Spanish climate activists sprayed red paint across a superyacht owned by billionaire Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie in Barcelona on Friday, the second time the yacht has been the target of protests in the past two months.

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[–] 198 points 3 years ago (10 children)
  • [–] 45 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    I have an idea. Destroying it probably just gets written off from insurance.

    Wash the boat with undiluted pine sol.

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    [–] 134 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    Everyone's complaining that this doesn't do anything and is counter productive, but you know what this looks like to me?

    Propaganda of the deed. Someone will look at this and think "I know better things to spray her superyacht with than paint..."

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    Make sure it's something that will take her servants an extra hard time to clean

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  • [–] 99 points 3 years ago

    Good. Symbolic protests are a way to surface issues suppressed by the dominant ideology. If it gets any media coverage it is a success.

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  • [–] 89 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    All billionaires are ethically in the wrong.

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    [–] 82 points 3 years ago (20 children)

    Fuck yeah. They should live in constant and non-stop fear of the people they hoard from

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    "Fear"

    You really think they give a shit? About something like this? They just pay someone $200 to clean the yacht. Sink it and they just buy a new one. This isn't anything.

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    [–] 63 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Governments should stop billionaires. Tax them 100% income tax after a certain amount of income, tax them 50%% of their networth yearly after a certain amount of value.

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  • [–] 58 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    The government is now controlled, more or less, by said billionaires - too late?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago*

    I don't think there ever was a time where not the richest were in power. From warlords to kings and now politicians in the pockets of CEO's or shareholders by extension, people in power amass riches and with it more power.

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  • [–] 60 points 3 years ago

    100% agreed, billionaires should not exist. It's absolutely disgusting that they do. They'll take and take and take and take some more. If you haven't seen it yet, please check out this site visualizing Jeff Bezos' wealth. These people believe that they owe nothing to a society that gave them the tools, infra, security, and workforce for their companies to succeed. The level of excess is really unfathomable, and this chart is like Power of Ten for helping you understand the difference in a few zeros.

    https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

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  • [–] 59 points 3 years ago

    it's a great start.

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  • [–] 52 points 3 years ago

    How dare these activists do anything other than overthrowing the government and instituting a socialist utopia. I just can’t support this.

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  • [–] 49 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Let's make it a third time

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    [–] 49 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    More mandatory overtime for her staff. She'll never know it happened unless one of her social media managers sees it on Twitter and mentions it to her.

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    Send in the orcas!

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (18 children)

    A spokesperson for Marina Port Vell said that the boat had not been damaged in Friday’s action. “After a quick action on behalf of the security team, the incident has been corrected and the boat is now in a perfect state,” the spokesperson told CNN.

    Cannot stress enough that a new paint job is not the kind of action that's going to fix jack shit. More than likely, it's barely an annoyance. Few people on the planet have not heard the message already. If you don't want them joyriding a massive yacht everywhere, remove the yacht.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (9 children)

    Uh. Lemme check. Yes. We're well past the "please stop killing me, it's really mean :(" stage. They know. They are choosing to jetset anyway.

    If the disgustingly rich haven't shifted their focus by now, they've basically made their stance known already and stuff like this strikes me as just toying around. It makes activists feel like they accomplished something, and then it's rectified quite literally the same day and everyone continues about their business.

    Wanna join in or would your parents worry?

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    And end up like Will Van Spronsen, who was called a terrorist and demonized by almost everyone for doing good. (Reddit would suspend your account just for mentioning him.)

    The super wealthy's propaganda tools are more powerful than ours because they control the media, and there aren't as many people who are awake to what's happening as you might think. I'm all for direct action like what you describe, but we still need the red paint to make people aware of what's going on. And I promise, it does do something. What do the unlovable rich want that they can't buy? Love and respect. (Look at fucking Elon, that pathetic insect.)

    I recently read a sci-fi book called "Station Six" by an anarchist author who goes by S.J. Klapecki. Let me quote one of the characters:

    He wants to live like good King Arthur, loved and cherished and appreciated by his serfs. I like throwing a wrench into that. I think it's important. And, who knows, maybe the next set of malcontents will learn something from us. I doubt it, but there's my optimism for ya.

    You and I look at the activists pictured and think, "What was the point," but the majority of people are still learning their ABCs of why this whole system is fucked. Sure, I'd have preferred the ship got destroyed completely, but these folks still did a brave act that has hit that sweet spot where it will get media attention without being entirely buried like a Will Van Spronsen (who, for the record, is a god damn hero and I'm not disparaging him at all).

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    [–] 23 points 3 years ago

    I love it. God bless us every one.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (17 children)

    It would be super easy to get away with sinking known billionaire yachts worldwide if you do it right.

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