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Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers (www.theguardian.com)
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This was the one soup-throwing which did any damage at all; in this case to the frame.

The penalty is appreciably worse than for minor violent attacks.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

They don't do it to become popular. They want to throw a wrench in the works to wake people up.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ok, what’s “the works” here then? The museum? Civil society? Art?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

In this case just everydays course of affairs. Generally, the disruption of the machine.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

Who needs to be woken up? Who hasn't heard of climate change or Big Oil? Is defacing a public artifact going to sway Conservatives or Centrists?

Because at 86% of people saying that these acts either don't change their views on climate activism or that they negatively affect them, this seems like it's just "putting people to sleep."