Activists spray red paint over billionaire Walmart heiress's superyacht for a second time
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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.
Fire is harder to wash off
I have an idea. Destroying it probably just gets written off from insurance.
Wash the boat with undiluted pine sol.
Literally no damage done to the boat will ever actually financially harm the bitchionaire. That's not the goal of protest - though it's certainly a bonus when it's achievable.
So it slips out of the water. Smart.
What does undiluted pinesol do?
Undiluted pine sol is the smell of pine, but it is incredibly strong, and takes forever to get rid of.
Back on reddit there was a story about some soldiers that resorted to it to "speed clean" the smell of their training facility. It's far more effective in an enclosed space.
They'll sue for emotional damage or some rich person bullshit idk
You're right they shouldn't set fire to the boat
Even harder when you spray with gasoline first.
Cleanse the yacht with holy fire!
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..."
Make sure it's something that will take her servants an extra hard time to clean
The bottom of the ocean would be pretty hard to clean.
They should put the billionaire on the bottom of the ocean, not the boat. The boat might be useful for something.
Billionaire's yacht? Hardly. But it may be scrapped. Expensive furniture and tech sold, high quality engine and parts repurposed.
Yeah, then her servants would have to start filing paperwork and have another yacht pulled out of storage while they design the new one.
Not if the bottom-of-the-ocean thing happens when the oligarch in question is on board.
ADMIRALTY ORDERS
To Cpt. S. Technique
'Intercept Walmart billionaire's megayacht KAOS en route to extinction, INTENT ON CARRYING US ALL TO THOSE WATERS...Sink, Burn, or take her a Prize'
As an added bonus lots of chemicals and crap will be put into the environment.
Yup this sounds productive to vandalize someone's boat.
Supposedly they used biodegradable paint. On that measure, you can't fault them.
Tell us you didn't read the article without saying that. Plus even if they had used normal paint, that's literally nothing compared to what this yacht does on a regular basis.
Good. Symbolic protests are a way to surface issues suppressed by the dominant ideology. If it gets any media coverage it is a success.
All billionaires are ethically in the wrong.
Not really but this one in particular is the Michael Jordan of drunk driving and I believe got away with manslaughter.
Yes, really. There are no ethically sound reasons for a person to have all this money when there is so much inequality. Moreover, there is no ethical ways to accumulate all this money. If you are billionaire either you or your daddy had to do a lot of explicitly unethical shit, and in order to retain it, you have to do unethical shit, actively, right now.
Capitalism, no matter how benign, and well intended, is literally exploiting labor from those who are lesss fortunate. And thanks to that malignant leprechaun Milton Friedman, every MBA since thinks that they're legally bound to maximize dividends for investors instead of compensating the people who do the actual production. It's obscene, sociopathic, and literally evil. But if Jeebus didn't want them to rich, they wouldn't be, right?
Expound.
Fuck yeah. They should live in constant and non-stop fear of the people they hoard from
"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.
Lol you haven't seen many rich people have you? This is definitely something they fear.
Then they have a weird way of showing it. They're doing an awful lot of hoarding and exploitation for somebody within pitchfork distance.
I honestly hope you are correct.
The rich know there will always be people who will tell you you're protesting wrong.
They SHOULD, but this won't accomplish that.
Let's think of something better.
Look no further than medieval French engineering!
Time for some TrebuchetMemes?
Did you know a trebuchet can use a counterweight to throw a 90KG projectile over 300 metres?
All jokes aside, and we might agree in some specifics -
https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too
Any new order that was established needs to limit the violence as much as possible. Because revolutionary violence as often as not eats the children of revolution.
In the meantime though...
Good read
Wouldn't hurt to complement it with one of their more modern techniques - large crowds using Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, Nitrogen and Oxygen
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/
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.
The government is now controlled, more or less, by said billionaires - too late?
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.
Your post makes it sound like it was any different in the past. I certainly don't remember that.
Nah, there's more to tinker with, but fixable.
it's a great start.
How dare these activists do anything other than overthrowing the government and instituting a socialist utopia. I just canβt support this.
Let's make it a third time
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.
