• Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    It’s either this or ineffectual protests that get swept under the rug and ignored. You should be happy that their protest is purely cosmetic too.

    Just Stop Oil said the orange powder paint was cornflour and it would “wash away with rain”.

    These dang protesters and their… *flips script* attention seeking! Can’t they just do nothin like the rest of us?

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      3 months ago

      But why Stonehenge? Why not oil company buildings? I believe oil companies generally have buildings. Large buildings. With their names on them.

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          3 months ago

          Maybe we need to come up with a way to deface oil company buildings that does make headlines

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              3 months ago

              Out of interest. As I’m not a farmer. Do you know how I would go about buying and filling a muck spreader.

              Plus Rishi Sunaks home address would be a totally unrelated useful fact to share.

              • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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                3 months ago

                Do you know how I would go about buying and filling a muck spreader.

                You can hire one from any number of places, like here. I quite like the side discharge spreader for drive-bys as long as you knew the range.

                To fill it try a pig farmer as they usually have large ponds of the stuff they want rid of - chicken shit or bull shit are also available for symbolic reasons.

                Plus Rishi Sunaks home address would be a totally unrelated useful fact to share.

                His home has already been vandalised as I assume the address is in the electoral register. I was quite surprised they got through security and I assume it’s been tightened up since. Driving a large farm vehicle at the house seems quite a good way to get shot.

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      Were I the “protest type”, I’d be getting awfully creative with what can be done to the infrastructure of the things I was protesting. Big Oil? Would be a shame if the refineries were to suffer malfunctions… or the trucks/ships to suffer constant breakdowns…

      But yeah, instead let’s go fuck with something that has no relation and only serves to piss people off - but not in the way you want them pissed off.

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        3 months ago

        refinery malfunctions truck/ship breakdowns

        sounds like “how to get prescribed as a terrorist organisation 101”

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      Defacing random things that don’t have any connect at all to what you’re protesting only makes you look bad.

      Yeah, it got attention. Bad attention.

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        3 months ago

        Let’s be real here. What could climate protesters do that wouldn’t get them bad attention? History has shown: Nothing. There is nothing they could do that wouldn’t get them bad attention. In Germany, they even got cussed out for blocking private jets.
        Face it: The powerful do not fear retaliation from the masses if they vilify climate protesters. The protesters cannot win the PR battle. So all they have left is publicity stunts. And as far as publicity stunts go, plastering stones with water-soluble paint is about as tame as it gets.