Btw the soup guys now glued themselves to the streets.
Elsewhere, a bycicling woman got hit by a concrete mixer.
The ambulance coming to her rescue got late, due to the traffic jam created by the activists gluing themselves to the streets.
Today, the woman was declared as brain dead.
I will talk about it again, even tho it is not exactly "american politics". But it is a global phenomenon right now happening all over the world and at least JSO receives relevant funding from the US, too.
About the story: Not a lot of it was true.
-LG did not glue themselves to the streets, they climbed on top of a signbridge while police handled the traffic down below. Thus it was always possible for rescue cars to get through. In fact, traffic could pass on one of the three possible lanes at all times.
-LG announced the protest beforehand, so police and emergency cars could easily switch to other routes. The emergency car reached the woman on time and administered aid. It was another vehicle that was called to get the crashed truck off of her that was delayed, because that car is too big to easily pass through traffic and smaller roads, it was stuck for some minutes. But the emergency doctor on the crashsite declared that the vehicle would not have been needed at all and it would not have made any difference.
Basically, LG ensured in their strike that emergency cars would not be delayed (and factually were not). In the freak accident that happened right at the time of the protest, the unlikely scenario occured of a special vehicle to clear debris being called (even tho it was not needed). That is something so unlikely that it is hard to claim the activists needed to take it into account.
Every time a big event like a soccer game or a concert happens, the possibility of delayed emergency vehicle of all kind is much higher and nobody would claim these events are responsible for it. In fact, even a normal bigger protest is going to delay emergency vehicle just like this one, because roads have to be closed off.
Another side of this is that it actually seems to help LG by now. It is just like with the soup. At first lots of people are mad about "destruction of art", then they notice that the claim was a lie and no art was harmed. It is the same this time. The story "LG killed a woman" cannot be upheld and a lot of journalists and politicians have to backpaddle right now, while other people who are not exactly LG fans defend the activists against the lies being told.
This is what I meant before by saying LG tries to create "litmus tests". They are in the centre of hatred of conservatives and rightwingers right now, after this action. Thus leftwing people, even those who blasted them before (Tilo Jung is one example) defend them or at least attack their attackers.
Lots of relevant journalists and even some politicians defend them now to some extent. Their base is pretty furious too, because there were provably false accusations thrown around against them. On a kickstarter that the group started some time ago, there was a bump of around 10k Euro just in the last few days, even tho it stood basically still before.
It is clear the group is growing in numbers and the hatecampaign helps them to get people who are on the fence to join them.
This whole thing is about going through steps of escalation. What will happen when the first of them actually go to jail? Not just for a month, but actually get years long confinement? Then even more of the people who are not supporting their form of protest but support their cause will be drawn onto side, because they see it as an unproportional penalty if these kids have to go to jail over very little while politicians and rich people destroying nature and social systems face no consequences.
You can see that right now if you follow social media and opinion pieces in traditional media closely. A lot of people who do not endorse the group now speak out against the populist hatecampaign that LG faces.
It is exactly the same mechanism as with Trump. Trump says s th horrible even many republicans do not agree with, but the backlash against him makes even those republicans endorse him on the long run. It just works.