And then they buy more red spray paint on Amazon because Walmart was out .
Side note, didn't the movie company make bank from people buying those V for Vendetta masks to protest against corporations or something? Vague memory of it
Yeah, between Anonymous and Occupy Wall Street those masks were very profitable for the people being protested against.
Iβm sure their brief and ultimately pointless unpopularity was well compensated for by those extra revenues.
That's what I don't get.
The owner of the yacht doesn't give a shit. It's beneath them.
Those activists just made a headache for the working class crew who run the yacht.
Good work sticking it to the man's working class employees! /S
They got their message on international news, and they did it targeting the super wealthy instead of blocking traffic or otherwise hindering innocent people. Frankly I don't care if the crew has a 'headache' being paid to clean up some biodegradable paint, they're just being paid for one task instead of another. What actual harm of any kind has this done? The benefit might be small but it's nonzero unlike what most of us are doing.
Reminds me that the point of protest is to be disruptive. Oh, you're blocked on your way to do your job? Your job is to do your job, not to fight other workers on behalf of your employer
I don't get the whole 'protest should not ever inconvenience anyone, ever' line of thinking- if I'm travelling for work and I get stuck in traffic behind a protest, I bill my time and that's how I pass the disruption signal along to where it needs to land
They're creating jobs by fucking up the yacht aren't they?
Or is it only billionaires that "create jobs" when they fuck up the entire world?
Because targeted vandalism is easier and more satisfying to animalistic urges than the long work of organizing political backing, running for office, enacting societal change
Scuttle it next time.
We gotta get the orcas in on this one.
Send in the orcas!
I love it. God bless us every one.
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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.
So, while you're entirely correct, someone on the team of "let's harass the inconceivably wealthy" would probably still appreciate this action because it's better than nothing.
It's also possible they're trying to get the media to cover it more, rather than cause actual property damage
Are you volunteering?
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?
So what have you done yourself? Stolen any boats?
Itβs too easy to sit and criticise other peoples protests from the comforting you gaming chair.
Its self masturbatory. It makes themselves feel like they did something but grosses out most other people. These types of activist whose strategy is to do something shocking just to get press are always counter productive. As if they can't reason how they're speaking to the choir
I feel like I know your opinion on climate protests blocking roads etc now...
Fuck, if a climate protest stopped me from getting to work on time, I'd buy breakfast for the protesters.
Your local vegan restaurant would probably love this. No joke.
Not just my opinion. You would know what the majority and growing opinion on it is. Which is why most of those protest are backed by fossil industries. They stopped trying to fight these groups and started funding the most annoying of them.
Ah yes, the legendary false flag.
Agent provocateur. The ol bugs bunny, if you can't beat them, join em.
I'll believe it when I see evidence of it.
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:
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).
There's quite a difference between destroying a yatch and trying to blow up a building with people in it...
Not sure whose disinformation campaign you've been hearing, but he set fire to unoccupied buses, not "trying to blow up a building with people in it"
But I'm sure the fascists are happy someone from sh.itjust.works came along to defend them. What a shocker.
Edit: What I should have said is "exhibit A" -- This is why we still need the red paint, so thank you for illustrating my point
I just searched their name and looked at Wikipedia because I didn't know who you were referring to
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Tacoma_attack
Also, accusing me of using far right propaganda as a source when you post a link to a far left source of info on the subject is incredible ironic...
And yet, here we are talking about it. Sometimes keeping the conversation going is in itself a win.
Team Orca!
It would be super easy to get away with sinking known billionaire yachts worldwide if you do it right.
warg into the orcas?
Warm? Nah they've been doing it for fun. Just give them a lot of points for this one.
ITT: People who don't think $100m+ yachts have countermeasures for attacks like this.
Yeah, one of the big countermeasures being the people who live on board, as in, the crew. I hope they can sleep at night knowing they killed a working class schmuck. Fire, or these more outlandish ideas of explosives and scuba shit, will almost certainly get the crew members if it's enough to actually sink a yacht like this.
Hey look part of the crew died. Part has serious ptsd. And all that are left alive just lost their jobs. Meanwhile the billionaire has the boat insured so he gets his money back.
