• Pisodeuorrior@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Also, this seems like a much, MUCH better PR move than throwing paint at masterpieces in fucking museums.
    I don’t know who thought that was something that would have moved the public opinion towards their cause.

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      1 year ago

      Well it did seem to do a good job bringing attention to their cause. And, the worst damage incurred over the dozens of demonstrations was some minor frame damage. Imo it was kind of a brilliant scheme to get worldwide attention for the price of some tomato soup

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        1 year ago

        Didn’t they choose art pieces which were protected by a glass window anyways? Getting so much attention with so little damage seems like a good move to be honest.

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        Nah, that was pretty useless because it just brought ridicule to them and the cause. A lot like gluing themselves to public surfaces, which anyone I talk to remembers laughingly, but nobody can tell me what they were protesting. That’s completely useless.

        This actually gets the point across.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t even know what you’re talking about so apparently it didn’t do that good of a job

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      They were throwing paint into corporate offices and CEO’s cars at the same time. The media chose to put the art vandalism on blast. I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out the art vandalism was the idea of a corporate mole.

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          No, I can believe that true believers thought that art vandalism was a good idea, but I’m just skeptical about where the idea originated from.

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        1 year ago

        Not to sound like a dick, but you sort of sound like Matt Gaetz accusing Antifa of J6.

        There is zero proof that these people are moles. I’d be hard pressed to find a white 20 something to act the part of a climate activist, on the behalf of the oil companies.