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  • @GastNdorf
    @GastNdorf Місяць тому +10102

    It's supposed to be disruptive to the people you protest against, not to the average guy

    • @dontrailtyson8405
      @dontrailtyson8405 Місяць тому +1605

      This! Protesting against police brutality should be protested at the police station, not destroying some random person’s way of living. Just saying

    • @asdfbeau
      @asdfbeau Місяць тому +407

      sane man, meet insane world.

    • @boostio_music
      @boostio_music Місяць тому +177

      Yeah I've been really surprised that asmon hasn't said this. It's the main reason it's bad.

    • @EK-hp9io
      @EK-hp9io Місяць тому +532

      The idiots blocking the roads are only going to make the unbiased people favor the opposite of whatever they’re protesting.

    • @arosbastion7052
      @arosbastion7052 Місяць тому +77

      @@boostio_music he HAS said this though.

  • @DeathScavenger420
    @DeathScavenger420 Місяць тому +3662

    The protest is supposed to be disruptive FOR THE COMPANY INVOLVED, not random civilians.
    Anyone else remember the bus strike in Japan? They stayed in service but refused to take fares - directly hurting the company, not the civilians.

    • @Zarkyun
      @Zarkyun Місяць тому +463

      W japanese bus drivers

    • @Shoiiow
      @Shoiiow Місяць тому +191

      protests done right

    • @BluejayBardo
      @BluejayBardo Місяць тому +106

      No, the primary aim of a protest is to bring attention to a cause. While a protest can be disruptive, it isn’t necessarily supposed to break the law-that’s more akin to civil disobedience, where laws are deliberately broken to highlight an issue. If a protest escalates to causing damage or harm, it verges into rioting. It’s important to differentiate between being disruptive within the bounds of the law and stepping into civil disobedience or rioting.

    • @juicebowl
      @juicebowl Місяць тому

      I think they see average citizens as cogs in the war machine. So disrupting citizens is disrupting the war.

    • @Ethan_Fel
      @Ethan_Fel Місяць тому

      Protesting by not taking fare is illegal in most western countries. That's a way to protest that use a loophole their governement probably closed now.

  • @Retro-Revenge
    @Retro-Revenge Місяць тому +1332

    If I stood outside that guy's house blocking his driveway as a protest so he couldn't go to his protest, he'd call the cops to get rid of me.

    • @Thecraftyblacksheep
      @Thecraftyblacksheep Місяць тому +86

      Isn’t that ironic lol

    • @MrRADicalOfficial
      @MrRADicalOfficial Місяць тому +143

      Stop using logic you're confusing them!

    • @CrippledMenace
      @CrippledMenace Місяць тому +22

      If ur black he wont for sure 😂

    • @ljeans531
      @ljeans531 Місяць тому +1

      ​ @MrRADicalOfficial actually asmonds logic is incorrect. He says in a monarchy you dont have representation.
      Thats untrue, which shows how much he really knows about anything.
      Colonies all had representatives during that time that reported back to the crown and took proposals and grievances. The problem was, these people were FINANCIALLY incentivised to prioritize the wants of the crown over the colonies.
      Kinda like how Israeli donors do to our politicians. So the colonies chose civil disobedience.
      2. Its not voting season and every week you do nothing is 100+ dead in Gaza. Those lives actually matter to the protestors. Unlike asmond who thinks making someone late for work should weigh more on his Conscience than Toddlers in gaza being operated on without Anesthesia...

    • @MrRADicalOfficial
      @MrRADicalOfficial Місяць тому +44

      @@ljeans531 I don't know how that completely related to my comment, but I am in fact completely ignorant on the Israel vs Palestine as I have not been keeping up. All I know is both sides have fked up, and blocking your average civilian when they have places to be will only make them spite you. You're logic falls apart because of that, the fact that annoying people will never make them join your cause, and in fact, can make them go against it. That is the wrong way to go about it PERIOD. If I have somewhere to be and there are protesters slowing down the flow of traffic significantly, I'd lose all interest in whatever they're protesting and find them a nuisance because you're making yourselves look like lunatics. Stand on the sides of the road and don't block traffic. Normal people don't stand in the middle of the road. You've lost the moment you've inconvenienced the common person who could literally lose their job for being late just for a protest that they could or could not care less about. You're supposed to be inconveniencing the government, and companies, not the average Joe. It's funny actually because the majority of the people I've seen that stand in the road and block cars have all been unhinged people (it happens most for the crazy unempathetic protests like the radical femenists, Antifa, BLM, etc. who are all selfish people destroying property or protesting against freedoms).
      All this to say, just be normal. What is happening is horrific, but such is human nature. It is going to happen again and again. This existence is abhorrent, but there is nothing you and I can do anything about that. I hope the war ends, but crazy sociopaths will be crazy sociopaths. I don't vote to begin with because politics is just a game of who is less corrupt. It is all manipulation and evil from the bottom up. If we get someone who actually seems to be a decent human being for once, I will vote for them. But we have to worry about our own country first before others. The government is a joke. America is falling apart. Big pharma and the food industry are already poisoning this country, and most companies are controlling the narrative. Mega corporations are destroying the environment with plastics, PFAs, Benzene, 1, 4-Dioxane, Hexane, etc. How about we fix our country first before worrying about countries that are nowhere near us? You'll get better results for your cause if you fix the bigger problem first. Most people can't even use basic logic because our school system is utter garbage, and their brains are being stunted by endocrine disruptors and countless chemicals that are causing brain damage. You really excpect them to understand the nuances of a situation like that when they are incredibly unhealthy and have brain fog, intelligence on the decline, and can barely afford to even feed themselves or their families? Taking medications that have had little studies on safety, typically one or two that were on rats only, that keep people sick from side effects so the medical industry can profit off of their suffering? This is why I drink lots of loose leaf tea, eat less processed foods, and take adaptogens because my health was not great from all the sht foods and products that are all over the place. You have to fix your situation first before you can work on others. I wish them well, but most Americans just don't care. They're under the control of the media and mega corporations, and are so overwhelmed they have to focus on their lives and those closest to them.

  • @CodyCombat
    @CodyCombat Місяць тому +328

    I've never once had my day disrupted by a stranger on purpose and ended that day with more support of the person that created an inconvenience for me

    • @BrianGivensYtube
      @BrianGivensYtube 18 днів тому +10

      Exactly, they just make enemies for their cause when they screw with everyone else unproductively.

    • @beh3m0th67
      @beh3m0th67 9 днів тому

      RuneScape

  • @sbdnsngdsnsns31312
    @sbdnsngdsnsns31312 Місяць тому +1743

    The Boston tea party was a protest against British tea imports specifically, not just the government in general. The tea company was not some random uninvolved party, they had lobbied the British government for preferential taxes and monopolies to allow them to charge higher prices to the colonies.

    • @No_Fuse8771
      @No_Fuse8771 Місяць тому +223

      Thank you for knowing history. It gives me hope that I had lost.

    • @spectralassassin6030
      @spectralassassin6030 Місяць тому +68

      I was hoping Asmon would bring that up but I guess he doesn't know about it. Ah well.

    • @Dukes3677
      @Dukes3677 Місяць тому +44

      Exactly! Can't make taxes on something you didn't sell!

    • @ColonelMetus
      @ColonelMetus Місяць тому +15

      ​@No_Fuse8771 the Boston tea party was in response to higher taxes thar were caused by global warming

    • @Bonk13b
      @Bonk13b Місяць тому +1

      @@ColonelMetus 💯

  • @SurrealFeelz
    @SurrealFeelz Місяць тому +3551

    I protested high movie ticket prices by going to football games and farting in peoples faces. People got mad at me and the ticket prices stayed the same but hey, at least i was disruptive.
    - average tiktok protestor

    • @SirBladewind
      @SirBladewind Місяць тому +170

      Great way of describing it lol

    • @LabelsAreMeaningless
      @LabelsAreMeaningless Місяць тому

      You don't know what the hell you're talking about. If you think the government is not feeling pressure from these protests you're ignorant on the topic. You are aware that elections are getting closer and the Democrats won't exactly be thrilled that their base is protesting against them, right? Have you seen all the signs saying they refuse to vote for Biden? If you don't think disrupting the infrastructure and supply lines will get the attention of the government, then you've not thought about it at all.
      The US government is providing weapons and funding to Israel, which enables the devastation of Gaza and everyone living there, so yes it's appropriate to be protesting in the US. It wouldn't be happening without the US.

    • @trollsearching8968
      @trollsearching8968 Місяць тому +48

      Thank you for this little treasure. I did laugh out loud when I read this one. Kudos

    • @xXFoiXx
      @xXFoiXx Місяць тому +162

      I don't get it. Can you maybe put it as a convoluted World of Warcraft metaphor for me to understand it?

    • @Masterofchodes
      @Masterofchodes Місяць тому +19

      ​@@xXFoiXx😂

  • @cavemut1244
    @cavemut1244 Місяць тому +800

    Stopping traffic can cause an emergency situation. Creating an emergency situation is not peaceful protesting.

    • @mugi_c4420
      @mugi_c4420 Місяць тому +3

      They literally let emergency vehicles by you are just looking for reasons for them not to protest for a just cause.

