block traffic on Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco

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Pro-Palestinian protesters block traffic on Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
cbsnews.com

A pro-Palestinian protest action briefly blocked all traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Wednesday morning.

Starting at about 7:45 a.m. Protesters stopped cars and stretched banners across the roadway denouncing Israel's bombing of Rafah in the Gaza Strip and demanding that the U.S. stop arming Israel.

Northbound and southbound traffic on the bridge was at a standstill as of 8 a.m.

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It's funny, they said the same thing about the protests against the Vietnam war.

Yeah, but it wasn't the dead Vietnamese that were putting them off.

And it didn't. The protests started in earnest a full 8 years before the war ended.

So the protests weren't blocking enough bridges for 8 full years.

Yes clearly it wasn't the method that was wrong it was the humans weren't noble enough.

We solve problems in democracy by peaceful protest, voting, lawsuits, and swaying public opinion. We don't solve problems in a democracy by blocking ambulances and pissing the hell out of regular people. No one just trying to pick up their kids is going to want to hear about your cause when you are blocking the road.

they don't block ambulances, they let them through. you've never been to a protest and it shows

Uh huh. So how do they know an ambulance isnt backed up well out of sight from the traffic jam they caused? Trick question. They fucking don't.

Your friends suck and cause death

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You do realize that your democracy is founded on violent revolution? And that slavery had to be abolished in a civil war? That the civil rights movement was shunned in the same way, now the protesters against genocide are shunned, because it inconveniences the white man on his day to day business?

If you truly object to non violent civil disobedience, than you need to object to violent revolution and civil war even more so, and reintegrate the US into the UK and offer yourself up for slavery, to reinstate what was unjustly overturned.

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