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Graffiti is amazing. It is protest.

by ncr100 26d ago

GlacierFox 26d ago
Could I come and spray paint the front of your house? In protest of course.
- pmdr 26d ago
  As long as it's a mostly peaceful prostest, you're also allowed to set a few cars on fire and loot local businesses.
  - kg 26d ago
    When I put the two sides on the scale - the things being protested and the damage done by protesters - typically it's very easy for me to write off a couple burned cars or broken windows, even if I'm not a fan of broken windows or burned cars. Because typically these protests in the US are over things like reckless killings.
    - budman1 26d ago
      All of the US protests in the last 10 years have been mild. Sure a couple of Waymos get burned up, but they are easy to capture :) Get all those folks marching, you aren't going to get good decisions out of everyone. But the expression of the people is hard for those in power to ignore.
  - ceejayoz 26d ago
    As long as you say "I feared for my life", you're apparently also allowed to shoot random civilians if you're a cop. Which is kinda why people are upset enough to set shit on fire.
    - pmdr 26d ago
      I was merely hinting at protests being called peaceful by the media when they clearly weren't. Not saying they weren't justifiably so.
      - ceejayoz 26d ago
        They were overwhelmingly so. Millions protested, across the country and even overseas; dozens committed felonies of the sort you describe. Martin Luther King Jr. was subject to the same bullshit. https://www.reddit.com/r/agedlikemilk/comments/iia9lq/this_cartoon_from_1967/ https://www.reddit.com/r/agedlikemilk/comments/iia9lq/this_c...
        dhhdhjoe 26d ago
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      - ncr100 16d ago
        They were super peaceful per a reasonable judgement. Unreasonably people were digesting meat from innocent animals, slaughtered previously, which was violent. And their shoes... They trodded upon insects, and plants. Violence! Again, unreasonably labeling as violent. Reasonableness matters in judgement, in my and the legal system's view.
- benenrjdnz 26d ago
  If your name is banksy, because a new banksy appearing in front of my house would increase the value of the entire block.
- techblueberry 26d ago
  I mean, if you get consent, it makes the argument irrelevant doesn’t it?
- harimau777 26d ago
  What are you protesting? Why are you targeting an individual's residence rather than a corporation's property? What is the artist merit of your graffiti? How does damaging someone's house help your cause? Is the gain from damaging someone's house sufficient to justify the cost to them? In other words, you are trying to make things much more simplistic than they actually are.
- ncr100 16d ago
  Not just 'spray paint' or tag... I will power wash it off ... I do regularly already .. But if it's protest, or better yet recognizably art, then maybe yes!
budman1 26d ago
some of it. most is vandalism.
fmobus 26d ago
No, it's literally tagging territory. They literally call it tagging.
- micromacrofoot 26d ago
  there's a good amount of nuance and a lot of variety so broad claims like this don't really hold up
- folkrav 26d ago
  "They" call tags tags, and graffiti, graffiti.
  - iamnothere 26d ago
    Not really, graffiti artists often think that taggers are annoying (they are low effort and frequently tag over murals). Those who see it as art try to distinguish graffiti from vandalism. Artists often start as taggers so it’s not exactly a clean separation. It’s a similar relationship as the one between “real” hackers and skids.
- ncr100 16d ago
  Some of they do, others don't.
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vider 26d ago
I wish people would stop protesting in the elevator in my apartment building.
- ncr100 16d ago
  Ugh. It could be worse, in the elevator, but bad is also bad. Surveillance in the elevator may be legal depending on the locality and set-up.
oklahomasports 26d ago
No way people think graffiti is still fresh and cool in 2026
creaturemachine 26d ago
It's counter-culture and I'm here for it. I had a fun convo with my daughter about why rail cars are so frequently tagged. More fascinating are the hidden pieces in tunnels and the like, where only few people will ever see it.

Graffiti is amazing. It is protest.

by ncr100 26d ago

Graffiti is amazing. It is protest.

GlacierFox 26d ago

Could I come and spray paint the front of your house? In protest of course.

pmdr 26d ago
As long as it's a mostly peaceful prostest, you're also allowed to set a few cars on fire and loot local businesses.
- kg 26d ago
  When I put the two sides on the scale - the things being protested and the damage done by protesters - typically it's very easy for me to write off a couple burned cars or broken windows, even if I'm not a fan of broken windows or burned cars. Because typically these protests in the US are over things like reckless killings.
  - budman1 26d ago
    All of the US protests in the last 10 years have been mild. Sure a couple of Waymos get burned up, but they are easy to capture :) Get all those folks marching, you aren't going to get good decisions out of everyone. But the expression of the people is hard for those in power to ignore.
- ceejayoz 26d ago
  As long as you say "I feared for my life", you're apparently also allowed to shoot random civilians if you're a cop. Which is kinda why people are upset enough to set shit on fire.
  - pmdr 26d ago
    I was merely hinting at protests being called peaceful by the media when they clearly weren't. Not saying they weren't justifiably so.
    - ceejayoz 26d ago
      They were overwhelmingly so. Millions protested, across the country and even overseas; dozens committed felonies of the sort you describe. Martin Luther King Jr. was subject to the same bullshit. https://www.reddit.com/r/agedlikemilk/comments/iia9lq/this_cartoon_from_1967/ https://www.reddit.com/r/agedlikemilk/comments/iia9lq/this_c...
      - dhhdhjoe 26d ago
        [dead]
    - ncr100 16d ago
      They were super peaceful per a reasonable judgement. Unreasonably people were digesting meat from innocent animals, slaughtered previously, which was violent. And their shoes... They trodded upon insects, and plants. Violence! Again, unreasonably labeling as violent. Reasonableness matters in judgement, in my and the legal system's view.
benenrjdnz 26d ago
If your name is banksy, because a new banksy appearing in front of my house would increase the value of the entire block.
techblueberry 26d ago
I mean, if you get consent, it makes the argument irrelevant doesn’t it?
harimau777 26d ago
What are you protesting? Why are you targeting an individual's residence rather than a corporation's property? What is the artist merit of your graffiti? How does damaging someone's house help your cause? Is the gain from damaging someone's house sufficient to justify the cost to them? In other words, you are trying to make things much more simplistic than they actually are.
ncr100 16d ago
Not just 'spray paint' or tag... I will power wash it off ... I do regularly already .. But if it's protest, or better yet recognizably art, then maybe yes!

budman1 26d ago

some of it. most is vandalism.

fmobus 26d ago

No, it's literally tagging territory. They literally call it tagging.

micromacrofoot 26d ago
there's a good amount of nuance and a lot of variety so broad claims like this don't really hold up
folkrav 26d ago
"They" call tags tags, and graffiti, graffiti.
- iamnothere 26d ago
  Not really, graffiti artists often think that taggers are annoying (they are low effort and frequently tag over murals). Those who see it as art try to distinguish graffiti from vandalism. Artists often start as taggers so it’s not exactly a clean separation. It’s a similar relationship as the one between “real” hackers and skids.
ncr100 16d ago
Some of they do, others don't.

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vider 26d ago

I wish people would stop protesting in the elevator in my apartment building.

ncr100 16d ago
Ugh. It could be worse, in the elevator, but bad is also bad. Surveillance in the elevator may be legal depending on the locality and set-up.

oklahomasports 26d ago

No way people think graffiti is still fresh and cool in 2026

creaturemachine 26d ago

It's counter-culture and I'm here for it. I had a fun convo with my daughter about why rail cars are so frequently tagged. More fascinating are the hidden pieces in tunnels and the like, where only few people will ever see it.