Environmental protester halt the world championship in cycling... one of the best alternatives to fuel driven transportation....

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British Cycling is sponsored by oil company Shell according to the article.

Do you mind? I'm trying to be righteously infuriated over here.

It's amazing how "righteous fury" people seem to get over folks protesting sporting events because the fucking planet is on fire.

"Oh but couldn't they be more calm and quiet about it, I want to watch the race!"

With participants who likely flew themselves their bikes in from all around the world for a pointless competition. I wouldn't compare an international bike race to a person who rides their bike to work to help the environment.

Sporting events are the best way to reach hundreds of millions of people to deliver the message. Athlete flights are a tiny price to pay for it. And protesters literally fucked it up. Because they are dumbfuck attention whores and nothing else.

Tour de France sends the message performance is everything, and if you don't perform, destroy your body with drugs. It is inherently toxic.

I'm sure they had many sponsors? Admittedly, I've done zero research...

I’m sure they had many sponsors?

Visit https://www.cyclingworldchamps.com/ and scroll to the bottom. Neither Shell nor Ineos are on the list of sponsors.

Admittedly, I’ve done zero research…

Seems the protestors didn't either.

Huh, so indeed one of those shy sponsors that don't appear on the main page in the footer.

So reading through that, the Shell sponsorship is about bike chain lubricants and electric charging. Yes, very evil things.

Is shell paying you to run defence? I don't get it. Shell=bad and you should google it if you don't know why

Shell is good and you're a lunatic.

Y'all remember that post the other day about leaving all the idiots behind on reddit... About that...

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