The country’s main farming unions want to pressure MPs into re-authorising a neurotoxic insecticide accused of causing massive bee and pollinator die-offs.

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    Ah double standards, farmers are apparently in their right to block a highway but god forbid you would block a highway for a climate protest.

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      It’s crazy how the word Ecoterrorist got associated with the people trying to save the world instead of oil executives

      Intrusive protest is always valid

      Violent protest is always valid

      Protest is always valid

      People who say otherwise are cowards and bootlickers.

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        Protest is always valid

        I wouldn’t go that far. Protests can absolutely be used to subvert true opposition by funneling it via astroturfing and similar fake campaigns into ineffective channels.

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          Absolutely,valid protest is valid. But it’s not the act of protesting that makes someone right. I understand the farmers in that they get a tool taken from them that saved them a lot of time, and they probably have long term contracts with the companies selling that stuff. However they are objectively wrong to push for a product that is this harmful.

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    Demanding a short term fix from the government that will cause issues in the long term that they’ll also demand from the government to fix and compensate.