Rando Rebellion

So what do Extinction Rebellion thought leaders make of the hordes of online commenters shitting on the diminutive child activist Greta from Sweden? Do you have a plan to win these people over? Because these wankers somehow don't find a determined tiny angry pixie adorable so what are your chances? When you block traffic. When you turn their daily commute into a nightmare are people going to emerge from their vehicles wearing flowing robes to bless you? Are arseholes in traffic who find themselves trapped in traffic going to have a spiritual traffic moment and realise they are were wrong all this time?

Oh yes I see it now. “I am looking at blissed out self righteous folk who have obviously never been bullied. I want to be them. People who have never been punched, slapped or kicked are my role models. People who've never been told to shut up or fuck off are my leaders. I must join them at once.”

I'm saying as an act of radical self care you want to be targeting the enemies of the people instead of the people. You talk about a toxic system but you aren't going after the system. Greta was able find the system and tell it fuck off, why can't you? Mining companies, energy companies, the stock exchange, they all have addresses, they're on a map. Some piece of shit in traffic isn't the system. And if you give him the shits he'll just take it out on children, like Greta from Sweden. Or indigenous people. You haven't targeted the real culprits so you haven't earned the crediblity to target randos. Get a grip.