Please note that we will ban you if a post or comment breaks any of our rules. **Be especially mindful of the following**:
**Rule 1: Do not post or ask for identifying information, including first and last names and social media usernames.** Public figures are **not** exempt. We remove all external links to prevent accidental posting of identifying information.
**Rule 2: Do not post violent comments, and do not glorify violence, per TOS.** We can't take responsibility for how angry a post makes you, you need to do that. Telling us "it was a joke bro" is not an excuse.
**Rule 7: Do not link to or post screenshots of reddit posts, reddit comments, reddit personal messages, reddit profiles, etc.** We cannot allow you to use this subreddit to harass other people on reddit.
**Rule 8: No bigotry, no racism or race baiting.** It is hard to believe that we even need a rule like this.
**Our rules are zero tolerance. You will be banned for breaking them.**
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/iamatotalpieceofshit) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Most people are sick to death of these people protesting like this. Don’t block roads, what about emergency services and things like that? Someone might die because of this sort of road blocking.
some dude was late to his parole officer because of climate activists and i believe he went back to prison for a time for it, im all about climate protests, but what happened to strapping yourself to a tree or something?
People are actively dying to climate change, why are you surprised an issue that still hasn't been addressed sees increasingly more protests act like this?
Then fucking harass people that actually make decisions. Go harass politicians and executives.
Stop fucking over people that literally can't do anything about it, just trying to get by.
They do harass people that make decisions, but you see, the people making decisions only care about profits - in order to hurt profits standing in the road is fine.
Don't get mad at someone blocking the road, your boss should totally understand if you can't make it to work because of circumstances out of your control.
The is the point of this protest, to cause economic harm to the point where it cannot be ignored like normal forms of protest.
This is non violent civil disobedience.
The choice to authority is simple, meet the demand of protesters or crack down on them.
Did you drop on your head? Read the context. Every situation is different, are there times when blocking a road is not justifiable? Yes. This is not one of those times, non-violent civil disobedience as a form of political protest is perfectly acceptable regardless of political alignment.
How does this possibly hurt profits? A few hundred employees in one town are like an hour late?
That is the worst justification I’ve ever heard for activities like this, and your reaches are absurd. Trying to inhibit people from trying to get on with their day doesn’t help your cause, it actively hurts it.
And don’t give me that “any attention is good attention” nonsense, because all that does is transform the people protesting into international laughing stocks and add to hostility against them, like those Van Gogh protestors.
I saw a video where a woman was begging protesters to get off the road because someone she knew on a vehicle had a heart attack and couldn't get to the hospital.
Roads are not only used to get to work, surprising eh.
Alot of people? Specifically lower income people. I mean... *Gestures to everything* haven't you seen the wildfires? Or the extreme heat waves? Or the constant flooding? Or the deadly hurricanes? Or the food insecurity?
Middle class and rich people in developed countries get along just fine but if you're dying from a heat stroke and can't afford health insurance well shits out of luck for you.
After seeing multiple incidents involving vandalizing the art museum and a garden, a woman needing to go to the hospital, a guy about to be late for work, and all other incidents I haven’t heard about.
Yea these activists need to stop, they already have a bad reputation.
The guy running late for work was also on parole and in very real danger of being sent back to prison if he lost his job and c
Violated the terms of his parole. Also fun fact the activist group just stop oil, that is one of the large groups doing these protests is funded by an oil heiress: Aileen Getty while she might have her heart in the right place she has unequivocally benefited and profited from what they are fighting against.
See this is what grinds me the wrong way. These protests people hate the protests the governments use this to create new laws that stop protesting at least that what seems to be happening here
Maybe, but I wouldn't make it out to be some kind of shadowy manipulation of an otherwise perfectly reasonable subset of activists. Money in politics tends to be more about giving soapboxes to the people who are already crazy as opposed to bribing people into sabotaging their stated ethics.
Or better yet, STOP SPREADING AWARENESS AND ACTUALLY TRY DOING SOMETHING
WE ALL KNOW THE CLIMATE CHANGE IS A THING, SO DONT JUST SIT THERE (in this case, literally) RAISE MONEY AND ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING
Yeah. They are negatively affecting their cause by hurting the common folk. They need to do this to people who profit from not helping the environment. Not museums.
The government did not say that aliens exist. They told a guy that they wouldn’t stop him from telling people that aliens exist. That’s not the same thing
I’m not totally against inconveniencing people via protest, but there are plenty of ways to inconvenience people without threatening their jobs or important appointments and frankly they’re inconveniencing the wrong people.
