Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers - eviltoast

This was the one soup-throwing which did any damage at all; in this case to the frame.

The penalty is appreciably worse than for minor violent attacks.

  • vovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    They don’t do it to become popular. They want to throw a wrench in the works to wake people up.

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        3 months ago

        In this case just everydays course of affairs. Generally, the disruption of the machine.

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      3 months ago

      Who needs to be woken up? Who hasn’t heard of climate change or Big Oil? Is defacing a public artifact going to sway Conservatives or Centrists?

      Because at 86% of people saying that these acts either don’t change their views on climate activism or that they negatively affect them, this seems like it’s just “putting people to sleep.”