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I'm not saying effect nobody, I'm saying that the right people need to be effected. Effect the wrong people and you just make enemies.
Sorry when you can get criminally charged for trespass, the "right people" can buy themselves a big moat of real estate to insulate from protests. Sometimes the people they work with, services, and customers need to be inconvenienced.
If you can't empathise with people protesting, and you just get angry at them, maybe do some self reflection on why you can't look at the bigger picture and not take things personally.
Thats what I'm advocating for. Targeted disruption is necessary. Indiscriminate disruption is harmful to a cause.
If your cause is so just that random people automatically empathize with your protestors as soon as they are aware of the protestors, no matter how much the protestors make their day worse, then what's the point of disruption?
Clearly they're just waiting to be made aware of your cause, just say hi and they'll join you. You've already won, go forth and make changes with your broad support of the population.
To force people ignoring the issue to engage with it. People who are fine with status quo and ignoring the issue now have to deal with it. Either they're going to be people who agree to some degree with the protestors and will be more voices saying "just give them what they want FFS so this distribution can end" or they oppose the protestors at which point why would the protestors be upset that they have been disrupted?