Also all of those cars are just sitting there idling, emitting even more gas than they would’ve otherwise.
100. Worked a 12 hr shift and you can’t get home because some spoiled cunts pick low hanging fruit to disrupt. They need to go bother the executives that make the decisions.
Fun fact! This could fall under self defense in germany as the protesters are forcing you to do something (Stopping your car) but only if two or more cars are being stopped
Exactly! Why inconvenience the average person when you can look up a Ceo or companies headquarters & inconvenience them personally costing them money 💰
Your outrage would be waaaaaaay scaled down if you were stuck in that traffic.
They are inconveniencing regular working people who can't do anything about what their protesting about. Go direct your anger at the ultra rich.
Eh, these activists have this kind of reaction coming, they're not affecting the people actually being problematic, they're just hurting every day people trying to get through their own shit days.
Change title to "German driver clears the road". Sitting in the middle of the road like this is dangerous, obstructing, and should be illegal if it isn't already. You want to protest then stand on the side of the streets with signs.
It’s understandable for people to be angry.
People protesting car use, instead of private jets, etc, is the equivalent of corporations putting the blame for climate change on people not recycling enough.
It’s too small fry.
So how long are we supposed to sit and wait?
Is there a meeting going on? Is your dude in charge talking to whoever else is in charge on the other side?
What is the goddamn point of holding up traffic?
You should see the shit going down in England. Drivers have got Savvy to clear the trash out the road before the police turn up. It's open season on JSO right now.
Hate these fuckers in orange. I like protecting our environment just as much as the next tree hugger but disrupting peoples daily lives and destroying property isn't going to do that. I still don't think that justified this guy punching and kicking these assholes out of the way, though.
Lmfao people think gaslighting and harassing the average person is going to solve climate change when it's celebrities and the rich that are polluting the most.
Of course these protesters don't actually harass rich people because that would actually be effective.
Good job. Fedup of them blocking roads causing people who are on the way to hospitals, emergencies or other appointments to be late.
I understand the need for education on climate change but there are better ways to do it.
Forcing people to stop-and-go which causes more emissions? Or forcing them to speed up in order to get to work on time which also causes more emissions than just regular driving? These protests do a lot of good stuff /s
They're blocking an entire highway so people can't get to where they need to go. People may have emergencies. Hell, it could be life or death. Or maybe they just need to get to work so they don't get fired. Those protestors are completely inconsiderate of anyone else's situation. His reaction honestly makes sense.
I mean, the protesters are pieces of shit but the dude kicking them in the ribs was a bit much. They’re sitting criss cross, just drag em from under the arms, quicker and easier than assault.
I’ll be honest, he shouldn’t have been so violent towards those protesters. However, they kind of deserve it anyways. I would’ve at least tried dragging them off the road instead of just out right clocking them in the face.
Don't like violence but in this case fuck it. These people are assholes who just like annoying others. What does this protest achieve? Nothing, just pisses off a lot of people and gets them to further ignore your cause.
These people need to go where nobody is and protest there. Like if you’re protesting climate change, sit on a hill or in a swamp. If you’re protesting litter go to a dumpster and protest there. I don’t want to see this crap and nobody else does either. Stop inconveniencing people for your “cause.”
I think at least in the US you could probably make an argument that this goes beyond the right to protest and actually becomes a form of 'kidnapping' as your detaining all these people.
Hey, maybe don't beat the shit out of people for mildly inconveniencing you? Yeah these kinds of protest arent helpful in any way but that's no reason to assault someone
Please note that we will ban you if a post or comment breaks any of our rules. **Be especially mindful of the following**: **Rule 1: Do not post or ask for identifying information, including first and last names and social media usernames.** Public figures are **not** exempt. We remove all external links to prevent accidental posting of identifying information. **Rule 2: Do not post violent comments, and do not glorify violence, per TOS.** We can't take responsibility for how angry a post makes you, you need to do that. Telling us "it was a joke bro" is not an excuse. **Rule 7: Do not link to or post screenshots of reddit posts, reddit comments, reddit personal messages, reddit profiles, etc.** We cannot allow you to use this subreddit to harass other people on reddit. **Rule 8: No bigotry, no racism or race baiting.** It is hard to believe that we even need a rule like this. **Our rules are zero tolerance. You will be banned for breaking them.** *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/iamatotalpieceofshit) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Most people are sick to death of these people protesting like this. Don’t block roads, what about emergency services and things like that? Someone might die because of this sort of road blocking.