    • @PanoStressed
      @PanoStressed Місяць тому +72

      @@mugi_c4420 It's not a just cause to protest for terrorists. Also, I have never seen any protests for Lybia or the Uygurs. Blocking roads is ILLEGAL! They shouldn't do it end of the story, wake up.

    • @A-Straw-Hat
      @A-Straw-Hat Місяць тому +87

      @@mugi_c4420 Ive seen videos where they do not let emergency vehicles by. Stopping traffic has dire consequences for those who are not involved. A single father losing his job due to being late, a mother who cannot get her kid medicine in time which leads to hospitalization, a mother in labor trying to get to the hospital and her kid dies due to no medical support...I could go on but if you are not capable of thinking this far then its likely you are a lost cause of reactionary discourse who is easily influenced. If you are still okay with the above than I truly hope it happens to you or your family so you can learn some empathy.

    • @mugi_c4420
      @mugi_c4420 Місяць тому

      @@A-Straw-Hat I have seen many videos where they do let them by, none where they don't. Maybe it was from a different more disorganized protest but for the most part these students are letting emergency vehicles by because they are protesting for less deaths not more. As for these other hypotheticals, they are just that hypotheticals. Know what is not hypothetical? Over 30k dead innocent people, mutilated children, starving babies, Israeli hostages blown up by Israeli bombs and that's not even scratching the surface of all the inhuman things Israel is doing with our weapons and tax dollars and you don't care. Then you have the audacity to question my empathy when you clearly have none. I hope that the strawhat isn't a OP reference because you clearly missed the point.

    • @followdanger890
      @followdanger890 Місяць тому

      @@mugi_c4420soy levels at overdose

  • @MB-oc7ky
    @MB-oc7ky Місяць тому +532

    “The point of a protest is to be disruptive.”
    Man I feel silly thinking the point of a protest was to protest something.

    • @electroninja8768
      @electroninja8768 Місяць тому

      The political parties run most of the media in the US. If you aren't causing a news-worthy disruption, they will just pretend that your protest doesn't exist. For example, there were several organized protests last year with thousands of people, and not a single news story or video from any of the major media outlets. They were just too peaceful and boring to be worth mentioning. Those protests ultimately had no sizable effect, because they had no visibility.

    • @wallyworld1358
      @wallyworld1358 Місяць тому +9

      Is a protest not used to promote change or just a bunch of insane people who like to waste their time? You're using the word protest in its definition. But it seems like you are missing the point of why people protest in the first place. It's not a tantrum to say ," hey I'm mad" it's to promote change. Now to put a little logic. If someone is wearing a t shirt to protest their point do you or any other feel that there would ever be change in favor of the protestor? Any answer other than no?? You should feel silly by using the word protest in describing the point of protesting.

    • @ranndomundead9112
      @ranndomundead9112 Місяць тому

      this is a recent narrative brought up by the political left and its about inching things into "reasonable" reach. They use this as a means to goat people into doing dumb shit. Blocking roads, burning businesses, attacking people, even killing people. theyre all various levels under the disruptive blanket. and as this narrative continues breeding in these terrorist circles, the level of disruption will gradually increase across the board. In the background your MSM and politicians begin encouraging this, making "disruption" an accepted activity throughout society. Police are told to stand down and let it happen and only to arrest those who get in the way "for their protection".
      Its a slow process, and ever since 2008 weve seen these methods gradually increase inch by inch. On this current path, the kids being born this year will grow up in a world like the middle east, where terrorism is simply an accepted activity.

    • @TheL0ngbeard
      @TheL0ngbeard Місяць тому +27

      The point of a protest is to demonstrate mass support when it comes to a side of an issue and hopefully get more people on your side and that's why being a pain in the ass for everyone around does not serve the purpose, these people just want to be disruptive and enjoy having power over others.

    • @wallyworld1358
      @wallyworld1358 Місяць тому +3

      @@TheL0ngbeard mass support? Why not just support? So 1 person can't protest? I for one never said any of these people are in the right, but being a pain when directly effecting parties that may hold decision making of whatever you're protesting could be a little more effective. I'm not exactly sure what you're defending here. The singall word in your entire paragraph that seems accurate or pertinent is "support" the rest of your statement contributes nothing.

  • @Phaevryn
    @Phaevryn Місяць тому +678

    Those "protesters" choose the laziest, low effort, just around the corner, easy target with lowest chance of getting hit in the face option. Such fierce warriors.

    • @MegaBusterDude
      @MegaBusterDude Місяць тому +35

      No, the lowest form and laziest way is yelling it out in twitter and pretending you actually care only just to look like a "good" person.
      At least these people are outside, even if it's fckn stupid what they're doing.

    • @saloscontent
      @saloscontent Місяць тому +10

      @@MegaBusterDude that was the dumbest ive heard.

    • @MikeB-ev4fh
      @MikeB-ev4fh Місяць тому +18

      @@MegaBusterDude I would prefer dumb people not break the law to protest something on the other side of the world, just to be OUTSIDE.

    • @MegaBusterDude
      @MegaBusterDude Місяць тому +16

      @@MikeB-ev4fh
      I did say it was stupid what they're doing lol.

    • @nmc400
      @nmc400 Місяць тому

      The real way to protest is to move out of the usa so they cant take your tax money. But theyd never move out of america.

  • @1LittleAnimeFan1
    @1LittleAnimeFan1 Місяць тому +458

    Here in the UK when protestors blocked the road they stopped someone taking his mother to hospital, she had permanent consequences for their stupidity. They've no right to block the road, protest on the kerb out of people's way.

    • @robertnapier624
      @robertnapier624 Місяць тому +4

      Was it just stop oil or pro palestine protesters? How recent are we talking?

    • @raghavshukla2005
      @raghavshukla2005 Місяць тому +75

      @@robertnapier624 it was stop oil and at most 3 months ago

    • @Taygon45
      @Taygon45 Місяць тому +9

      @@raghavshukla2005 Was it the one that turned out to be vegetable oil?

    • @raghavshukla2005
      @raghavshukla2005 Місяць тому +36

      @@Taygon45 same guys different incident

    • @chexmixkitty
      @chexmixkitty Місяць тому +9

      @@robertnapier624 does it matter?

  • @carnebie
    @carnebie Місяць тому +131

    There is no legal right to disruptive protest. Their is a protected right to peaceable assembly and to petitioning the government for redress.

    • @kalechips5972
      @kalechips5972 19 днів тому

      It's a good thing the law doesn't grant right but rather only protects them.

    • @zed4210
      @zed4210 16 днів тому +3

      ​@@kalechips5972There's no right of disruptive protest to be protected by the law, either.

  • @callmetravesty8762
    @callmetravesty8762 Місяць тому +30

    No, protests are not meant to be disruptive. This is a relatively new idea.
    Protests are a mass gathering of people to demonstrate and show there support or issues with a situation.
    Protests were not like this when I was growing up, they've changed the definition and expected everyone to just accept it.

  • @Zenith118
    @Zenith118 Місяць тому +1269

    If youre going to shut down bridges for a protest you can get a legal permit for that so that the city can create alternative passages to get people where they need to go. The Civil Rights movement including the SCLC and SNCC did this in the 60s and 70s. Look it up.

    • @user-eq1by7ho2q
      @user-eq1by7ho2q Місяць тому +37

      Upvote

    • @asdfbeau
      @asdfbeau Місяць тому +184

      They used to march to DC. Nowadays, the Burger King generation can't even muster the stamina to remain standing.

    • @monirogue1570
      @monirogue1570 Місяць тому +8

      valid point!

    • @Graphaeli
      @Graphaeli Місяць тому +2

      W

    • @exiledhebrew1994
      @exiledhebrew1994 Місяць тому

      ⁠civil rights protesters shut down DC. Guess they shouldn’t have done that because it was disruptive

  • @rahn45
    @rahn45 Місяць тому +1530

    "Protests are get out of jail free cards."
    - The full extent of their argument.

    • @cieloz7574
      @cieloz7574 Місяць тому +15

      This is Asmongold's most bad faith video ever when it comes to the topic of free speech to a peaceful protest. The amount of ignorance and false equivalence Asmongold has made, yikes. He should do a stream with someone who covered Palestine issue for years such as Hasanabi

    • @JAFrk
      @JAFrk Місяць тому +40

      But only if the protest supports their own cause of course.

    • @exiledhebrew1994
      @exiledhebrew1994 Місяць тому

      Don’t say you or asmond gold believe in the first amendment

    • @exiledhebrew1994
      @exiledhebrew1994 Місяць тому +1

      Don’t say that you believe in the constitution

    • @pinkt1t5
      @pinkt1t5 Місяць тому

      This.

  • @andrewlesniak8018
    @andrewlesniak8018 Місяць тому +21

    Protesters who break the law should be prepared to be arrested and charged. It's really bothersome how they'll act like they should be immune from consequences because they 'have the correct opinions'.

  • @EmilKlingberg
    @EmilKlingberg Місяць тому +46

    Least disruptive? Seriously, if you want to be disruptive through affecting taxes, guess what. Don't pay your taxes, don't go to work, stand outside of the governmental office that correlates to your complaint and shout at them for hours on end until they listen or until you get removed.

    • @wiliex0687
      @wiliex0687 Місяць тому +1

      That’s will get you arrested instantly it’s been done but didn’t end well

    • @MakaRonMcPasta
      @MakaRonMcPasta 18 днів тому +12

      @@wiliex0687 So what?
      That's part of being a """revolutionary""".
      You have to be willing to get punished by the establishment.

