"Climate change activists" throw tomato soup over Van Gogh painting; glue themselves to wall

[FelineOverlord]

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[RAB910]

1. These are not climate activists

these are anarchist assholes

[MarineCombatEngineer]

4. I suspect you're right.

No true climate activist would do such a thing, but anarchists would just for the sake of destruction.

[yardwork]

13. These are entitled assholes. Throw the book at them.

[LeftInTX]

22. Ever hear of Earth Liberation Front?

[sir pball]

25. Yeah, I helped beat the shit out of one of them back in the day lol

The little fuckstick was outside an Earth Crisis show waving a sign that said "Spike Trees - Kill The Tree Killers - Earth Liberation Front". It wasn't as well-received as he thought it would be, even at an EC show. I just got a couple kicks in, but watching a rather large guy smash the punk's head with the stock his sign had been mounted on was immensely satisfying

[maxsolomon]

38. that sounds like assault.

what a great memory.

[sir pball]

41. I had a friend get his teeth kicked in for eating BK outside before a show

By a crowd of militant vegans, it was all the rage in the mid-90s. That and the sXe ("straightedge&quot punks attacking people smoking weed. Fuck 'em, turnabout is fair play.

[maxsolomon]

39. "no true scotsman", eh?

maybe they're just horribly misguided climate activists.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

40. Couple of young women with an attention grabbing scheme

Stupid move that's not going to change anyone's mind.

[betsuni]

43. Looks like an ad for Heinz.

[area51]

48. +1 n/t

[misanthrope]

52. Those chemicals she used for her hair

How does their production and shipping affect the ecosphere?

[Duppers]

45. ✔️✔️✔️✔️

[MarineCombatEngineer]

2. Oh yeah, this will gain them support for their cause on climate change.

How does throwing paint on a Van Gogh painting help?

[Takket]

3. It gets attention. That's why.

[FalloutShelter]

5. WTAF?

How does vandalizing a painting have anything to do with climate activism?

The only thing I can think of is that it is a good way to get attention… but it is negative attention.

Does it prove the old meme? “There is no such thing as bad publicity”

[Scrivener7]

6. Imbeciles.

[sir pball]

7. They should be given "community service"...

…a month of roughnecking at an oil drilling station.

Why yes, my feelings for these shitheeled thugs pass through mere contempt into vengeance. Fuck these useless vandals with a rusty drill pipe.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. The painting is behind glass

so it is not "destroyed".

A video shows the two women wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts gluing one hand each to the wall below the painting, which is protected by a pane of glass.

https://news.sky.com/story/just-stop-oil-protesters-throw-tomato-soup-over-van-goghs-sunflowers-masterpiece-12720183

And that means they don't have to be "just anarchists". This is a publicity stunt, but there's no reason to think they aren't genuinely protesting about what they say they are.

[Brenda]

17. Don't bother bringing reality into the "discussion."

It's more fun for Twitter and DU to get all self-righteous, indignant and outraged over those horrible climate activists over something they actually did not do.

Depressing how low reading comprehension has dropped. Is it drugs?

[yardwork]

19. How is their behavior any less poor because the painting was protected?

They're entitled assholes who vandalized a painting that belongs to all of us in a misguided, counter-productive stunt. The fact that the painting was protected doesn't negate their behavior.

[Brenda]

21. It's called activism.

They've been doing this for awhile to get attention which they are. They have not harmed the artwork, it was not VANDALIZED. It is not misguided you simply don't like their tactics.

Sounds a lot like the people who didn't like MLK's "stunts" and Rosa Parks activities and of course the Freedom Riders.

[LeftInTX]

24. How does throwing soup help their cause?

Rosa Parks and MLK organized boycotts because of their Jim Crow seating policy. This was because African-Americans were a major source of income for the transit company. Without African-Americans passengers, the bus company couldn't make money.

MLK could have also thrown soup, but he didn't...There were plenty of cans of soup available back then!

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. It's got a headline, and a mention that new oil and gas licences are being issued

Licences are being made available for sectors of the North Sea, known as blocks, with the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) estimating over 100 may be granted.

The decision defies warnings from the world's leading energy organisation, the International Energy Agency, that no new fossil fuel project is compatible with efforts to curb global heating, which is driven primarily by burning fossil fuels.

An analysis of the UK's untapped North Sea oil and gas fields by US-based Global Energy Monitor warned just yesterday that developing even one of them would run counter to the UK's climate goals.
...
"Yet again this government's energy policy benefits fossil fuel companies and no one else," said Philip Evans, energy transition campaigner for Greenpeace UK.

https://news.sky.com/story/new-oil-and-gas-licensing-will-boost-economy-and-energy-security-says-jacob-rees-mogg-12714100

[Brenda]

28. Maybe learn about them.

Just Stop Oil began in the UK and that's where most of their protests have been. Tried to link to them but website won't load...probably hacked by all the haters who are in denial about the planet.

[LeftInTX]

30. MLK did not throw soup

[yardwork]

32. Oh, bullshit. It's absolutely vandalism.

Somebody had to clean up their mess. And to compare the spoiled antics of white kids to Black activism is deeply offensive. I'm white and I see how offensive it is.

