Rolling Coal On Protesters Compilation 🔴 (BlackLivesMatter, Trump Haters, Tree Huggers)
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as a critical example of hostile, spiteful behavior and of the culture around coal rolling.
What it is
A compilation of clips of diesel truck drivers rolling coal, blasting black exhaust smoke, at protesters. It is framed in a mocking political tone.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2019 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Critical Frondo · 2019-05 · on “Environmentalist didn't speak for 17 years to learn how to listen to opponents”
It is hard to characterize anti-environmental behaviors as anything other than spiteful; there's never a conversation about how to appropriately account for externalities, never talk about trade-offs. This is what you get instead: [this video] The comments on that video are all mean-spirited, too, and that's just one of many...
Critical DonHopkins · 2020-05 · on “Tesla adds bidirectional charging capability”
The cafe scene really happened. The Dutch tend to be straightforward and just say what they think. Have you ever heard the term "Rolling Coal"? It's an actual "thing" done by the same kind of people who think Hummers make them look cool. Rolling Coal On Protesters Compilation (BlackLivesMatter, Trump Haters, Tree Huggers): [this video] [LINK] >Rolling coal is the illegal practice of modifying a diesel engine to increase the amount of fuel entering the engine in order to emit large amounts of black or grey sooty exhaust fumes into the air. Rolling coal is sometimes used as a form of anti-environmentalism. Such modifications may include the intentional removal of the particulate filter. Practitione
Critical DonHopkins · 2022-12 · on “Remote Work Is Poised to Devastate America’s Cities”
Your misconceptions about reality and kids are sad and badly misinformed. Bakfiets are quite common and extremely popular in the Netherlands, and people carry their kids around in them all over the place all the time. They even have transparent hoods and windshields for the rain. And the kids and parents absolutely love the delightful experience of safely biking all around the beautiful parks and ubiquitous well maintained bike paths of the city and countryside together. Biking in Amsterdam on a bakfiets with kids [LINK] And now they even have bakfiets eBikes with heavy duty powerful motors and stepless continuous variable planetary hubs with automatic transmissions (Enviolo Automatiq), whic
Critical mmh0000 · 2026-05 · on “U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app”
The "people" doing this are exactly the type of people you'd expect... Just the first thing that came up in a youtube search, there are thousands more: [this video]