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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (29 children)

Because defacing an ancient site has a clear connection to the environment... bunch of fucking self-centered attention-whores.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (22 children)

It's either this or ineffectual protests that get swept under the rug and ignored. You should be happy that their protest is purely cosmetic too.

Just Stop Oil said the orange powder paint was cornflour and it would "wash away with rain".

These dang protesters and their... *flips script* attention seeking! Can't they just do nothin like the rest of us?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Were I the "protest type", I'd be getting awfully creative with what can be done to the infrastructure of the things I was protesting. Big Oil? Would be a shame if the refineries were to suffer malfunctions... or the trucks/ships to suffer constant breakdowns...

But yeah, instead let's go fuck with something that has no relation and only serves to piss people off - but not in the way you want them pissed off.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

refinery malfunctions truck/ship breakdowns

sounds like “how to get prescribed as a terrorist organisation 101”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Ah yes, let's commit industrial sabotage. That'll go swimmingly!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Would be a shame if the refineries were to suffer malfunctions… or the trucks/ships to suffer constant breakdowns…

I am surprised that people haven't taken How to Blow Up a Pipeline (book or film) as more of a guide. I presume, as the climate apocalypse intensifies, protestors might escalate.

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