Super yachts are built similar to cruise liners. Compartmentalised below the water line. You breach one, it gets detected and will seal it off. They are obviously gonna be connected to several alert systems and will notify the owner or whomever is in charge of maintenance. If anyone does manage to damage the hull, gonna have to do it more than once.
Scuba certified activists. Sabotage the hull or fuck up the prop.
Video of the first time
https://invidious.asir.dev/watch?v=jQCF-dUNxRc
Oh No. Anyway
[Everyone liked that]
Stop fucking around and sink it.
So burn that one too.
That gets you game over though, long haul strat best strat
Oh no you cost them .0000005 seconds of their salary to fix it.
its about getting eyeballs on their message.
I've had traffic blocked while I was cycling to work by eco protesters and lamented they were targeting the wrong folks here- so they're doing what they can to target the right folks.
no matter what people do to try to draw attention to the right focus on the issue, there will always be thumb typers saying its wrong, so good work
Yeah but blocking traffic is just as valid. Frankly too many regular people just don't give a shit about climate change. We need to do anything to spread knowledge.
I really disagree with this one. When people can't get to work and are therefore in trouble with the boss, or lose a client, they become angry with the people or factor that caused it. I have heard easily half a dozen people say they hate climate activists for this reason. It doesn't work.
With the added bonus of letting these people know that them and their assets aren't as hard to get to as they like to think. Trust that this won't end with paint.
No joke, it's probably even less than that.
"Let them eat Taco Bell."
"Stop doing that or I'll have to cut another $ per hour from all our employees to pay for the damages!"
Here's a personal finance tip: Don't buy a yacht, or any boat, like, ever. If you really want one and have the money, just rent one, these thing costs a ridiculous amount of money to maintain for something that's going to be used like once or twice a year at most.
The owner is such a dumbass he does r even paint the whole thing red lol!
Jealousy becomes vandalism?
I wonder how they feel good themselves if people from Africa came and vandalised their house and say rich people should exist
There's a difference between working class and a billionaire that exploits millions of workers.
I believe these activists have probably had empathy for the global poor. This walmart bitch creates the global poor.
They are free to give up their "wealthy" Spanish life and go help those "poor" people get rich.
More action less talk.
The billionaires are literally the reason everyone else is poor. They use that wealth and power to keep wages stagnant and neo-colonialism and neo-slavery churning.
Divide the wealth of the billionaire and the number of poor people and see how much they each get
It's how they use their power of capital, not the actual dollar amount. They have the decision making power above all the rest of us. They are deciding to create a deeply unfair and violent world.
What does Africa have to do with this, weren't the activists from Spain? π§
Comparison. These billionaire compare to average Spaniards are filthy rich.
These Spaniards are filthy rich compare the most people in African.
I doubt the action came out of "care", more out of jealousy.
So they're acting like billionaires?
not sure if the billionaire are jealous or not.
The protest going around vandalising property to make their point is definitely an action from jealously.
People have vote with their money to shop at Walmart.
Billionaires don't get jealous? I guess I meant greed.
Some are, some not. Hard to judge.
Everyone expects others to give what they have away like a river flowing downstream.
Show me a billionaire that isn't motivated by greed. Seriously, I'll wait.
But honestly, how is it you can know the motivations of a protestor and most other people but not whether a billionaire is greedy?
Billionaire who don't want attention are not going to be parading around.
People who want attention does
This is entirely unacceptable, that is somebody's hard earned private property and it's never OK to vandalize what isn't yours.
Hard earned...? There's several angles you might use to condemn this, but suggesting they worked hard for their inherited fortunes is ridiculous.
Somebody hard earned that money even if it wasn't this person it was her father or grandfather
Ah crap, just realised it's a troll account. Shoo troll, shoo
I think it's more of a parody account. I asked judge Mills Lane. He'll allow it.
That's right, private property has human rights!!
@MrBusinessMan@lemme.ee, you silly goose! Why do you have to be so evil? Tsk tsk
That's simply untrue, a yacht like that is a terrible waste of humanities limited resources.