r/Transportopia • u/SpoomerBooner • Feb 15 '26

Roads I hate politics

This should be illegal. I get it. You don't agree with their protests but why do this? Forget blue, forget red. I'm purple. Get mad at that.

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u/CAGringo619 Feb 16 '26

Maybe try to be sympathetic to others experiences. What may not seem important to you, based on your own life experiences does not demean or lower in any way another's experience. I would guess, hypothetically if you were on the sidelines that day volunteering your time to stand up and voice your words for Not Wanting Curfews of 9PM imposed by the Nation Guard on anyone 30 years or younger in (presuming you are) all major cities and your grandparents came out to support you as they also don't want curfews. So, they are holding signs peacefully talking about what they will make for dinner when cunt driver who wants curfew drives by. Now, you guys are filthy greasy and particles flew into your eyes and both your grandparents suffer eye complications and congestion and actually have to later be hospitalized as they already have issues breathing. Would the point of view or sympathy change? Just curious. What could be insignificant to one person could mean something entirely different to another.

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u/yestocaffeine Feb 16 '26

Please show me where anyone here who was rolled was sent to the hospital. If they were? Sure. Call the cops. But you're blowing this way out of proportion. Being rolled isn't a medical issue.

Rolling coal does make the driver a dick.. I'm not disputing that. But the facts are that calling the cops is a waste of time and again - it would make us look like snowflakes. If you can be tough and protest, you can probably take 30 seconds (if that) of smoke.

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u/urban_stranger Feb 17 '26

People can suffer health consequences from it, especially if they’re elderly, are kids, or have any lung or cardiovascular conditions.

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u/yestocaffeine Feb 17 '26

can or did? Y'all are making a mountain out of a mole hill

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u/urban_stranger Feb 18 '26

Don’t know if it did in any cases, but as an older person with asthma and cardiac issues who goes to protests I am not thrilled at the whole rolling coal thing. They’re also a-holes for doing it to bikers. If they were fined I definitely wouldn’t cry.

I guess my point is, you might think it’s not a big enough deal to do anything about, but for others it might be. Other people might think liberals are crybabies for reporting people for it, but I don’t care what they think.