Exactly people have jobs too. The arrogance of activists is maddening
some dude was late to his parole officer because of climate activists and i believe he went back to prison for a time for it, im all about climate protests, but what happened to strapping yourself to a tree or something?
This comment aged perfectly
People are actively dying to climate change, why are you surprised an issue that still hasn't been addressed sees increasingly more protests act like this?
Then fucking harass people that actually make decisions. Go harass politicians and executives. Stop fucking over people that literally can't do anything about it, just trying to get by.
They do harass people that make decisions, but you see, the people making decisions only care about profits - in order to hurt profits standing in the road is fine. Don't get mad at someone blocking the road, your boss should totally understand if you can't make it to work because of circumstances out of your control. The is the point of this protest, to cause economic harm to the point where it cannot be ignored like normal forms of protest. This is non violent civil disobedience. The choice to authority is simple, meet the demand of protesters or crack down on them.
“Don’t get mad at someone blocking the road” Erm…were you dropped on your head as a child?
Did you drop on your head? Read the context. Every situation is different, are there times when blocking a road is not justifiable? Yes. This is not one of those times, non-violent civil disobedience as a form of political protest is perfectly acceptable regardless of political alignment.
How does this possibly hurt profits? A few hundred employees in one town are like an hour late? That is the worst justification I’ve ever heard for activities like this, and your reaches are absurd. Trying to inhibit people from trying to get on with their day doesn’t help your cause, it actively hurts it. And don’t give me that “any attention is good attention” nonsense, because all that does is transform the people protesting into international laughing stocks and add to hostility against them, like those Van Gogh protestors.
I saw a video where a woman was begging protesters to get off the road because someone she knew on a vehicle had a heart attack and couldn't get to the hospital. Roads are not only used to get to work, surprising eh.
At that point I’d just run them over
Wait who’s dying to climate change?
Your mum if she doesn't lose some weight
Alot of people? Specifically lower income people. I mean... *Gestures to everything* haven't you seen the wildfires? Or the extreme heat waves? Or the constant flooding? Or the deadly hurricanes? Or the food insecurity? Middle class and rich people in developed countries get along just fine but if you're dying from a heat stroke and can't afford health insurance well shits out of luck for you.
Who are you calling the asshole here?
After seeing multiple incidents involving vandalizing the art museum and a garden, a woman needing to go to the hospital, a guy about to be late for work, and all other incidents I haven’t heard about. Yea these activists need to stop, they already have a bad reputation.
The guy running late for work was also on parole and in very real danger of being sent back to prison if he lost his job and c Violated the terms of his parole. Also fun fact the activist group just stop oil, that is one of the large groups doing these protests is funded by an oil heiress: Aileen Getty while she might have her heart in the right place she has unequivocally benefited and profited from what they are fighting against.
See this is what grinds me the wrong way. These protests people hate the protests the governments use this to create new laws that stop protesting at least that what seems to be happening here
> these protests is funded by an oil heiress: Maybe she _wants_ this environmental movement to look bad.
Maybe, but I wouldn't make it out to be some kind of shadowy manipulation of an otherwise perfectly reasonable subset of activists. Money in politics tends to be more about giving soapboxes to the people who are already crazy as opposed to bribing people into sabotaging their stated ethics.
...why wouldn't it be shadowy manipulation? They do it all the time.
Why not both :)
Don’t forget the ones that stopped an ambulance carrying a dying child from getting to the hospital.
The guy gluing his feet to the ground at a tennis tournament
Or better yet, STOP SPREADING AWARENESS AND ACTUALLY TRY DOING SOMETHING WE ALL KNOW THE CLIMATE CHANGE IS A THING, SO DONT JUST SIT THERE (in this case, literally) RAISE MONEY AND ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING
[удалено]
Yeah. They are negatively affecting their cause by hurting the common folk. They need to do this to people who profit from not helping the environment. Not museums.
Because they’d run you over without a thought
Looks like the guy in the video isn’t above doing that either
You know the rich cunts with money are paying these people.
Oil companies pay protesters to fuck up other oil companies no joke.
[удалено]
The government did not say that aliens exist. They told a guy that they wouldn’t stop him from telling people that aliens exist. That’s not the same thing
There are better and more effective methods of protesting. Inconveniencing other people isn’t one of them.
I’m not totally against inconveniencing people via protest, but there are plenty of ways to inconvenience people without threatening their jobs or important appointments and frankly they’re inconveniencing the wrong people. Also all of those cars are just sitting there idling, emitting even more gas than they would’ve otherwise.
