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British Just Stop Oil activists in London respond to Donald Trump's election (slrpnk.net)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, it’s my favorite form of protest: easily ignorable, and sparking no conversation.

The worst part about Vincent Van Soup is that people still talk about it two years later. Or maybe the worst part is that it still prompts people to ask “Is climate change really so dire that they were justified?” and have very long conversations about it.

Terrible!

I prefer Orange Paint. Nobody will remember Orange Paint by tomorrow, and that’s what I call a good protest.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

The worst part about Vincent Van Soup is that people still talk about it two years later.

Yeah, talking about what shitheads those people were, not about any meaningful action on the actual issue.

Is the orange paint a good protest? I don't think so. But at least it actually is a protest. The action being taken is actually related to the message they want to convey.

Throwing soup at a painting is not protesting or activism. It's just vandalism while wearing a t-shirt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

"the oppressor doesn't get to tell the oppressed how to protest"

Only tangentially related here but the principle remains

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"

[–] [email protected] -3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Really, you're comparing morality the well deserved comeuppance for petty vandalism to the systematic oppression of an entire race? Wow ... that's fucking disgusting, you should be ashamed.

But no point in further arguing with that level of delusion. Have a day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

Throwing soup on a FRAME is hardly vandalism, especially considering no real damage was done.

Crazily enough though, we still talk about it. No one will remember this orange paint.

Its nice of you to so succinctly prove their point.