• TachyonTele
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    8 days ago

    Defacing random things that don’t have any connect at all to what you’re protesting only makes you look bad.

    Yeah, it got attention. Bad attention.

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      Let’s be real here. What could climate protesters do that wouldn’t get them bad attention? History has shown: Nothing. There is nothing they could do that wouldn’t get them bad attention. In Germany, they even got cussed out for blocking private jets.
      Face it: The powerful do not fear retaliation from the masses if they vilify climate protesters. The protesters cannot win the PR battle. So all they have left is publicity stunts. And as far as publicity stunts go, plastering stones with water-soluble paint is about as tame as it gets.

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        The protesterscannot win the PR battle. So all they have left is publicity stunts.

        Some will likely turn towards eco terrorism within the next years of continued inaction.

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        8 days ago

        Oh I don’t know… Something that has anything to do with oil production

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          One could argue that Stonehenge is an icon of humanity’s pre-industrial, sustainable origins and as such acts as a reminder of the future that humanity will face after the ecological and civilisational collapse currently underway as a direct result of oil production. And hence Stonehenge is something to do with oil production.

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      No publicity is bad publicity, especially when you are trying to remind people what the world is being destroyed by.

      Sites of human history have no significance if there are no humans.