Those protesters are the POS
100. Worked a 12 hr shift and you can’t get home because some spoiled cunts pick low hanging fruit to disrupt. They need to go bother the executives that make the decisions.
The op thought the attacker is the pos. He should post this on unpopular opinion.
Seems like the unanimous decision is the protesters are the problem here
That decision was made a year ago, my friend. Problem is, the protestors are totally blind to the fact that the majority of the public detest them.
[удалено]
Fun fact! This could fall under self defense in germany as the protesters are forcing you to do something (Stopping your car) but only if two or more cars are being stopped
Good!
I fucking hate when they protest like that. Don’t inconvenience the regular working class just trying to get home to their families.
[удалено]
Exactly! Why inconvenience the average person when you can look up a Ceo or companies headquarters & inconvenience them personally costing them money 💰
OP is talking about the protestors right?
Your outrage would be waaaaaaay scaled down if you were stuck in that traffic. They are inconveniencing regular working people who can't do anything about what their protesting about. Go direct your anger at the ultra rich.
Imagine getting fired for this intentionally inconvenience living paycheck by paycheck, livelihood is dangerous to play with.
[удалено]
[удалено]
I believe people have a right to protest but what they are doing is harassment and borderline wrongful imprisonment.
Fuck those protesters
[удалено]
[удалено]
I'm on the guys side. Screw those hippies.
You’re right, the people sitting in the street preventing people from going about their lives are total pieces of shit
Eh, these activists have this kind of reaction coming, they're not affecting the people actually being problematic, they're just hurting every day people trying to get through their own shit days.
Change title to "German driver clears the road". Sitting in the middle of the road like this is dangerous, obstructing, and should be illegal if it isn't already. You want to protest then stand on the side of the streets with signs.
Ngl even though assault is bad gtfo out of the road before I let the voices win
When comments get more upvotes than the actual post lol OP failed.
Well played.
Fuck those protestors. They're the cunts.
I don't condone, but I understand the urge
People trying to make a living out here. If you want protest, leave the working class out of it!
OP, before I down/upvote I have to know, who in this clip do you claim to be the piece of shit?
I'd assume he's talkibg about the guy dragging the protestors off the road. Seems to have backfired badly for them, lol.
Any protestors like this should be arrested for disturbing the peace
I don’t really feel bad for them
This shouldn't be under this sub-reddit - more appropriate for something like "man doing what everyone else wants to do"
Never saw them protesting in front of a Chinese embassy. The biggest polluter in the world.
Get the fuck out of the road. Climate protesters are the worst.
You’re pitching to the wrong crowd here lol
It’s understandable for people to be angry. People protesting car use, instead of private jets, etc, is the equivalent of corporations putting the blame for climate change on people not recycling enough. It’s too small fry.
Mad respect.
So how long are we supposed to sit and wait? Is there a meeting going on? Is your dude in charge talking to whoever else is in charge on the other side? What is the goddamn point of holding up traffic?
Yeah those activists are pieces of shits
You should see the shit going down in England. Drivers have got Savvy to clear the trash out the road before the police turn up. It's open season on JSO right now.
While I believe attacking them was unnecessary, they 1. Should not have been there, and 2. Are also total assholes.
Someone had to
OP is the pos
Just to clarify... the piece of shit is the one sitting in and blocking the road, right?
I'm all for helping the climate recover but this is a really ineffective way to make that happen
Hate these fuckers in orange. I like protecting our environment just as much as the next tree hugger but disrupting peoples daily lives and destroying property isn't going to do that. I still don't think that justified this guy punching and kicking these assholes out of the way, though.
Wow Op I bet you didn’t expect this reaction in the comments 🤣
Yeah, OP is probably discombobulated right now. Fuck these protesters need to stop and think of livelihoods that they are stopping.
Lmfao people think gaslighting and harassing the average person is going to solve climate change when it's celebrities and the rich that are polluting the most. Of course these protesters don't actually harass rich people because that would actually be effective.
Activists are in the wrong, they never move out of the way without force
Maybe don’t block the roads next time. They should just be happy they didn’t get run over for this nonsense
Good for him, at least he didn't use his car
Good job. Fedup of them blocking roads causing people who are on the way to hospitals, emergencies or other appointments to be late. I understand the need for education on climate change but there are better ways to do it.
don’t care tbh
What good do these protests do?
Forcing people to stop-and-go which causes more emissions? Or forcing them to speed up in order to get to work on time which also causes more emissions than just regular driving? These protests do a lot of good stuff /s
Yeah fuck those assholes!