    • @godofdestructionFTW
      @godofdestructionFTW 11 днів тому

      Shooot they would need a restraining order to keep me out😂

  • @stanm4410
    @stanm4410 Місяць тому +616

    He makes the point that "If you buy a coffee you are paying a tax."
    Yes. A sales tax. Which is paid to the local city and county level governments. Neither of which have any authority or influence on the United States' foreign policy. Which is the thing you are protesting.

    • @finerthings4546
      @finerthings4546 Місяць тому +10

      No. Sales tax are collected by the state.

    • @FlyfishermanMike
      @FlyfishermanMike Місяць тому +86

      Reminds me of the lady who went to her city council, made some demands about Palestine then threatened to kill them and got arrested. What's the city council going to do about Palestine??

    • @darklelouchg8505
      @darklelouchg8505 Місяць тому +26

      ​@@finerthings4546There is not real differentiation between local and state officials. Local officials derive their authority from state authority after all, and many act only in their capacity at the will of the State.

    • @vanripem
      @vanripem Місяць тому +6

      @@darklelouchg8505 Not in the United States, though. That's like Federal Constitution 101.

    • @vanripem
      @vanripem Місяць тому +11

      @@finerthings4546 Wrong. Municipal and city sales taxes are absolutely a thing, including in San Francisco and New York, where some of the most disruptive of these "protests" are taking place.

  • @dillonchapman7191
    @dillonchapman7191 Місяць тому +228

    the boston tea party was significant because it was protesting high tax increases on common daily items, like tea, by completely destroying the import of that good, that was owned BY england. the tea was destroyed to the point where it physically could not be sold into the market, causing it to be a net loss to england. how much did the tea cost that the protesters destryoed? almost 2 million dollars in todays currency. they protested the sale of a product, by destroying a large quantity of that said product, before england could ever sell it. they didnt protest the increase of tea by going out and beating up leatherworking artisans.

    • @paul-antonywhatshisface3954
      @paul-antonywhatshisface3954 Місяць тому +3

      England never owned the tea. Private enterprises did, british ones at that. this is the same as when people say "england sold slaves"

    • @nolabratteig988
      @nolabratteig988 Місяць тому +2

      Fun fact. Those tea boxes contain about 2 million dollars worth of tea because the tea was stored in bricks. Mind you 2m per box.

    • @DeputyFish
      @DeputyFish Місяць тому +18

      @@paul-antonywhatshisface3954 that is the stupidest thing to ever say. by that logic the US never owned slaves. because private people did.
      england own and sold slaves. just like every other country ever known of the world and time. theres not a single country. that hasnt at one point owned slaves.

    • @blockchainprofessor.x
      @blockchainprofessor.x Місяць тому

      As someone living near Boston, now all of these folks just say yes when they get bent over for taxes on everything. Every single fucking thing is taxed, and taxed multiple times.
      Yet Boston hasn't had a corporate revolution

    • @n3rdst0rm
      @n3rdst0rm Місяць тому +11

      ​@paul-antonywhatshisface3954 you missed the part that stated England raised taxes on said tea. Meaning if it got destroyed England couldn't collect tax on said tea and the company lost their potential revenue from that tea.
      Modern day equivalent to the pouring tea into the harbor is people not working to not pay personal income tax.

  • @cronus-kumo
    @cronus-kumo Місяць тому +14

    To the comment saying "If i care about Palestine what would be the right way to protest then?"
    Literally having a proper protest where you gather in front of a government building where people can actually act instead of in the middle of the road.
    I don‘t get how this is so hard to understand.

    • @edattacks
      @edattacks 18 днів тому +1

      It's not hard to understand, but they're letting others think for them unfortunately :/ . I'm sure there's people who go to protest that notice the problem, but go with the majority rather than trying to speak on it and be accused of being the bad guy

  • @marcuspruitt2345
    @marcuspruitt2345 Місяць тому +27

    "your not a revolutionary fighter, you're standing in the road" is the best phrase I've ever heard in my life 😂

  • @purevessel4506
    @purevessel4506 Місяць тому +3389

    If TikTok challenges you by default you win

    • @smokyofstormwind6320
      @smokyofstormwind6320 Місяць тому +56

      the only way to win is to not play their game

    • @friarruse1827
      @friarruse1827 Місяць тому +119

      Tiktok brainrot is real

    • @tylerharvey1707
      @tylerharvey1707 Місяць тому +8

      thats child logic

    • @dudemandudeable
      @dudemandudeable Місяць тому +3

      Punctuation

    • @cieloz7574
      @cieloz7574 Місяць тому +9

      This is Asmongold's most bad faith video ever when it comes to the topic of free speech to a peaceful protest. The amount of ignorance and false equivalence Asmongold has made, yikes. He should do a stream with someone who covered Palestine issue for years such as Hasanabi

  • @Snowymae
    @Snowymae Місяць тому +189

    People need to realize that a protest is most effective when it makes the average person aware of and thinking about the subject of your protest. You don’t want to piss off the same people you’re hoping to recruit

    • @beerten202
      @beerten202 Місяць тому +4

      Its like im pissing off 1 ant at a time
      1 aint is not a problem but when you piss off a million ants that alot of ants out to hurt you
      You rather want that a million ants on your side then against you

    • @Victor-oy8bj
      @Victor-oy8bj Місяць тому +1

      no asmongold is wrong. the whole point is breaking the law. if a country has a law that states: no protesting or boycotting, then the people cannot do anything to change the system without breaking the law

    • @kodosquea1994
      @kodosquea1994 Місяць тому +38

      ​@@Victor-oy8bjcopy pasting everywhere like a bundle of sticks makes you look like a bundle of sticks

    • @coshvjicujmlqef6047
      @coshvjicujmlqef6047 Місяць тому +1

      hong kong protestors?

    • @Victor-oy8bj
      @Victor-oy8bj Місяць тому

      @@kodosquea1994 haha you really tried so sound clever there. i dont even know how to be offended by being called a bundle of sticks lmfao tf does that even mean

  • @Theprince034
    @Theprince034 Місяць тому +14

    The whole idea of stopping people from getting to work and not gaining money has a huge flaw (several actually) but that may stop people from working and possibly even getting fired but it does nothing to stop taxes so basically they chose the most annoying route but also the most useless they are literally achieving nothing

  • @FluffySylveonBoi
    @FluffySylveonBoi Місяць тому +10

    Tiktok as a platform should cease to exist, it is such a dump tbh.

    • @edattacks
      @edattacks 18 днів тому +1

      Thing is, the dump would just flood somewhere else 🤷🏾‍♂️. Better to divide the trash to make it easier to deal with, heap by heap. I'd rather have a landfill somewhere that I won't ever be, if rarely. Tumblr, deviant art, 4chan, etc. are areas I won't find myself digging around in majority of the time.

  • @hunterxgirl
    @hunterxgirl Місяць тому +357

    "The end justify the means" is such a toxic mindset

    • @NameIsDoc
      @NameIsDoc Місяць тому +39

      The end justifies the means is incredibly shortsighted.
      There is no end. What you do as a means of reaching your goal will always come back to haunt you.
      Let not the means of your actions blind you and be the means of your own downfall.

    • @CatacombD
      @CatacombD Місяць тому +56

      It's not even that, it's actually worse. It's, "The ends justify the means, but only when it's something that I specifically support. For any cause I don't support, the ends *don't* justify the means, and you're a monster for even thinking that would be okay!"

    • @ChristofferViken
      @ChristofferViken Місяць тому +7

      The ends justifies the means is rational *IFF* (and only if) you have weighed the ends and the means against each other.
      Most of the time people who do that do not do that.
      I have a good example of "The end justify the means" that was well thought out (Note: it does not mean that you have to agree with it, it means that the weighing was done; you will probably assign different weights).
      The Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The end was to end the war by wasting as few lives as possible. The means was to go after civilian targets. (Japan didn't have mostly-military targets like how pearl was).
      The US would have won that war (They had a bigger navy and better access to natural resources to expand their navy), but it could have taken years, and it is not at all unreasonable to assume that the bombs saved lives on both sides (by number of deaths by the way).
      The big problem that "The end justify the means" has these days is that it is just used without weighing, or just by completely unjustifiable weights (like: My cause has infinite weight, the thing we destroy has zero weight).

    • @Amor_Fati002
      @Amor_Fati002 Місяць тому +4

      Thanos mentality.

    • @corvuslight
      @corvuslight Місяць тому +2

      It's because they believe that "there is no truth but power".
      If they are not psychopaths already, they're well on their way there.

  • @AuthorNathanJohnson
    @AuthorNathanJohnson Місяць тому +1751

    I appreciate Asmon's ability to not only explain his positions consistently on the fly (s-tier), but his ability to remain emotionally unmoved by people who don't even understand his full and nuanced position on a subject. And let me point out the absurd hubris of a man attempting to degrade another person by "putting it in World of Warcraft terms" while presenting a completely polarized view that requires almost no analytical ability to post for high-fives on social media.

    • @mufasafalldown8401
      @mufasafalldown8401 Місяць тому +35

      You mistake his rationality for his ability to talk about subjects without alienating half his audience.
      He has the ability to call something stupid while ignoring the larger picture and root causes.

