These tactics are totally "young person" strategies. "I know what will work! We'll wreck Friday rush hour traffic! That will get people to listen!" They don't even consider that pissing people off doesn't help your cause. It makes people hate you. People won't support you if they hate you. I'm a big fan of having a deliverable, attainable goal. Some type of end game. Anything I do would be to directly move me closer to that goal. Fucking up traffic isn't going to move these people anywhere closer to their goal.
Well that would mean dire distress, and that bro is in nowhere near dire distress so maybe he's just confused!