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The article doesn’t say that there was no damage, the article quotes the vandals as claiming that their vandalism would “wash off in the rain.” Personally I do
by alwa 2y ago
The article doesn’t say that there was no damage, the article quotes the vandals as claiming that their vandalism would “wash off in the rain.”
Personally I don’t understand the political value they see in this type of disruption. The acts are theatrical but don’t seem connected to the protestors’ political desires: they grab attention but they don’t do anything with it. It feels like these performative disruptions deepen the impression that the climate movement is unserious, self-absorbed and antagonistic—I’m sure they calculate that it that contributes to their cause, I just don’t understand how.
- a4000 2y agoI've seen a lot of conspiracy types speculate that Just Stop Oil is actually a creation of the Oil companies as a controlled opposition group to basically make the climate protesters look so bad that they lose public support. Personally, I haven't seen any compelling evidence of this, I think they really are just well meaning idiots who have no real idea or strategy of what they actually want to achieve or how to get there.