    • @Raauf
      @Raauf Місяць тому +118

      @@mufasafalldown8401 Care to explain more?

    • @AuthorNathanJohnson
      @AuthorNathanJohnson Місяць тому +134

      @@mufasafalldown8401 No, rationality is rationality. It doesn't presuppose tiptoeing around to avoid hurt feelings, and this is especially the case when a man has said he's more sympathetic of the Palestinian situation than the Israeli, despite both of them being imperfect.

    • @solemasta2036
      @solemasta2036 Місяць тому +96

      ​@@mufasafalldown8401wtf are you yapping please make sense

    • @ix7958
      @ix7958 Місяць тому +10

      not to mention, in said analogy, its a proven case that the Grief Issue is againts the rules of the games

  • @verscarii3238
    @verscarii3238 Місяць тому +4

    I wonder if the "protests are supposed to be disruptive" crowd thought the same about Jan 6th, or does that only apply to whatever their pet issue is for the the next couple months?

  • @jnewgot
    @jnewgot Місяць тому +6

    If I can't get to my work, you're going to auto-fail to convince me.

  • @alvinderama3196
    @alvinderama3196 Місяць тому +103

    "Fiery but mostly peaceful protest". I will never forget that crazy movement

    • @ravenzyblack
      @ravenzyblack Місяць тому

      Neither will the people whose businesses and houses were burned to the ground. Nor those whose loved ones were murdered that year by BLM and Antifa.

    • @NameIsDoc
      @NameIsDoc Місяць тому +26

      That was the most egregious example of a two teir system I've ever seen. My friend got arrested for grilling with his neighbor in their shared backyard but 3-5 blocks away people were burning down businesses and nobody would do anything

    • @Laughing_Chinaman
      @Laughing_Chinaman Місяць тому +1

      its insane how no one holds the media/politicians accountable. they called people protesting to go back to work terrorists but looters and rioters are 'fiery but mostly peaceful, anti fascists'

    • @LordDaret
      @LordDaret Місяць тому +1

      ⁠@@NameIsDocI think the BLM “protests” is what makes people unhappy about January 5th. In many ways it was FAR less egregious than what the BLM movement caused, and yet Jan. 5 pretty much got crucified. It really puts on display how bad the perception of mainstream media and social media has become. Both should be condemned, but only 1 got damned.

  • @CrapTrap
    @CrapTrap Місяць тому +955

    Protest: To participate in a public demonstration in opposition to something. No where in the definition of protest does it say that the purpose is to be disruptive. The point is to gather publicly and to voice your opposition to something.

    • @jonathanborg6242
      @jonathanborg6242 Місяць тому +12

      no its not. It's to put pressure on lawmakers and the Presidential administration.

    • @CrapTrap
      @CrapTrap Місяць тому +2

      @@jonathanborg6242 look up the definition my dude

    • @AC-cg6gz
      @AC-cg6gz Місяць тому +115

      @@jonathanborg6242 They should vote better politicians in that represent them then

    • @iiBenihime
      @iiBenihime Місяць тому +62

      ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@jonathanborg6242He worded it poorly and you misunderstood him.
      He’s saying that’s what protests are, gathering publicly and voicing opposition

    • @mufasafalldown8401
      @mufasafalldown8401 Місяць тому +62

      *watches BLM's peaceful protests from 2020*
      😶

  • @crono3231
    @crono3231 Місяць тому +8

    I love how he justifies real world destruction of property, blocking emergency vehicles from saving people, etc. because you can do that in a video game? Like how delusional is this man?

    • @N1korasu
      @N1korasu 14 днів тому

      Not only that it's literally going after the people you are fighting against. What he actually thinks is right is the alliance players going to Guild Wars 2 and griefing to stick it to the hoard

  • @Sirfredgar
    @Sirfredgar Місяць тому +5

    I think the best and most direct example of blocking the road having a negative effect on the unrelated citizen, is Truck Drivers. They get paid per delivery, and if that delivery is late they get fines. They also might be so late they can’t pick up their next load. Many company drivers get paid by the mile. Basically they only get paid when the wheels are rolling.

    • @gamingsuperun
      @gamingsuperun 8 днів тому

      Besides the fact that trucks can kill you extremely easily, I think its important to let them go ahead of you or wait for them to pass before crossing the street because I don't need to be messing their paper

  • @DreadedOne
    @DreadedOne Місяць тому +223

    Blocking roads also puts emergency services at risk. If someone has a heart attack and needs an ambulance, every second counts.

    • @2changJRPGmusic
      @2changJRPGmusic Місяць тому

      You think they care if some random person not supporting their world view dies?

    • @qaulwart
      @qaulwart Місяць тому +6

      No. That's why protests will let emergency vehicles through. And if they don't, then please, by all means, arrest these people immediately.

    • @ETBrooD
      @ETBrooD Місяць тому

      It doesn't put them at risk at all. The protesters can hear the sirens and let the ambulance through.

    • @wowzockasuc
      @wowzockasuc Місяць тому +112

      ​@@qaulwartso how will they let an emergncy vehicle through that is stuck in a traffic jam, that the protesters caused but cant see?

    • @NameIsDoc
      @NameIsDoc Місяць тому

      ⁠unfortunately that isn't how traffic works. The protestors think they are letting them through but in reality they are acting much like a blood clot. They gum up all the roads and prevent responders from getting places.

  • @23mrcash
    @23mrcash Місяць тому +440

    “You aren’t a revolutionary fighter you are standing in the road” quote of the day.

    • @robertnapier624
      @robertnapier624 Місяць тому +5

      The quote should include an idiot in between are and standing

    • @Victor-oy8bj
      @Victor-oy8bj Місяць тому +2

      no asmongold is wrong. the whole point is breaking the law. if a country has a law that states: no protesting or boycotting, then the people cannot do anything to change the system without breaking the law

    • @kaiwolfgang1871
      @kaiwolfgang1871 Місяць тому

      But there isn't a law prohibiting protesting wtf?​@Victor-oy8bj

    • @coshvjicujmlqef6047
      @coshvjicujmlqef6047 Місяць тому +6

      What about hong kong protestors?

    • @lucasljs1545
      @lucasljs1545 Місяць тому

      So why is the "civil rights movement" so celebrated? Was it because it was about bringing down white people? Because they only did that, standing in the road. The problems of black violence, drug use, rape, broken families was never fixed.

  • @rexommendation7117
    @rexommendation7117 Місяць тому +4

    Man, if I ever was stopped by these kinds of causes that hurt not only me but people in general just trying to get by, I'm going to support and donate to whatever they are protesting against.

  • @jpteknoman
    @jpteknoman 26 днів тому +4

    If you want to protest policy, you do it outside the congress or the white house, not in a random street.

  • @SG-qb8ne
    @SG-qb8ne Місяць тому +889

    disruptive to the government, not to innocent citizens.

    • @RenderingUser
      @RenderingUser Місяць тому +18

      can i get a list of all the activities that fit that description?

    • @narfle
      @narfle Місяць тому +66

      @@RenderingUser That was not in good faith.

    • @cieloz7574
      @cieloz7574 Місяць тому

      I'm sorry, but protesting on the students' own campus is someone's else campus?????? are u re*ard?

    • @happysocialmoth1197
      @happysocialmoth1197 Місяць тому

      @@RenderingUserliterally, look up all the protests and rallies MLK organized in the past, and you’ll see why it was successful

    • @exiledhebrew1994
      @exiledhebrew1994 Місяць тому

      ⁠civil rights protesters shut down DC. Guess they shouldn’t have done that because it was disruptive

  • @IzibaMusic
    @IzibaMusic Місяць тому +82

    So one set of WOW players is upset at another set of WOW players so they block me who doesn't play WOW from going to work.
    Now it makes sense.

  • @agentonyx
    @agentonyx Місяць тому +7

    Agree with you 100% on every point you hit. Well said. Also, my two cents: breaking the law when protesting only makes sense if you are protesting the law you’re breaking. It’s called civil disobedience. As long as you don’t injure or kill others it’s potentially justifiable. Doesn’t mean there won’t be consequences though.

  • @davidmorcombe6779
    @davidmorcombe6779 Місяць тому +2

    how is disrupting traffic not hurting people? emergancy workers? people going to potentially life saving surgery, the consenquences are infinate for distrupting traffic

  • @beerten202
    @beerten202 Місяць тому +136

    What they are basically are saying is
    "Im going to inconvinience you sooo much so that the other guy that isnt directly impacted is getting hurt. So why are you against me hurting you?"

    • @Golden_SnowFlake
      @Golden_SnowFlake Місяць тому +8

      Well put.

    • @choweigarytsang1205
      @choweigarytsang1205 Місяць тому

      You deeply misunderstand protesting. If you are Palestine or a true supporter not larper, then you don't care about any disruption. Just like any protest that you fully support, say stop funding foreign wars and reduce tax, you probably don't mind being inconvenienced.
      You are allowed to side with polivr against protesters, it is how unpopular protest works, people side with police against them

    • @wolfengod8277
      @wolfengod8277 Місяць тому +11

      @@choweigarytsang1205
      We don’t care one way or another about Israel or Palestine. It’s just not our problem, stay out of the roads and stop messing up life for people that aren’t interested or involved.
      Go protest at your local government building or write to your politicians if you feel you must. Keep up with this nonsense and the people will spite support whatever group is anti your group.

