Norwegian here and I really don’t understand the protesting truckers. Like the government has cut all taxes on fuel to combat the increasing prices. There’s not much more to do. What the heck do you want out of this? That we send a small vessel with armed teenagers to open the straight?
If they are demanding their government not continue the same neoliberal drivel that got everyone here, then that’d be good. What to do in the immediate present, idk steal an oil tanker from Russia? Not many other options.
Start transitions to fully green energy. But that’s not immediate.
Not just that, they’re protesting against high fuel prices by deliberately burning more of it. Stage a protest with actual helpful goals, like getting others to use less this reducing prices due to decreased demand.
IMO a foreign agitation/influence campaign. These protests would never take place without weaponized social media and the state level motivation and funding behind it. Norway could be seen as competition, stand in the way of making EU fossil - dependent on other gas suppliers.
Also see: farmer protests in the wake of '22, now nonexistent, although the situation is worse
Generally I don’t think people realized the actual implications of information warfare after Cambridge analytica
Norwegian here and I really don’t understand the protesting truckers. Like the government has cut all taxes on fuel to combat the increasing prices. There’s not much more to do. What the heck do you want out of this? That we send a small vessel with armed teenagers to open the straight?
Wrong. They can take from their wealthiest citizens to provide for those who do not have enough.
The solution is there, we just choose not to do it.
Norwegian here too, it’s because it’s a tiny protest. Like, it was a 100 people; it’s just because they drove their trucks slowly 🤷
fucking stupid that this protest got more coverage than any other normal protest…
If they are demanding their government not continue the same neoliberal drivel that got everyone here, then that’d be good. What to do in the immediate present, idk steal an oil tanker from Russia? Not many other options.
Start transitions to fully green energy. But that’s not immediate.
Not just that, they’re protesting against high fuel prices by deliberately burning more of it. Stage a protest with actual helpful goals, like getting others to use less this reducing prices due to decreased demand.
Car brains for sure are moronic.
IMO a foreign agitation/influence campaign. These protests would never take place without weaponized social media and the state level motivation and funding behind it. Norway could be seen as competition, stand in the way of making EU fossil - dependent on other gas suppliers.
Also see: farmer protests in the wake of '22, now nonexistent, although the situation is worse
Generally I don’t think people realized the actual implications of information warfare after Cambridge analytica