I was one of a group of Just Stop Oil activists given the longest-ever UK sentences for peaceful motorway. Six months into my incarceration, this is what I have learned

Not directly related to climate change, but Just Stop Oil has been in the news a lot.

    • Tgo_up@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      I will if I feel like our politicians deserve it. I definitely won’t hold people hostage to try and get them to sympathise with me…

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        1 day ago

        Nobody wants your sympathy, you selfish prick. Politicians will never change their minds, oligarchs will never change their minds. Begging selfish idiots on the internet to please consider changing their minds doesn’t work either. Direct action, it’s all anyone has left.

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          12 hours ago

          You support stopping random people from going where they’re going but I’m the selfish prick…

          Edit: I’m not begging anyone to do anything. I’m arguing with logic… That seems to be aggrevating to people like you.

          Edit2: also I’m not trying to get people’s sympathy. The people protesting are…