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Man, I've studied history and I still agree with all that they're doing and even wish they had done permanent damage to all the things these protestors have sprayed. The hypocrisy is incredible.
It's just like when Notre-Dame burned, billions started coming in while people in Paris are homeless or must choose between eating or paying rent.
These things are objects, living beings are dying due to our inaction and people would rather spend money to admire a fucking painting than think about it? That's disgusting.
So your argument is that because humans suck and don't want to help their fellow humans, it's okay to destroy art and relics?
Really?
Why is it so hard for people these days to understand that two wrongs don't make a right, and two sides can be wrong or do bad?
Letting people rot in the streets is bad. That is not hard to understand.
Destroying relics and ruins just to call attention is bad too. Why is this so hard to understand?
But they aren't destroying them, are they? The stones have been standing in the rain and snow for 3,000 years. Some powder paint is just going to wash off the next time it snows. It's not like they've taken a jackhammer to the Heel Stone.
Yeah but you know very well that this is more than "well the stones are fine!"
This is not the first time they try to destroy art or historical sites and maybe this time it's "not too bad" but in others, painting were damaged.
The point is just that this is NOT helping. This will piss people off and push them to vote for politicians that will stop these assholes. Those politicians with the tough on crime stance are the same that think climate change is a hoax.
You've shifted from "destroyed" to "damaged", I notice. The varnish of The Hay Wain was damaged, but the painting was not. The frames of various other paintings were damaged. The glass of The Rokeby Venus was damaged. Nothing compared to what Mary Richardson did in 1914.
It is literally Just Stop Oil's point that people will start wringing their handkerchiefs at these actions but they are doing nothing about the climate emergency which threatens all our lives. You think it will make a difference if these people vote for different parties? The current parties are already doing worse than nothing - Sunak is opening up new oil and gas fields.
It is not climate protesters' responsibility to persuade people to save the planet that we all live on. It is up to everybody, and too many people are not doing their share. Just Stop Oil have a right to be angry. We should all be angry.