  • @notbeefttv
    @notbeefttv Місяць тому +241

    Boston tea party might've been the worst correlation of all time, in the dead of night they poured out tea vs people blocking normal civilians from just living life 😂

    • @notbeefttv
      @notbeefttv Місяць тому +25

      For a country that isn't their own 😂

    • @ganymedehedgehog371
      @ganymedehedgehog371 Місяць тому +56

      It was also specifically for a tea tax. The Boston tea party had a lot of thought and planning to actually impact the crown rather than just mess with people’s day.

    • @JustAnotherAccount8
      @JustAnotherAccount8 Місяць тому +17

      Tea is also a commodity that no one needs to live (unless you're british, which was kinda the point)
      Also find it funny that during the boston tea party, they dressed up like native americans... wouldn't these people call that cultural appropriation?

    • @iamunrated1247
      @iamunrated1247 Місяць тому

      Correlation huh? Might want to stick to words you actually know the meaning of

    • @lamegamertime
      @lamegamertime Місяць тому +10

      @@iamunrated1247 Correlation works here.

  • @redactedaudioworks9407
    @redactedaudioworks9407 Місяць тому +4

    The reason why the boston tea party is different is because it had a direct impact on the crowns trade. Standing in the street does not have a direct impact on tax income and how its allocated. Youre paying the same tax whether you make it to where you need to be or not

  • @cosmicarmor2426
    @cosmicarmor2426 22 дні тому +2

    "I'm going to respond to this in good faith"
    Doesn't.

  • @MrPapamaci88
    @MrPapamaci88 Місяць тому +107

    Hurting average people for your own agenda is literal terrorism, to protest is to spread your message of protestation. If you protest by breaking the law and/or causing a problem for everyone other than you, you are damning your own damn cause to be viewed just as stupid and disruptive as you were. In a democracy you can arrange a protest, get permits from the police and in democracies peaceful and legal protests are usually the most successful. In a dictatorship you find a way that allows you to do it legally and anonymously if possible (to protect yourself and your family) in a way your message can spread. You only get disruptive and/or destructive when you can't figure out a better way.

    • @Ugabunga999
      @Ugabunga999 Місяць тому

      It really shows you are so privileged that everything in life has been spoon fed to you in gold utensils

    • @MrPapamaci88
      @MrPapamaci88 Місяць тому +6

      @@Ugabunga999 I am literally 1 step away from being homeless. Just saying.

    • @allstar_
      @allstar_ Місяць тому +2

      @@MrPapamaci88 lmao you could say that and people will still insist you are privileged thats the sad part.
      But from experience I can tell people calling out something like that are often the same one who live in big houses and drive fancy cars because they parents had the money :D

    • @ItsDaKoolaidDude
      @ItsDaKoolaidDude Місяць тому +1

      ​@@Ugabunga999says the clearly spoiled.

  • @GothJesus
    @GothJesus Місяць тому +90

    They're not just blocking peopoe on their way to work, there's people going to interviews, going to dates, going to visit dying family/friends, going to births etc

    • @evalyne1105
      @evalyne1105 Місяць тому +15

      This is the most important part. They wouldn’t budge a gif damn foot infront of an ambulance with a dying patient inside. Isn’t this basically murder??? You might as well burn houses at that point but ohhhh nooooo that is a bad thing to do as opposed to blocking the road

    • @badwolf3618
      @badwolf3618 Місяць тому +2

      One time my BIL was late to wotk and got written up because I couldn't get to their place on time to babysit my nephews because people were protesting the RNC event that was at an event center a few blocks away. They were blocking streets and entrances to any parkin ramps that they thought might have Republican attendees of the RNC event parking in those ramps.

  • @TheAttendee
    @TheAttendee Місяць тому +4

    "The roads blocked? Jeeves, get the helicopter." - Some oil exec, probably

  • @desmien679
    @desmien679 Місяць тому +3

    Would like to point out 2 things, first some of the protests that are happening are similar to some that occurred during the industrial revolution. Workers would protest in the work place to prevent work getting done by those who were brought on to replace those protesting. It was made illegal to do this type of protest due to multiple factors. It's also illegal to do it in the middle of the street in part because of safety reasons.
    Second, the Boston tea party wasn't just in protesting the English crown but it was in protesting something that was occurring throughout all British colonies. The raw materials were being shipped to England and finished product shipped and sold back to the colonies. In fact a number of colonies such as India were prohibited from making certain products such as homespun clothing. They threw tea into the ocean in protesting this practice since the tea was being manufactured in England but grown in other colonies.
    People are protesting films and games by not buying or playing them. I've been to a couple protests in the late 90s-early 2000s outside of a federal building in Los Angeles that in part was also a rave. These were both done legally.

  • @AMediumSizedKodiak
    @AMediumSizedKodiak Місяць тому +205

    “Protests are supposed to be disruptive, that’s their entire point” literally the first sentence into his argument and he is incorrect 😂

    • @npcimknot958
      @npcimknot958 Місяць тому +19

      Guy thinks hes like the tainamen square tank guy😂😂 like.. peolpe here really have no idea how good they have it.

    • @bencastor9207
      @bencastor9207 Місяць тому +15

      I tried to make this exact point but my comment got shadowbanned again. So I'll just comment here stating that you are correct, dude immediately proved he has no idea what he's talking about

    • @pierre-louisgil3404
      @pierre-louisgil3404 Місяць тому +5

      He isn't technically incorrect.
      A protest is supposed to be disruptive toward the company/government you are protesting against (it can be because you are an employee of said company/government or because you are exposing their actions).
      What is incorrect is to suppose that you must be disruptive to anyone and anything.
      In France, (I think it's the same in the USA) you can protest as long as you do not actively disrupt the people not protesting (you cannot block the entrance of a company). However, you can be on the road as long as you stay inside the perimeter that you are stating when you inform the government (the government must accept the protest however which they usually do).

    • @PRWPanda
      @PRWPanda Місяць тому +1

      I've heard that quote time and time again when arguing about "just stop oil" protests and I still don't understand where they are coming from. You are making people unsympathetic to your cause by inconveniencing them/pissing them off. Sure you get more attention but until you actually target your protests properly, nobody is going to take your points seriously.

    • @chexmixkitty
      @chexmixkitty Місяць тому

      He watches too much AOC

  • @Luna0wl
    @Luna0wl Місяць тому +833

    TikTok cooked a generation

    • @mufasafalldown8401
      @mufasafalldown8401 Місяць тому +46

      Absolutely.

    • @Ecco_The_Dolphin
      @Ecco_The_Dolphin Місяць тому +58

      To a crisp

    • @potatoslice-tv5rw
      @potatoslice-tv5rw Місяць тому +51

      Just ban that shit out honestly

    • @Xfushion2
      @Xfushion2 Місяць тому +36

      @@potatoslice-tv5rw It would only make things worse, TikTok is not an app, it's a type of content and if the App that host said content is banned it would only move to other platforms, mainly UA-cam.
      It's like when Tumblr went down and all their users migrated ro Reddit and Twitter making them more insufferable than they already were, or when Vine went out and _gems_ like the Paul brothers moved to UA-cam.
      There's no ridding said content, that's why Tiktok should not get ban because it's true value it's that it's cringe it's contained.

    • @Alphascrub_77
      @Alphascrub_77 Місяць тому

      @@potatoslice-tv5rw I dont care for the government's TikTok ban. Not because I support TikTok-it's terrible. But the ban feels like US tech companies pushing to eliminate their biggest foreign rival by lobbying the government. If the US government we're truly concerned with China using their products against the US and its populace we should scrutinize all Chinese-made infrastructure and household smart devices, not just TikTok.
      Also I'm not not a fan of government censorship and this could spring board for of that.

  • @RichardAlaskanforaPassing
    @RichardAlaskanforaPassing 17 днів тому +1

    There are different degrees of being disruptive. Also being disruptive to a group of people that has nothing to do with what you are actually protesting, while in fact only get the people you disrupted to hate whatever side you are on.

  • @dislexyc
    @dislexyc Місяць тому +1

    7:25 "they don't real democracy's"
    Wise words, TruthTheTroll

  • @DakotaAP
    @DakotaAP Місяць тому +79

    Instead of standing in a road, gather and protest at your city hall... Where the people that represent you work.

  • @Sadistic626
    @Sadistic626 Місяць тому +62

    I h8 how they all adopt the same exact speaking patterns and cadences... they're literal NPC's.

    • @Jet-ij9zc
      @Jet-ij9zc Місяць тому

      They have to put a dot every few words because their brain is buffering

    • @isaac6077
      @isaac6077 Місяць тому

      Yes watching this whole video really show how little any of u are original… though it does make ot easy to see their roots

    • @squidvis
      @squidvis Місяць тому +1

      I think it's cuz they've spent their ENTIRE lives in school aka daycare. They've never actually been in the real world.
      I have a friend who's been in college for 8 years so far. Is he getting a PHD? No.. He's still working on his bachelor's...
      They just have never lived in reality. That's why their logic is non-existent.

    • @edattacks
      @edattacks 18 днів тому

      ​@@squidvisgood lord 8 years still for bachelor's? 😮

    • @squidvis
      @squidvis 18 днів тому

      @@edattacks Yeah I don't know all the details but he's working some scam with the state of New York since they pay for schooling.

