• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    You’re reading this in a newspaper. It’s in no way limited to art enjoyers.

    Not that I have any idea why you think art enjoyers are particularly climate conscious. Or that their consciousness extends to actually doing anything rather than just thinking it would be nice if the environment was cleaner.

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      2 months ago

      The level of disdain you have for people who are already ideologically aligned with you is insane, especially considering that you believe that this kind of action, in addition, is just what is needed to win them over. Are we running on battered spouse rules or something?

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        2 months ago

        You’ve come in parading around with smug posts about how dumb these kids are and how pointless the general idea of public protest is. You complaining about people being disdainful is very much worthy of disdain.

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          2 months ago

          and how pointless the general idea of public protest is.

          Me: “All I ask is that you don’t attempt to damage historical artifacts. Other property damage or human damage is fine.”

          “WOW YOU DON’T BELIEVE IN PUBLIC PROTEST”

          10/10

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            2 months ago

            I’m sure that’s how you see yourself in your mind. The rest of us read your posts that are definitely not just about historical artifacts and frankly smell of the white moderate concern of not having regular life disrupted by annoying activists. Your examples of valid protest are violence or vandalism against specific wrongdoers, not say the regular stuff like blocking traffic or vandalizing (non-priceless) surfaces in places that are visible to a mass audience rather than comfortably protected behind fences and security checkpoints.

            This chain literally started with you responding to someone daydreaming about physically assaulting the young protesters with:

            No no, you see, it’s for THEIR cause. The beatings would be happening to raise awareness of climate change, not to support oil companies. Isn’t that the logic, here? There’s no other relevance of attempted vandalism of a painting by a man who died before climate change was even fully understood. The cause is all-important; the act just a detail to catch eyes, apparently.

            And paired with posts about how they’re only doing it for attention and an activists very symbolic public suicide by a method almost exclusively used as a protest action was probably unrelated to his activism. Yes, very much a level-headed non-disdainful simple art enjoyer who respects protest. As long as the targets deserve it and no one cares.

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              2 months ago

              This chain literally started with you responding to someone daydreaming about physically assaulting the young protesters with:

              The point of that, something that you seem to have still missed, was not “I want to hurt them for being idiots”, though that may have been secondary, but “If the act doesn’t matter, just the cause, by principle that leads to absurd things, like acts with no conceivable serious connection with the cause being touted as a great success for that cause simply for linking the name of the act and the cause.”

              not say the regular stuff like blocking traffic or vandalizing (non-priceless) surfaces in places that are visible to a mass audience rather than comfortably protected behind fences and security checkpoints.

              I literally cite arson, riots, and general strikes as valid, but go off I guess.