[Brenda]

34. My comparison was about tactics used in protesting.

MLK was derided by many white mainstream people, including liberals and Dems for his "outspoken" protesting instead of working within the system, which obviously was wrong on their part.

Attacking climate activists as spoiled antics by white kids is as offensive to me as your perceived offense.

Who cleaned up the mess of any protesting, ever? Viet Nam protests, BLM protests, etc. etc.

The point I was making was that the racists and conservatives who have and continue to attack protestors always use terms like "stunt" "antic" or others to dismiss them. They've used this on BLM, LGBQ, feminist, etc. activists forever.

So, why are people willing to side with those people just because they're climate activists, which one could say is the ultimate activism that affects all life on earth?

[betsuni]

44. +1

[harumph]

35. Yes MLK and Rose Parks were famous for vandalizing art!

Your comparison is brilliant!

[mopinko]

26. even if it wasnt, tomato soup isnt that caustic.

not a big deal to clean it off.

[Xoan]

33. No reason to believe they are!

Genuinely idiots.

[honest.abe]

9. Idiots.

[SYFROYH]

10. These were Andy Warhol activists in actuality

[betsuni]

46. First thing I thought of. They're far too young to know that if you're going to throw soup around

in an art gallery, it should be Campbell's.

[FelineOverlord]

11. Van Gogh

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Is trending at #1 on Twitter, so they got the attention they wanted.

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[Just A Box Of Rain]

18. Bad for us.

[iemanja]

42. There is no life without art

Little shit stains.

[Sympthsical]

12. The painting's fine

It's behind glass.

Twitter needs to read articles all the way through once in awhile.

That said, it was attention getting, sure. But what does Van Gogh have to do with climate? Weird choice.

But hey, people are paying attention, so I guess it worked? Not sure it's the kind they were hoping for though.

[3Hotdogs]

14. --- way I figure it,

let 'em stay glued to the wall for about six months.

[Paladin]

15. Makes me feel like starting a forest fire.

I won't do it, but that's what stupid, destructive shit like this makes me feel like doing, by way of retribution. And just wait: the brain-dead little fuckers won't receive anything close to the punishment they deserve for this sick stunt.

[keithbvadu2]

16. 'glue themselves to wall' - Just leave them there.

'glue themselves to wall' -

Just leave them there.

No food, water, bathroom break, visitors, news crew

Let them rip their skin off the wall.

[LeftInTX]

20. Sunflower oil is a major source of atmospheric CO2...

These stunts seem to enrage everyone (left and right), but ultimately become Fox News fodder...

Fox: "Antifa throws soup at Van Gogh", "Left-wing activists throw soup at Van Gogh"

[Hieronymus Phact]

23. Wait until they get the bill for the Restoration -nt

[mopinko]

29. it's behind glass, but even if it wasnt, it's not gonna hurt an oil painting.

esp 1 as thick as a van gogh.
it's an hour in the conversation dept, max.

[Hieronymus Phact]

49. I didn't know it was protected, that's a relief.

I was thinking the same thing: How much harm can it do to oil paint but:
Tomatoes have a lot of acids in them and i wondered if it could stain the pigments.
also it could get into whatever age-craquelure has occurred and be a problem in there.

[mopinko]

50. tomato soup is not as acid as tomatoes.

quite tempered. prolly take up a lot of gunk, and the painting would be better for it.

[Emile]

31. Pretenders

[Talitha]

36. They wanted attention?

They should've sat on the curb outside and set themselves on fire.

Much bigger audience.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

37. +100. nt

[EndlessWire]

47. I am relieved to learn that the painting isn't harmed.

Have to search people for soup cans, I guess.

Crazy times. My first thought was to think of Donald throwing the ketchup on the WH wall. And, sunflowers, a favorite of mine, always now reminds me of Ukraine. Can't reconcile these thoughts with Van Gogh getting plastered with Campbell's Soup.

Vandalism, pure and simple. I'm in favor of activism, but not this.

[jmowreader]

51. Okay, so let me get this straight

Two women wearing petroleum-derived hair color, clothing and cosmetics entered a museum probably heated with non-petroleum-derived fuel, threw soup that has LOTS of petroleum in its life cycle at a painting that contains no petroleum, glued their hands to the wall with petroleum-based cyanoacrylate glue, and will have to be freed from the wall with a petroleum-based solvent before they're cast into handcuffs made with petroleum and taken to jail in a petroleum-fueled cop car, where they will be fingerprinted with petroleum-based ink, have their booking documents which were transported to the police station in a petroleum-fueled vehicle be filled out with petroleum-based ink, and will be thrown in a jail cell painted with petroleum-based paint until someone in a petroleum-fueled vehicle arrives to spend money that also has lots of petroleum in its life cycle to bail them out. And they did all of this to protest the use of petroleum.

And they wonder why people laugh at climate change activists!

[IcyPeas]

53. But it's an OIL Painting. they thought it was bad.

seriously just leave them glued to the wall .

[orleans]

54. oh yes, soup and glue will really help the climate nt