  • @kelwinkwel
    @kelwinkwel Місяць тому +2

    WOW reference?? I went cross eyed - just finish your pop tart bro 😂

  • @DP-bj3jw
    @DP-bj3jw 27 днів тому +1

    If protests are meant to be disruptive then the protestors have to anticipate a negative response from the public.

  • @aznwill12
    @aznwill12 Місяць тому +143

    I work at Walmart and when customers steal to get back at walmart, the manager fires minimum wage employees so that the company is still at a surplus. it's called inventory. When an employee gets to work late due to the protest, it hurts the minimum wage employee more than the manager because the manager gets slightly lower numbers and will eventually decide to fire the employee after inventory. In fact, more than one employee could be fired due to something like this. So while there's no direct one to one of a protest getting someone fired, but there it is.

    • @vergillives9890
      @vergillives9890 Місяць тому +3

      Then stores open later and close earlier to make up for missing staff instead of being 24 hours they close at 10pm then they open at 10am then they close at 8pm and fire more employees then it continues until it shuts down and best case scenario they move their remaining workers to another store if not all fired

    • @ousamadearu5960
      @ousamadearu5960 Місяць тому +13

      ​@@vergillives9890 tell me you haven't entered a job without entering a job.

    • @vergillives9890
      @vergillives9890 Місяць тому

      @@ousamadearu5960 i worked at a restaurant for 14 years and thats how 3 other stores shutdown in the area and came to our restaurant the 4th busiest store in the company and 24 hours i explained how those stores shutdown

    • @atroposmoirai2298
      @atroposmoirai2298 Місяць тому +5

      Used to work at Walmart also.. Work at Amazon now (better pay) In both places you can’t even defend yourself when someone decides to fight you. Straight termination of both places.

    • @xavmanisdabestest
      @xavmanisdabestest Місяць тому +2

      Damn this almost made me not wanna steal from a Walmart. Almost

  • @bernieblack8819
    @bernieblack8819 Місяць тому +440

    Protests are supposed to be disruptive towards the government or organizations being protested, not innocent civilians just trying to live their life

    • @rahn45
      @rahn45 Місяць тому

      It's why the Canadian Trucker protest worked in that it gained public support. They went out of their way to inconvenience the politicians, not normal people working jobs, nor emergency medial services.
      They didn't rob stores and then burn them down.

    • @SnackAte
      @SnackAte Місяць тому +12

      I hate those protests as much as the next guy but disrupting traffic and daily business does affect the government and organizations.

    • @rahn45
      @rahn45 Місяць тому +89

      @@SnackAte The Canadian Truckers targeted the government only, that's why their protest worked; and why every other one turns the public against them.

    • @bernieblack8819
      @bernieblack8819 Місяць тому +62

      @@SnackAte There are much more direct ways to target the government organizations then by going through civilians who have nothing to do with your protest

    • @SnackAte
      @SnackAte Місяць тому +7

      @@rahn45 Might be wrong here since I just read up on that now (very interesting btw) but they also blocked streets in downtown Ottawa. Big difference was that they blocked border checkpoints/trade routes aswell, which takes a bit more resources than the average protest. They also inconvenienced the public, it was just a cause more easily rallied behind.

  • @rampart5631
    @rampart5631 Місяць тому +1

    This is more along the lines of killing every hoard player just cause two guilds are fighting. Someone just doing regular questing getting caught in random cross fire

  • @mpxz999
    @mpxz999 14 днів тому +1

    Disrupting someones livelyhood is a GREAT WAY to make them upset with you AND your cause.
    Protest within the boundaries of the law to SPREAD YOUR MESSAGE, nothing more!
    This is a major issue with activists these days.

  • @njdss4
    @njdss4 Місяць тому +484

    I couldn't even make it 30 seconds into the video before the TikToker said something completely idiotic and wrong. "Protests are supposed to be disruptive". No, they're not. They're meant to be public demonstrations of opposition or support of something. I hate it when these extremists try to redefine words to excuse their shitty behavior.

    • @yScribblezHD
      @yScribblezHD Місяць тому +21

      Completely wrong. Even just chanting in the street is inherently disruptive. If people are gathering in public in any capacity, especially in the hundreds, it is inherently disruptive. I live by a venue that seats a few hundred people, and I can promise you even in an indoor and regular scenario when an event is going on it's disruptive to the surrounding area. If you can sort out how 100, or 200, or 500 people or even more doing literally ANYTHING in unison in a public space can be non disruptive you my friend should apply to your local city planning institutions immediately.
      That's completely setting aside whether the AIM of a protest is to be disruptive, it is entirely clear that at any semi significant scale it is pretty much inherent, especially if you consider it downstream from other inherent aspects of a protests (such as being a public demonstration as you mentioned).

    • @Luckystarzz216
      @Luckystarzz216 Місяць тому +108

      @@yScribblezHD There are laws, for example noise ordinances. So no, you couldn't chant to be disruptive for example at 2am. Society has already agreed on these rules.

    • @Vaguer_Weevil
      @Vaguer_Weevil Місяць тому +57

      ​@@yScribblezHD
      I live near a school, and further away is a sports field. I walk home and pass them both, on the way home I hear kids playing in the playground and guys cheering eachother as they play football. They are all loud, but they aren't "trying" to be disruptive. Or are these people also protesting something?

    • @Rai2M
      @Rai2M Місяць тому +34

      @@yScribblezHD Okay, forbid any celebrations then.

    • @reinsmano
      @reinsmano Місяць тому +18

      Just like when they say “Everything is political” when you complain about wokeness in media. Acting like political struggle for the senate by palpatine in Star Wars is the same as making every superhero gay is disingenuous. But in both cases, if they don’t minimize their actions they become harder to defend

  • @user-df4hv2io9l
    @user-df4hv2io9l Місяць тому +55

    That world of Warcraft analogy is incorrect. Because what the alliance players would do is ddos the horde player so they can't play the game at all and so they can't farm. That would be a correct comparison

  • @Thomasfoolery69
    @Thomasfoolery69 Місяць тому +3

    How many other tiktoks do you think have the same format and said the same things. These people just parrot each others words and movements.

  • @Tall_Order
    @Tall_Order Місяць тому +2

    Protests being "Disruptive" is counterintuitive to their cause, because it turns everyone against them and their message. The more annoying they are, the more people associate them with other annoyances they can't stand. And that's not a good thing, no matter how much they claim it is, because you can't anger someone to the point they will join your cause just to shut you up... That doesn't make sense. It just makes them wish you weren't there. And some people act out on that... By hitting the accelerator...

  • @nathanhargenrader645
    @nathanhargenrader645 Місяць тому +114

    It’s so clear this dude didn’t even look up Asmond full stance. He instantly walks right into Asmond whole point with the Boston tea party. His point was you should disrupt and protest the thing that is wrong. In the case of the tea party the tea was being taxed without representation so they tossed the tea into the harbor. Last time I checked the road and the people commuting on it are not the ones you are protesting

    • @mugi_c4420
      @mugi_c4420 Місяць тому

      Would you say the same thing to MLK who used the same tactics

    • @steeltownweb
      @steeltownweb Місяць тому +24

      ​@@mugi_c4420
      Considering the people oppressing the black people were the white people in the cars they were blocking, yes. I would.
      The people your blocking on the road are average citizens, not the people causing the problems. Their not the Israeli government, nor are they the politicians who are sending funds to Isreal.
      Go protest at the mayor's office, or protest in the capital. Your protest needs to make sense. Blocking random people in traffic and fucking up their lives doesn't make sense, and actively hurts your cause multitudes more than it helps.

    • @IsaacMSingleton1
      @IsaacMSingleton1 Місяць тому +16

      ​​@@steeltownwebreally shows how much these kids pay attention in school compared to paying attention to woke idiots in Tik Tok.

    • @dan4500
      @dan4500 Місяць тому +12

      ​@@mugi_c4420get back here and counter argue his point, he basically destroyed you. Now I want to see the response, or delete the post 😂😂

    • @gungrave254
      @gungrave254 Місяць тому +4

      ​@dan4500 Nooo. Don't delete. Evidence of stupidity must be preserved for others to learn from.

  • @FNXTransmissions
    @FNXTransmissions Місяць тому +243

    Sure, protests should be disruptive, but disruptive towards who?
    - The average joe who's trying to make ends meet.
    - The politicians who have the power.
    - The people you are protesting against.
    One of these is not like the other, guess which...

    • @Victor-oy8bj
      @Victor-oy8bj Місяць тому +1

      no asmongold is wrong. the whole point is breaking the law. if a country has a law that states: no protesting or boycotting, then the people cannot do anything to change the system without breaking the law

    • @RedMage117
      @RedMage117 Місяць тому +70

      ​@@Victor-oy8bj Except we don't have that law. Blocking traffic is the law they're breaking. They are allowed to protest civilly but instead choose to block roads. Disregarding the fact that this is illegal, it is stupid. You are not hurting the government, you're hurting your fellow citizens. So what is the endgame? He says it hurts via taxes...so is the plan to block all roads and stop all economic activity and cause everyone to shut down business and lose their jobs? You are then the enemy of everyone at that point.

