Climate Protesters blockade the road to burning man, stranding miles of cars in the middle of nowhere in the heat of the desert endangering lives, Indian Reservation Rangers ram blockade ( youtu.be )

Kolanaki , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Are they protesting the actual burning of the wooden man, like that’s a huge environmental hazard? Have they not heard of forest fires?

Ton of the people blocked are in trucks and off-road vehicles in a desert. Go around the dipshits? Surely your trucks can handle being off road for 10 feet.

wesker , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I can’t speak for the sand in that area personally, but it’s quite possible that trying to drive in it won’t get you far before you need to be towed out of it. Maybe someone can chime in, that’s taken that route.

Scary_le_Poo OP , 9 months ago

They started blocking the way around too. Additionally, why should people risk damaging their own vehicles just because of the selfishness of a few assholes?

BennyHill , 9 months ago

Man that reason I made up for why they are protesting sure makes these protesters dumb.

Maybe it’s because you got 80.000 tech bros and other rich assholes driving hundreds of miles in gas guzzling trucks and RVs to have a bourgeoisie orgy and leave a huge mess behind.

nvermind , 9 months ago

The protesters were actually focusing on the people who fly their private jets into burning man. IIRC Burning man has a private airstrip and celebrities will fly in on the jets, which is environmentally terrible and goes against the ethos of the group.

The protesters were blockading the road calling on BM to ban private jets from the event. As well as a few other demands.

Kolanaki , 9 months ago

Man that reason I made up for why they are protesting sure makes these protesters dumb.

You understand that a “?” means it’s a question, right? It wasn’t posed as a fact. 🤦‍♂️

jarfil , 9 months ago

Use the /s man, use the /s!

Or this, either works:

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/a31aa29e-13f8-4b15-8abf-6991894f81aa.webp

… /s

Scary_le_Poo OP , 9 months ago

It isn’t flat in that area. Lots of small embankments.

jarfil , 9 months ago

Maybe they’re “city” off-road vehicles… for show, not for actual use off-road… /s