This was a Critical Mass event, which is why the bicyclists are taking up all of the street as a way to reclaim the streets and protest the lack of safety for riders under usual conditions. It’s not legal, but protests are never useful if they’re fully legal now, are they.

  • Affidavit@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I don’t like cars, but this is fucking bonkers. Trapping people in place isn’t ‘protesting’, it’s being a twat.

    All the people claiming that this is a legitimate protest surely understand that the car driver was only ‘counterprotesting’, right?

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      5 hours ago

      Trapping people in place isn’t ‘protesting’,

      Have you ever seen any protests? How do you think they work lol

      FFS we close our streets for less important things like construction, marathons, parades.

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      Only protest where no one is inconvenienced and you can easily be ignored, mkay?

      What’s fucking bonkers is car infrastructure. Highways trap me in place all the time when I want to talk a a walk or cycle.