    • @benginaldclocker2891
      @benginaldclocker2891 Місяць тому +29

      ​@@RedMage117 you're talking to a guy who copypasted his comment to the other comments in this video

    • @Victor-oy8bj
      @Victor-oy8bj Місяць тому +1

      @@RedMage117 it shouldnt be hurting the citizens. by causing workers to be late to work it forces bigger companies to address and change things so people stop protesting. workers who are late from work have an excuse bc theres nothing they could do. workers late to work cuts down on productivity and makes the bigger company make a change so people stop coming late to work.

    • @piboy7454
      @piboy7454 Місяць тому +10

      This guys a bot I swear.

  • @Roloki454
    @Roloki454 14 днів тому +1

    The Boston tea party example is dumb cause that’s specifically spiting the people they’re protesting against. We’re talking about being a straight up nuisance to normal people because you want to annoy them till they’re slamming their heads against their wheels out of frustration and go along with what you say to get you to leave which isn’t gonna happen.

  • @dmitriyobidin6049
    @dmitriyobidin6049 Місяць тому +2

    What those people don't understand, is that in a bigger picture there will be no difference in budget income at the end of the year, whether they block the traffic or not. Money will just go through different flow...

  • @Starcraftvidsandsuch
    @Starcraftvidsandsuch Місяць тому +299

    There is nothing more American than this tik tok guy. Sitting thousands of miles away from an issue or conflict, having never been in that area of the world (or out of this country for most) and, using secondhand info to passionately argue. Stars and Bars baby. Gotta love the comfort we have in the USA.

    • @MrOBJECTIVEOBSERVER
      @MrOBJECTIVEOBSERVER Місяць тому

      ummm our tax dollars are going to the conflict - you can see plenty of first hand coverage of it on the internet. You have to have been in a region to have an opinion on conflict your tax dollars are going towards? Dont be silly.

    • @auscaliber1
      @auscaliber1 Місяць тому +65

      not to mention he couldnt even put his half eaten food down to lecture us

    • @Ecliptor.
      @Ecliptor. Місяць тому

      Protest aside, you do know Israel is basically deleting Gaza and everyone inside at this point, right? Around 38k civilians, which include 15k children (source from sites like Oxfam or ReliefWeb). At which point can we say maybe they shouldn't do that?

    • @interstellardave
      @interstellardave Місяць тому

      So true. He’s anti-Israel, which is fine. I would not call Israel innocent of terrible deeds here. But there’s no doubt in my mind that he is not anti-Hamas. Probably pro Hamas, actually. He does not care about money being pumped into Palestine, where it’s known the money goes to Hamas, and funds their terrorist activities. It’s a horrible situation wherein a terrorist group has their bases of operations in civilian areas! It’s not as simple as these protesters think.

    • @hiho9149
      @hiho9149 Місяць тому +8

      To be fair, he brings up government aid offered to these countries, which affects where his tax money goes. I doubt most of the protesters want something changed inside their own country, though.

  • @nerojay2105
    @nerojay2105 Місяць тому +347

    His analogy is braindead because either the players behaviour is within the games rules and should be allowed or is against the games rules and shouldn’t be allowed… blocking traffic is against the law (the games rules) and therefore shouldn’t be allowed.

    • @wdf70
      @wdf70 Місяць тому +26

      His analogy is also bad because bruiseweed is wildly available in a lot of zones both horde AND alliance controlled. So even on a pvp server, it's a non-issue. Even if you have a griefer, it's not going to stop people from gathering bruiseweed as beyond the timer to gather, no loot is dropped on death. And scalpers are just going to control the market anyway so...
      Dude just has no idea how the game is played lol.

    • @Stevo.100
      @Stevo.100 Місяць тому +8

      I didn't really understand the comparison but does it even compare to protesting? How does stopping people from getting an item in a game in anyway compare to stopping people getting to work when they have nothing to do with what you're protesting about?

    • @duyvan247
      @duyvan247 Місяць тому +27

      @@Stevo.100 stopping people getting to work should be close as DDOS the whole fucking server, not just stopping people from getting an item

    • @techead23
      @techead23 Місяць тому +3

      @@wdf70 He probably doesn't play WoW, and just got some facts from a wiki or something

    • @srambrero
      @srambrero Місяць тому +1

      is supporting genocide and vetoing cease fire to stop it within or against the rules? and what if your "democratic" corrupt government just ignores you? you just peacefully protest see it doesnt work and go home while tens of thousands of people keep dying?

  • @jakobchristiansson
    @jakobchristiansson 7 днів тому +1

    The Boston Tea Party also hurt the British trade far more than their own people. They wanted tea sure, but not as much as the British wanted the money for selling the tea. Which was one of the more expensive goods at the time. Their actions disrupted the actions of their target, as opposed to disrupting everyone who happens to pass by... When you are blocking the road so that minimum wage Susan can't get to her job, or even worse when an ambulance can't get to the hospital because these cretins block the road, they aren't disrupting the Israeli government, they are just hurting their own community.

  • @Holy_Grapefruit
    @Holy_Grapefruit 27 днів тому +1

    Also let’s be honest. If you want to protest and be disruptive, you also have to be prepared for the consequences.

  • @nerdSlayerstudioss
    @nerdSlayerstudioss Місяць тому +25

    The most important part of protests, is the organizing and message behind them. If you are harming innocent civilians trying to get on with their life, you aren't actually doing either of those things (no organization, no message).

    • @Void6-
      @Void6- Місяць тому +4

      Yeah the effect is actually the opposite. You make people hate whatever you are protesting for

  • @KevinZimmerman360
    @KevinZimmerman360 Місяць тому +170

    I can say with 100% certainty that the bro used ChatGPT to make the WoW analogy.

    • @gusrockes
      @gusrockes Місяць тому +42

      It's not even a good analogy.

    • @ViktoriyaZolotovolosyy
      @ViktoriyaZolotovolosyy Місяць тому

      lol i bet they scared to protesting in white house, embassy or president house because they know they will get shot by secret police, of course they choose the weakest one which is civilian

    • @Nen_niN
      @Nen_niN Місяць тому +6

      @@gusrockes neither did Kevin claim it was. You're not smart for benig able to parrot.

    • @tukos7370
      @tukos7370 Місяць тому +5

      It's all convoluted tiktok tankie babble.

    • @prophet_3692
      @prophet_3692 Місяць тому

      whats your opinion on Bruiseweed?

  • @pliyo
    @pliyo Місяць тому

    The wow ost sounding mid way through the video was top. Well done, editor, very well done!

  • @Mystic1011
    @Mystic1011 Місяць тому +49

    "I'm going to commit crimes because I'm angry at things in the government" Good job. That's how wars start

    • @kalechips5972
      @kalechips5972 19 днів тому +2

      Wars aren't always the worse option though.

    • @KookoCraft
      @KookoCraft 17 днів тому +2

      @@kalechips5972 you have an anime profile, calm down 😂

    • @KookoCraft
      @KookoCraft 17 днів тому

      @@kalechips5972anime pfp😂, like u know what war is

    • @kalechips5972
      @kalechips5972 17 днів тому +2

      @KookoCraft Is that supposed to be some epic own. Simply liking something? I'm not really sure that's the win you think it is buddy.
      Besides, you type like a middle schooler, and you unironically use emojis.

    • @KookoCraft
      @KookoCraft 17 днів тому

      @@kalechips5972 you seem like you don’t talk to many people. Maybe get out more and practice those social skills

  • @nickf2657
    @nickf2657 Місяць тому +282

    There are legal ways to protest. Blocking public roads IS NOT one of those ways. Period.

    • @IncognitoActivado
      @IncognitoActivado Місяць тому +3

      Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand you lose. XD

    • @mr.m2659
      @mr.m2659 Місяць тому +12

      Legal protesting has not accomplished anything ever

    • @Vss077
      @Vss077 Місяць тому +36

      ​@@mr.m2659so illegal protesting is justified and will accomplish anything? It worked well when they raided & in their minds "protested" the Capitol. huh

    • @Hath.0
      @Hath.0 Місяць тому

      ​@@mr.m2659cards playing in traffic are really reaching the hearts and minds of the communities public trying to get to work. These protest are effecting normal citizens who have no say or power in anything the protesters want changed. Go protest in the rose garden, not block a street.

    • @Zaes223
      @Zaes223 Місяць тому +36

      @@mr.m2659 If you're going to break a law during a protest you should break a law that has something to do with what you're protesting. Gandhi broke the salt laws MLK broke segregation laws it was all logical. Standing in the road isn't a logical protest of Israel in Gaza. You're drawing attention away from what it is your protesting by standing in the road now people are arguing about that. Its all just very short sighted and illogical.

  • @chibuezeezike5372
    @chibuezeezike5372 Місяць тому +1

    The thing is that people don’t think about why you need a permit to block the road. What if someone gets fired and now has to desperately look for a job in order to feed his family. What if a pregnant woman is forced to give birth on the road because she can’t make it to the hospital. What if someone dies in an ambulance truck because the ambulance can’t make it to the hospital. What if someone dies in a house fire because the fire truck can’t get to them in time. What if you get ran over because someone didn’t see you protesting on the road and couldn’t stop in time. People need to think before they go and block the street for a conflict that has been going on for generations.

  • @sarahgould5435
    @sarahgould5435 Місяць тому +1

    "Oh, that's fine. I'm getting views out of it, too." 😂 Gosh, I love creators with this attitude.