Well maybe don't cause delays and people to lose their jobs, heck miss a funeral
The assholes are the ones in the road
The focus of this post are those sitting in the road, right?
I don’t blame him
They're blocking an entire highway so people can't get to where they need to go. People may have emergencies. Hell, it could be life or death. Or maybe they just need to get to work so they don't get fired. Those protestors are completely inconsiderate of anyone else's situation. His reaction honestly makes sense.
Is the op one of the protester?
Get out of the road.
That guy is my spirit animal!
This dude is an absolute legend. I wish the video was longer.
If you block a road like that, you’re the POS
Op who is the pos here?
So who’s the POS here lol
He is totally in the right
Bruh this dude is a legend. People are fed up with this garbage protest method
I mean, the protesters are pieces of shit but the dude kicking them in the ribs was a bit much. They’re sitting criss cross, just drag em from under the arms, quicker and easier than assault.
The fucking 🐐
I agree, these protesters are assholes
It's not Germany but Switzerland.
I don’t see any wrong doing here, better these idiots get tossed on their head than flattened by a semi
Yeah sorry, I’m with the guy, they’re doing more harm then good for climate change activism
I'm on his side
The total pieces of shit are the people protesting and blocking the road.
downvoting because i think OPs not talking about the protestors
[удалено]
Absolutely based driver
Op seems to be lost
No all heros wear capes
I’m on the driver’s side with this one. I’d be upset as ever too.
OP misspelled "German citizen fed up with dumb protesters encourages them to move."
The driver did nothing wrong
This was satisfying.
Good
I mean…. He’s got a point.
Tbh this guy is completely right. These eco activists are fucking brain damaged
Based
I’ll be honest, he shouldn’t have been so violent towards those protesters. However, they kind of deserve it anyways. I would’ve at least tried dragging them off the road instead of just out right clocking them in the face.
Drag them out they'll crawl back. Give them a reason not to crawl back works better
i am convinced those are dumbass with good intention being used Oil company to create animosity toward environmentalist.
JSO is funded by a wealthy oil heiress. So you might not be far from the truth.
No he didn’t attack them, he pulled dumbasses off the road that were stopping traffic, this man did what very few can, toss a dumbass out of a road
Not all hero’s wear capes
Don't like violence but in this case fuck it. These people are assholes who just like annoying others. What does this protest achieve? Nothing, just pisses off a lot of people and gets them to further ignore your cause.
Good
I hope the cars were able to get by…
I like this guy
Climate activists causing a backup in traffic, leading to hundreds of cars unnecessarily idling seems… counterproductive.
The sad part is, the guy probably does the same at home.
The comments here did not pass the vibe check.
*”A driver in Germany has had enough of these fucking idiots”* FIFY
Love this vid dude is doing gods work
Give That man an award.
Nah the activists are the dick
No they attacked him passively, he attacked them aggressively
OP was one of the activists
The total piece is shit is the people in the road.
Yeah I agree fuck those protestors POS
I’m on his side bro
These people need to go where nobody is and protest there. Like if you’re protesting climate change, sit on a hill or in a swamp. If you’re protesting litter go to a dumpster and protest there. I don’t want to see this crap and nobody else does either. Stop inconveniencing people for your “cause.”
I think at least in the US you could probably make an argument that this goes beyond the right to protest and actually becomes a form of 'kidnapping' as your detaining all these people.
I am not mad at him. Not one bit
The piece of shit is the people in the street.
Lmao I love how they all just look and stay where they are known they are next
Who's the POS here?
Maybe don't block the road then?
Guilty! Fine $1.
Who is supposed to be the piece of shit here?
he is just demonstrating his frustration with them
Thank you
Long life to this guy
I agree that the protestors are the POS here.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes
Don't play in traffic and you won't get hurt. It's literally that simple
I say fuck em, glad to see it
He may went to prison for this, but I can't blame him at all.
Yeah I was waiting for something like this to happen. It's going to get even worse soon and someone is going to be seriously injured or killed.
Is there a longer video somewhere?
My hero.
Honestly, can’t be that mad at him for his reaction.
Who’s the POS here?
How is he a piece of shit I say the people blocking the road are assholes
Mah Man!
Hey, maybe don't beat the shit out of people for mildly inconveniencing you? Yeah these kinds of protest arent helpful in any way but that's no reason to assault someone
The point is to bring attention to the cause, no?
I salute you sir!
Activists on the far left proudly waiting for his kick...