Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Meanlucario
That’s why I generally don’t take activists seriously. Their actions make them look stupid and they’re hurting their own cause in the process. I mean, oil paintings aren’t even petroleum-based, as far as I know.

@Goku Black
@Meanlucario
They aren’t, though.

These people have been going after works they know are protected behind glass/covers. Their point is to make a scene and get on the news, which they’ve been very successful at.

Meanwhile, someone that did break some precious works of art, as a rage fit because they weren’t allowed to have a meeting with the pope.

@The Smiling Pony
So they are assholes.

@Meanlucario
@Goku Black
Also you both got the rationale wrong: the medium has nothing to do with it, they do it to point out that people care more about overpriced pieces of art that rich people trade between themselves like baseball cards than about our planet that’s being destroyed by those very same rich people. And the planet is far from being as well-protected as the art pieces.

@Ereiam
Still much better ways of getting that point across that trying to harm something that people like.

How long before other developed countries reinstate their ban on American citizens coming in? They don’t seem to act respectful or assimilate whatsoever.

@IWTCIEM
It’s not an American thing, but a tourist thing (and it may be surprising to you, but being an asshole tourist is far from limited to Americans).

@Meanlucario
Eh, afaict they’re not trying to harm the works, just making themselves a nuisance.

@Meanlucario
At least in Europe, the “asshole tourist” baton was long ago passed on to Chinese tourists.

Still, it’s pretty telling how most of the media are treating them as if they do. You have to dig to find out a fair mention of the “vandalized” artworks being protected in the first place.

@Ereiam
Maybe because us humans very much love art.

The best art is mother nature and that’s an art we don’t seem to care much about.

@MethidMan
I’ve seen nature. She’s a terrible artist.

I too like to plan an attack on orders from Bill Ayers, only for is to take 7 months to a year to plan. Eventually culminating in putting a small parcel bomb in a toilet and destroying a bathroom and hurting no one. All in the name of ending US American imperialist adventures. Surely, this will end Bad Thing and the SDS will trigger its uprising and we’ll achieve lasting peace and Good Thing

The snow crab fishing season has been canceled for the first time in history as the crab population suffered a catastrophic 90% die off.

It is one of the single largest population crashes in marine history to happen over the course of a 2 year period.

The leading theory is spikes in ocean temperature led to a reduction in the “cool pools”, areas where young crabs gather during the summer months. Decreasing the space, and piling the crabs together where food was more scarce and disease could spread faster.

In case the two above were interested in a real world example of why those two kids splashed that painting.

The world as we know it is dying, and I’m not sure we are prepared for what can come next.

@Zincy
I mean, they could have drawn attention to that without threatening art that people like.

@Meanlucario
May I ask “how?”

Because I’m quite sure they (and many many others) have been trying their best for a very long time in all the manner of polite ways imaginable, to no avail. And yet with a couple of these harmless and victimless stunts, they’re getting a whole lot of attention.

Yes, most people are going to say they’re dumb and achieving nothing, but those are the same people that, tbh, also didn’t give a shit in the first place. A small number, however, will be curious, given all the headlines, and maybe realize how fucked we all are.

@Meanlucario
Methods of drawing attention without causing people worry, bother or incovinice have poor success rates, or so I’ve heard.

Because that has worked so well so far yea? Mostly because your side has spent years and years ignoring evidence, science, and reason.

That art piece will look real great hanging threadbare on a wall, windswept by sand kicked up from the umpteenth Resource War that burned what was left of Europe.

We’re in the “finding out” portion of the fucking around cycle. And if you want a stable biosphere in the future it is time to make some changes.

And I’m an absolutely huge Van Gogh fan, but it is high time we start inconveniencing the fuck out of people until they understand how grave of a danger we are actually in.

@The Smiling Pony
@Latecomer
@Zincy
Attention that makes their side looks like assholes. Most people have already decided with “side” to be on, and this only makes one side look worst.

@Meanlucario
Worse to the people that already think “rolling coal” is a great way to own the libs. Meanwhile some kid on tiktok or whatever might take a minute to look away from the latest IRL Fortnite dance trend to look into what all the fuss is about and go “oh hey, so we’re killing the planet?”

@The Smiling Pony
Or the “own the libs” could use this as an opportunity to demonize those trying to stop the destruction of our current environment by claiming that they are crazies trying to destroy society to have nature overrun us and use “us” as fertilizer.

Early voting has begun in most states, Ohio including.

MTG, Jack Posobiec and several other Republicans and Far-Right members are now trying to use the Alex Jones lawsuit to go on rants about how he is being “Censored” and that this trial was an attack on “muh freeze peach”.

Sure, go ahead. Support the obviously crazy man who keeps trying to say that some of the deadliest school shootings in America where all actually faked so you can campaign for something that you don’t actually care about. Show the world your true colours.

ALso these same people are trying to turn this trial into an issue about the COVID vaccines becuase they think “If Alex has to pay damages for lying then why can’t we do the same to the vaccine companies?”.

Yes becuase people trying to make a vaccine to prevent people from dying and some crazy person on the internet denying that school shootings happens are totally the same…

@Background Pony #1F81
Also there’s the fact that a lot of the parents of Sandy Hook victims had been driven to suicide or had gotten their houses shot up, among other horrible things they’ve been having to deal with since

@Background Pony #1F81
The fact that they’re doing this is the reason why making fun them is the only option, cause reasoning with these people might not work at all.