” Dramatically arrested”
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“Couldn’t finish her hash browns”
.
Good grief! I guess it is the DT, what should I expect?
These articles typically always omit that the paintings are almost always completely unharmed, as they are typically behind protective glass.
The reasoning these activists use is that the UK government has been steamrolling over the legal rights to protest, which they have. If they stopped cracking down on legal protesting, they’d have a normal avenue to protest and likely wouldn’t need to do shit like this.
Edit: methods like this mean they also highlight and target the property of wealthy entities that use them to circumvent financial systems. I would not however support blocking emergency workers on roads. That only happens a fraction of the time but gets blown out of proportion to direct public outrage deliberately.
I don’t like that it’s happening either. Which is why it annoys me that this doesn’t need to happen, if policy makers took the issues that these people are protesting for seriously, this mess wouldn’t be happening. If there was more actual consulting with the public and experts through something like a people’s assembly with more immediate and reflective communication, it would completely bypass the need for this. But right now, enough people feel that insufficient attention is being given to these issues and that the system is incapable of responding to them adequately and in time so for them, this is now the only way to get heard. People just want a voice that actually gets listened to, and it’s shit that there are people in society who genuinely believe that we are at that point now. And they’re right.
History will look back on her alright.
What’s the sentence for splashing soup on a frame these days anyway?
Quite a few protesters now who understandably don’t have an issue with being arrested and seemingly enough who don’t mind being imprisoned either. They believe their cause justifies it.
I doubt this protester will be the last to break a court order.
If they want to stop JSO, XR, etc; they’re going to need more prison space.
How will the protective glass ever recover.
Absolute state of this country, that we hold the speculative price of a painting over the health of our literal planet and every living being that inhabits it, and I say this as an artist.
Just Stop Oil protestor who threw soup over the picture frame that holds Van Goghs Sunflowers is arrested FTFY
Should’ve recorded it and put it on tiktok and get away with it like that “prankster” guy
I do not care about a painting, i dont care about snooker and i dont give two sh*ts about football.
I care about the right to protest being taken away. I care about the billions in public funds being given away to friends of the tories. I care about our environment.
If you spend your time whinging about how JSO has gone too far, maybe you’re part of the problem.
In making her a martyr it gives her the power and the publicity that she needs to get the point of her protest across to the public.
She breached her bail conditions, that’s how the law is meant to work.
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Protestors arrested but tik tok morons like mizzy free to do as they please.
Great so we can arrest a girl for throwing soup over a painting but we can’t arrest that kid for breaking into someone’s home, harassing passer-by’s and wrecking a shop?
Not that she shouldn’t have been arrested but it’s good to know what is and isn’t allowed.
Self important bastards ruining pieces of history. No doubt it wouldn’t be the original or would be covered with protection, but these daft bastards are pointless.
She was doing a speaking tour recently judging by the flyers I’ve seen.
Not really sure what, if any insights an audience could glean from such a person. If anything it speaks to the self-aggrandising nature of Just Stop Oil.
Say what you want about their methods, they’re on the right side of history.
Can we please ban the Mail as a source here, its an absolute pox on the subreddit
Ffs poor little rich girl needs to get a job like most of us.
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I consider myself a pretty to be pretty serious about the environment but I hate these ‘Just Stop Oil’ lot. It’s not helping the cause.
The statement they’re rallying around is so vague and broad and unfeasible that’s they’re never going to succeed with their aims they’re just going to get more and more disruptive, turn more people away from the cause and give the government more grounds to roll out harsh restrictions on protesting. If I didn’t know any better I’d bet they were actually funded by the oil companies.
Stopping oil completely is never going to happen, there’s so many applications for which there’s no reasonable alternative. Majority of medicines are made from it, so many plastics needed for medical and industrial purposes for which there are no alternatives, then there’s the fact that when it comes to jet fuel and fuel to burn to smelt metals we have no real alternative. And you’re going to need to melt down a load of metal and use a load of plastic to build all these new EVs, windfarms, solar panels etc etc.
Then you have the fact that billions of people have been lifted out of poverty in developing nations through cheap access to fossil fuels, you can’t force them back into poverty and misery just because developed nations have burnt enough fossil fuels to build their economies and green infrastructure and now they want to shut up shop and deny poorer nations the chance to catch up.
