Honestly they seem kinda useless to me. Today, they blocked a bridge which just fucked a bunch of normal people over. Everyone I talked to who was affected by it just said it pissed them off and they've now got less interest in XR.

Aside from that they're blocking construction of a high speed rail, and failing miserably. Bunch of builders have to deal with them playing their bongos and climbing trees by the construction site. Feels ineffective.

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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    4 years ago

    Lmao you got a source on that?

    My parents live next door to the guy, never realised he was such a tool.

    • CoralMarks [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Okay, I have to admit I cannot find that quote, so I might have been mistaken there.

      But he did say this:

      [Hallam] has sparked anger in Germany after referring to the Holocaust as “just another fuckery in human history”.
      [...]
      In the interview, due to be published in full on Thursday, Hallam said Germans were being constrained by what he referred to as their obsession with the Holocaust, describing it as a national trauma the extremity of which “can create a paralysis in actually learning the lessons from it”.
      [...]
      When the reporter, Hannah Knuth, suggested to him that the Holocaust stood alone in history in terms of its implementation and scale, Hallam responded: “There are various debates as to whether the Holocaust is unique or not. I know that that’s the conviction in Germany. But with all respect I don’t agree with it.”
      source

      He apologised for his remarks on the holocaust and claims they were taken out of context.