  • @Sanguiris
    @Sanguiris Місяць тому +50

    I love how they think this will somehow make the people they're blocking on the road sympathize with them instead of hate them even more

    • @badwolf3618
      @badwolf3618 Місяць тому +1

      I have never, and will never vote Republican, but I specifically didn't vote for Obama in 2008 because my BIL got written up for being late to work because I couldn't get to his place on time to babysit my nephews (so that he could go to work) because leftist protestors were blocking streets and parking ramps near the event center where the RNC event was being hosted. Not only did they feel entitled to make people late to work, but they felt entitled to stop people from attending a legally organized event that they are legally allowed to go to. So fucked up

  • @Sadtv12
    @Sadtv12 Місяць тому +43

    This guy: "well blocking random people in the street is the analogous to the alliance guild disrupting horde guild's supply lines."
    Bruh, the dude trying to get to his shift as a waiter or go to a class they paid to take isn't even in the horde guild. They are just some random dude doing dailies and maybe gathering a flower because its shiny. Even if you stretch your logic to the point where you say they are funding Israel through taxes (which they have almost no individual say over), you are screwing random people over just to stop a Quarter from making its way over to Israel.

    • @ryanmiller7358
      @ryanmiller7358 Місяць тому

      Whats funny about this is the way that these things are directly funded are not tax dollars but through the federal reserve banking system. Everyone knows these smuglets dont have the audacity to go protest there.

    • @Superabound2
      @Superabound2 Місяць тому

      They don't like people funding Israel with taxes, but then every single one of them will vote for Democrats who raise their taxes and send more money to Israel

  • @guardianv5846
    @guardianv5846 13 днів тому

    #3. The tea party was specifically about the tax on the tea, and rather than just steal it, they decided to get rid of it.
    #4. Afterwards they cleaned up after themselves so that some deck worker didn't have to pay for their actions.

  • @Mr-Snrub
    @Mr-Snrub Місяць тому +2

    The Boston Tea Party was aimed at the British East India Company in response to the Tea Act of 1773. The British East India Company was a public and State Owned Enterprise. This means it was a publicly traded company but was owned by a government entity, creating profit for the monarchy of Great Britian. The protest both directly reflected the views of the group and effected the entity in which it was protesting. Comparing this to people blocking the streets in the U.S. and effecting the lives of regular Americans to protest what's happening in another country shows this man has no idea what he is talking about.

  • @Goatfer
    @Goatfer Місяць тому +74

    Only time blocking the road would be relevent is if you were protesting the road itself.

    • @Arcademan09
      @Arcademan09 Місяць тому +10

      Or at the very least maybe a road that leads to a specific location

    • @Hath.0
      @Hath.0 Місяць тому

      Not really, it wouldn't effect the road. Only travelers using the road.

    • @ZeallustImmortal
      @ZeallustImmortal Місяць тому +7

      ​@@Hath.0Think for 2 seconds

    • @freefalling4271
      @freefalling4271 Місяць тому +3

      @@Hath.0re-read your 2 statements, but slower.

    • @ChristofferViken
      @ChristofferViken Місяць тому

      @@Arcademan09 The location, or you are protesting the users of the road.

  • @axelbruv
    @axelbruv Місяць тому +25

    The annoying this about this is the way the man speaks. He has every right to voice his opinion, but doing so with the most patronising delivery he can manage makes me want to switch him off.

  • @AaronBGaming
    @AaronBGaming Місяць тому

    When these people are stuck in their car behind a crowd of people in the road and there's like 30 cars behind them you've effectively held a random person ransom lol

  • @Exile_Sky
    @Exile_Sky Місяць тому

    3:04 A second thing to note was that the crown had specifically placed a higher tax on tea. Thus tea being targeted for the loss.

  • @chogan73
    @chogan73 Місяць тому +21

    I protested against the protestors by stealing tvs at my local best buy

  • @zohawn4398
    @zohawn4398 Місяць тому +122

    That's a great way to get people on your side..inconvience them in every way possible.

    • @Vultain
      @Vultain Місяць тому +13

      Exactly, it's like you don't want people empathetic towards your cause.
      Trying to cause that kind of negativity and I guarantee that they will be telling every friend, family, acquaintance and possibly clients or customers and trying to get them not to support your cause in any way shape or form!

    • @user-zj6tl2jt9h
      @user-zj6tl2jt9h Місяць тому +4

      I understand it as most of these folks are desperate for meaning in world with high static, making a fool of yourself gets you views. It's a fine line between being heard and being disruptive. They should've chose another avenue to voice their position.

    • @Vultain
      @Vultain Місяць тому

      @@user-zj6tl2jt9h Agreed, I think it's how they go about things that is the issue. The old adage good idea maybe? Improper execution of said idea most definitely.
      You have to apply critical thinking. For instance in this situation #1 is this a legal way to go about it? How am I positively or negatively impacting others from this? How will I(myself), my cause benefit from this?
      The way I look at what they are doing. Someone had an idea on how to protest, no one questioned it or gave it critical thought and instead jumped straight to action.
      I think getting views and negative attention is all it received. But maybe it was more for negative attention? People sometimes lie to themselves exactly what it is they want. Even subconsciously. Even when they tell the truth a proper solution or the ability to make a difference the right way is far more difficult than taking the wrong way out.

    • @Tijuanabill
      @Tijuanabill Місяць тому +2

      Almost like being disruptive IS the real cause.....

    • @takumifujiwara9181
      @takumifujiwara9181 Місяць тому +2

      I was in Seattle during Chaz and nothing made me rage more than ppl blocking police and ambulances trying to respond to calls. Its not just ppl going to work you're blocking its also emergency responders.

  • @ShinKamaitachi
    @ShinKamaitachi 27 днів тому +1

    What the modern-day protesters in America are less protesters and more public nuisance. Honestly I've seen people protest what they do isn't protesting

  • @dragons_red
    @dragons_red 2 дні тому

    These are "to raise awareness" protests, but they forgot that annoying the people they are trying to do this to is self defeating

  • @Vod_MacDuff
    @Vod_MacDuff Місяць тому +42

    Fun fact: The founding fathers made the people who participated in the Boston Tea party, pay for the tea they destroyed.

  • @ZhaneBadguy
    @ZhaneBadguy Місяць тому +38

    Why do people who can't change anything disrupt people that have nothing to do with it? All you do is making the big corporation replace that guy that came to late because of you.

    • @electroninja8768
      @electroninja8768 Місяць тому

      Eventually the corporation will run out of people to replace the guy with. Who would want to go through all the work to be hired, knowing he would be fired less than a week later?
      The best way to protest any corporation is through attrition. While this can take the form of boycotts, there are other ways it can be done as well. Granted recently, the government has started just giving free money to companies that are losing money from protests and boycotts, just so they can stay in business. Which is some pretty messed up levels of cronyism.

  • @darkmega97
    @darkmega97 Місяць тому

    I feel like the main thing is that their idea of a protest is to inconvenience a bunch of people that have nothing to do with the issue.

  • @LordUzaki
    @LordUzaki Місяць тому

    The idea of making protest disruptive is a double edged sword that always cuts the wielder. Blocking traffic to protest something will for sure be disruptive enough to garner attention, yes. However, the people you are disrupting and the way in which you disrupt them will not endear them to your cause. Infact, it does the opposite. Your disruption to their activities only works to make them more angry AT YOU, and as a result, you actively create more enemies to your cause. People will quite literally begin to hate your cause if for no other reason than the fact that your protests fuck with them.

  • @Hadeks_Marow
    @Hadeks_Marow Місяць тому +15

    The only difference between a riot and a protest is that the main person effected by a protest is the intended target. Meanwhile in a riot, the main person effected by it is everyone else. If your "protest" is "disrupting" the average citizen MORE than it is the person/group you are "protesting" against, then you are NOT protesting, you are rioting.

  • @detectiveduck1577
    @detectiveduck1577 Місяць тому +16

    Im glad tiktoks getting banned because this level of brainrot is unbelievable

  • @Foefii
    @Foefii Місяць тому

    „You can‘t fight stupidity with logic, they can‘t understand that.“
    ~ Sun Tzu

  • @tonysolar284
    @tonysolar284 Місяць тому +1

    2:08 Unless you're a felon convict.

  • @Oaverso
    @Oaverso Місяць тому +81

    People miss the point that a protest is a negotiation. If you have no leverage whatsoever, you're just disturbing people for no reason.

    • @TheZeagon
      @TheZeagon Місяць тому +3

      I thought a protest is about spreading awareness lmao

    • @sgtmonkeypirate
      @sgtmonkeypirate Місяць тому +1

      @@TheZeagonI think it’s half what the other guy said half what you say.

    • @ETBrooD
      @ETBrooD Місяць тому +1

      It's not for negotiation at all, it's to raise awareness. Protests happen because negotiation failed.

    • @Oaverso
      @Oaverso Місяць тому +4

      @@ETBrooD protests are a forced negotiation. It's crazy that even protestors don't understand the reason why they are protesting. Ultimately what protestors seek is change, right?
      So, again, by standing on a street you have no leverage to get to your goal. If "raising awareness" was the intent, it'd probably be more succesful just making a post on X or a video on UA-cam, since it'd have worldwide reach.

    • @chongwillson972
      @chongwillson972 Місяць тому +1

      @@Oaverso
      or hell I don't know, making signs, protesting on a street corner, organizing a proper protest with signs and chants going on a tour of the town weekly.