If you’re serious about environmental change it needs targeted action with real purpose. Let’s stop wasting energy manufacturing cheap products that break easily and end up filling landfills. Let’s stop shipping in all of our goods from s.e Asia where were able to take advantage of cheap labour and poor worker and environmental protections that bring costs down, lets put in regulations that force countries to manufacture their own goods and stop burning so much fuel sending shipping containers back and forth around the world. Let’s ban making phones, cars and tech products that are forced into obsolescence after a year or two meaning people have to go out and buy the latest model every year or two. Let’s ban fast fashion and cheaply made clothes made to wear once and go in the bin.
You don’t need to ban fossil fuels, you need to work to stop the rampant consumerism the world is hooked on that is leading to the rapid depletion of these resources.
Also cut out carbon offsetting. I was reading about a UK business called solid carbon storage that offsets carbon for big companies by mining coal in namibia and shipping it to the uk to be buried again, which somehow supposedly offsets the carbon and saves the environment. It’s insanity.
The whole movement has been co-opted by bad actors looking to make a quick buck while the world dies + a legion of middle class people staging ineffective protests to try and alleviate their guilt without actually thinking about the solutions this issue needs. it’s a lot of noise and no real action.
The environment and climate change is a complex issue that needs well thought out solutions and grown up discussions. Not people rallying around catchy slogans that offer no real solutions. Any protest movement that has been successful has had clear aims and a clear solution offered – whether that’s voting rights, civil rights, workers rights, LGBTQ rights – without that you’ll never achieve a resolve because you’re not offering a resolution to the protest in the first place.
Pathetic from the government. There is nothing wrong with this protest. Not to mention the artwork is intact.
Daily Heil: Freeze peach! Stop jailing those who voice an opinion
Also Daily Hail: Hurrah for the Blackshirts. Gas the left who dare critical the government
I get people get mad but i can understand the concept of “if our collective future is fucked who gives a shit about this”
I was on the fence about these protests to start with, but now I’m fully behind them. I have nothing but sympathy for the younger generations and the bleak fucking future we have given them. Now with the Tories making it all but impossible to protest legally, it’s no surprise they’re lashing out at a world that has it’s priorities completely fucking out of whack.
Brave gal 👏 like it or hate it she is risking more for her cause than most would dare to, and I think that is honorable
I don’t condone such acts and I used to think of them idiots as well, however I am starting to see their point of view and why they choose this particular course of action(s).
The severity with which they were ridiculed, abused, arrested and possibly charged over “destruction” of a painting is frankly nauseating. The government or the people couldn’t give two shits about the environment, which evidently we only have one of and can’t possibly be recreated anytime soon vs “destruction” of a painting that can easily be recreated.
There’s a word for this you know.
Oh look yet another daily mail article, what the hell happened to this sub?
Property damage – that’s the one thing that’ll get you every time. Rape, murder, deviant sexual practices? You’re very naughty … 120 hours community service!
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” Dramatically arrested”
.
“Couldn’t finish her hash browns”
.
Good grief! I guess it is the DT, what should I expect?
These articles typically always omit that the paintings are almost always completely unharmed, as they are typically behind protective glass.
The reasoning these activists use is that the UK government has been steamrolling over the legal rights to protest, which they have. If they stopped cracking down on legal protesting, they’d have a normal avenue to protest and likely wouldn’t need to do shit like this.
Edit: methods like this mean they also highlight and target the property of wealthy entities that use them to circumvent financial systems. I would not however support blocking emergency workers on roads. That only happens a fraction of the time but gets blown out of proportion to direct public outrage deliberately.
I don’t like that it’s happening either. Which is why it annoys me that this doesn’t need to happen, if policy makers took the issues that these people are protesting for seriously, this mess wouldn’t be happening. If there was more actual consulting with the public and experts through something like a people’s assembly with more immediate and reflective communication, it would completely bypass the need for this. But right now, enough people feel that insufficient attention is being given to these issues and that the system is incapable of responding to them adequately and in time so for them, this is now the only way to get heard. People just want a voice that actually gets listened to, and it’s shit that there are people in society who genuinely believe that we are at that point now. And they’re right.
History will look back on her alright.
