It's why I don't.

The “disruptive protests are bad” people are straight garbage pieces of shit.

Strawman. There are no such people. You are mischaracterizing criticism of JSO methodology as criticism of their cause.

When you're protesting racism in February, 1960, do you plan a sit-in protest at a "Whites Only" diner? JSO methodology would have you picket a black-owned restaurant that caters to minorities, to "bring attention" to the problem. As if their audience had no clue that the problem existed.

When you're protesting homophobia in the 90s, do you attend a pride parade? Based on their current methodology, JSO would have slow-walk in front of a gay bar, to "bring attention" to discrimination on the basis of sexuality by disrupting attendance of that bar. As if their audience didn't already know that they were victims of homophobia.

If you're protesting the health insurance industry in the 2020s, do you "Occupy ERs", or do you Player 2 an insurance executive? Based in their current methodology, JSO would camp out in an ambulance bay, to "bring attention" to the plight of the sick and injured. As if patients didn't realize how badly they were being screwed by "insurers".

JSO (et al) is "disrupting" the general public instead of "disrupting" agents, subsidiaries, or beneficiaries of the oil industry. They are targeting the public as if the public has no clue that we are being screwed over.

JSO could be making just as big a spectacle, and bringing just as much attention to the problem by targeting gas stations, ICE car dealerships, and other public faces of the oil industry. Instead, they are "disrupting" fellow victims of that industry.

Yes, we need disruptive protests: we need the

oil industry to be disrupted.

The oil industry. Not the general public.

JSO should be driving a wedge between the transportation industry and the oil industry. Fuel stations are probably the most obvious: take action against any fuel station that doesn't offer EV charging. (Later, you can target "gas" stations that refuse to abandon there legacy pumps).

Car dealerships: target any dealer that doesn't have EVs front and center on their lots.

Muffler shops: drive them completely out of business; they shouldn't exist at all.

Some states have emission testing requirements that affect only the drivers of ICE vehicles. Disrupting the operation of testing centers prevents ICE vehicle owners from being able to register their vehicles.

I think the key is who it is disruptive to. Blocking traffic just pisses off the average person. The decision makers don't care about the average person. You gotta disrupt the decision makers. But you also have to be prepared for them to fight back hard.

Mere disruption is ineffective. It's not targeting anyone responsible in a way that will change how they are responsible. It's not changing anyone's mind for the better.

When NYC had a trash pickup crisis, someone called to throw it all onto the mayor's lawn, and the crisis got resolved real quick.

You wanna do crimes that stop drivers, go slash tires. People will be pissed. But they'll be pissed at a car they can't use, and figure out how to live without it, however briefly - instead of being pissed at some temporary roadblock that feels like any other traffic jam. Just bear in mind you are also fucking normal people out of several hundred dollars each. It's not exactly swinging for the bigwigs in charge.

A non-disruptive protest is masturbation.

A protest is disruption.

That's why protests in designated protest zones out of the eyelines and more importantly away from the profit operations of those being protested are an intentional and effective method of completely neutering protest.

We have protest in the US. It just doesn't mean anything anymore.