Stonehenge sprayed with paint by environmental protesters
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The prehistoric megalithic structure in England has been targeted by activists spraying orange powder paint, social media footage showed.
Environmental protesters sprayed paint on Stonehenge on Wednesday, with footage showing an orange powder covering some of the stones.
Two protesters dressed in white were seen running towards two of the megaliths, spraying paint, as another person attempted to stop them, in footage released by Just Stop Oil, an environmental activist group focused on the issue of human-caused climate change.
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Ffs just blow up a pipeline or sabotage parts of their infrastructure or follow the higher ups home and deface their homes.
,they said, sitting at home, doing nothing.
So they did just as much as the protesters in this case.
Nothing is preferred than destroying cultural artifacts.
All this does is drive people away from the cause.
None of the people clutching their pearls about this would have done anything anways.
That would be ideal.
Spent the whole day doing things about it at my job.
And they did, literally destroyed a couple fuel pumps at two gas stations: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/28/just-stop-oil-protesters-sabotage-petrol-pumps-on-m25-motorway
Did you hear about that on the news? Did you see this being posted on Lemmy?
Now you know why they have to do what they do.
All they do is make people not care about their cause.
Sure made me care.
No, those people already dont care. They just need an excuse for their inaction.
Or go sabotage a monument in Saudi-Arabia, they produce more oil than anyone.
Throwing orange corn starch on the Black Stone in Mecca would be amazing press.
They won't do that. That would involve being killed. There is a reason why Peta throws red paint on old ladies wearing fur and not on biker gangs wearing leather.
The very worst thing the UK government is going to do is throw them in jail for a few months, maybe a small fine.
These are all felonies.
This is the UK. "Felonies" 🙄
But yeah it's a lot more severe and they'd probably be out of activism forever.
Fucking so sorry my second language isn't up to par to your standards.
What's the right term here, "a proper naughty twat?"
That would be "crime".
A felony is a type of crime which doesn't exist here.
You can't just get upset if someone points out you've used a word wrong. Words have meanings and while getting it wrong, especially as a second language, isn't bad, it's still incorrect and can be confusing (e.g. most people would assume you're talking about US law when you talk about felonies).
I can get upset when instead of correcting me in the first comment, you mocked me.
Assuming everyone's aware of the US/UK law and their nomenclature is too much sniffing of your on farts.
Or is it flatulence. Toots?
Oh and lastly, the person I replied to, listed random crimes/felonies, and didn't specify the country those crimes/felonies should be done.
From context, it's clear that it'd be UK action, considering JSO is a UK group.
Climate activism isn't limited to JSO
In this thread we're talking about the effectiveness of JSOs methods and what they "should do" instead.
We were talking about something else before you "acktchually" this convo.
Point to the comment in this chain where we aren't talking about what JSO is/should be doing before I got involved, then. With a quote and a link.
PS there's only one comment before mine and yours and it's talking about what JSO "should" do. I'll save you time:
Right, so you think that the person thinks that vandalism of notable monuments as protest in other countries by other groups of people is fine?
It's Just JSO in UK that should act differently.
Christ, I thought they teach this shit in schools.
Spray painting someone's house is not a felony. Also who cares.
Stalking is.
Who cares? I'm sure the people who trying to protest without becoming felons. What is this take...
Following someone once is not stalking. For stalking there has to be a persistent pattern. Or else women would be able to get stalkers arrested a lot more often instead of being killed by them.
Fucking thank you for the nitpicking. I'm sure you can deduct where people live if you followed them somewhere once.
Christ almighty the thickness.
Encouraging people to do crimes IRL, while posting on the internet anonymously, sitting on your fat ass consuming resources that accelerate climate change.
How do the boots and assholes of the Uber wealthy taste btw? From the way you are munchin down I would guess pretty good but I would like to know your first hand knowledge.
Explain the correlation between you not understanding what a protest is and me supposedly "munching boots".
Sit the fuck back down, basement-dweller, and enjoy people doing the hard work of resisting the status quo for you.
You are the one sticking up for oil executives, not me, but sure, I'm the bad one.
Property damage over a certain sum is