What’s the sentence for splashing soup on a frame these days anyway?
Quite a few protesters now who understandably don’t have an issue with being arrested and seemingly enough who don’t mind being imprisoned either. They believe their cause justifies it.
I doubt this protester will be the last to break a court order.
If they want to stop JSO, XR, etc; they’re going to need more prison space.
How will the protective glass ever recover.
Absolute state of this country, that we hold the speculative price of a painting over the health of our literal planet and every living being that inhabits it, and I say this as an artist.
Just Stop Oil protestor who threw soup over the picture frame that holds Van Goghs Sunflowers is arrested FTFY
Should’ve recorded it and put it on tiktok and get away with it like that “prankster” guy
I do not care about a painting, i dont care about snooker and i dont give two sh*ts about football.
I care about the right to protest being taken away. I care about the billions in public funds being given away to friends of the tories. I care about our environment.
If you spend your time whinging about how JSO has gone too far, maybe you’re part of the problem.
In making her a martyr it gives her the power and the publicity that she needs to get the point of her protest across to the public.
She breached her bail conditions, that’s how the law is meant to work.
[deleted]
Protestors arrested but tik tok morons like mizzy free to do as they please.
Great so we can arrest a girl for throwing soup over a painting but we can’t arrest that kid for breaking into someone’s home, harassing passer-by’s and wrecking a shop?
Not that she shouldn’t have been arrested but it’s good to know what is and isn’t allowed.
Self important bastards ruining pieces of history. No doubt it wouldn’t be the original or would be covered with protection, but these daft bastards are pointless.
She was doing a speaking tour recently judging by the flyers I’ve seen.
Not really sure what, if any insights an audience could glean from such a person. If anything it speaks to the self-aggrandising nature of Just Stop Oil.
Say what you want about their methods, they’re on the right side of history.
Can we please ban the Mail as a source here, its an absolute pox on the subreddit
Ffs poor little rich girl needs to get a job like most of us.
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I consider myself a pretty to be pretty serious about the environment but I hate these ‘Just Stop Oil’ lot. It’s not helping the cause.
The statement they’re rallying around is so vague and broad and unfeasible that’s they’re never going to succeed with their aims they’re just going to get more and more disruptive, turn more people away from the cause and give the government more grounds to roll out harsh restrictions on protesting. If I didn’t know any better I’d bet they were actually funded by the oil companies.
Stopping oil completely is never going to happen, there’s so many applications for which there’s no reasonable alternative. Majority of medicines are made from it, so many plastics needed for medical and industrial purposes for which there are no alternatives, then there’s the fact that when it comes to jet fuel and fuel to burn to smelt metals we have no real alternative. And you’re going to need to melt down a load of metal and use a load of plastic to build all these new EVs, windfarms, solar panels etc etc.
Then you have the fact that billions of people have been lifted out of poverty in developing nations through cheap access to fossil fuels, you can’t force them back into poverty and misery just because developed nations have burnt enough fossil fuels to build their economies and green infrastructure and now they want to shut up shop and deny poorer nations the chance to catch up.
If you’re serious about environmental change it needs targeted action with real purpose. Let’s stop wasting energy manufacturing cheap products that break easily and end up filling landfills. Let’s stop shipping in all of our goods from s.e Asia where were able to take advantage of cheap labour and poor worker and environmental protections that bring costs down, lets put in regulations that force countries to manufacture their own goods and stop burning so much fuel sending shipping containers back and forth around the world. Let’s ban making phones, cars and tech products that are forced into obsolescence after a year or two meaning people have to go out and buy the latest model every year or two. Let’s ban fast fashion and cheaply made clothes made to wear once and go in the bin.
You don’t need to ban fossil fuels, you need to work to stop the rampant consumerism the world is hooked on that is leading to the rapid depletion of these resources.
Also cut out carbon offsetting. I was reading about a UK business called solid carbon storage that offsets carbon for big companies by mining coal in namibia and shipping it to the uk to be buried again, which somehow supposedly offsets the carbon and saves the environment. It’s insanity.
The whole movement has been co-opted by bad actors looking to make a quick buck while the world dies + a legion of middle class people staging ineffective protests to try and alleviate their guilt without actually thinking about the solutions this issue needs. it’s a lot of noise and no real action.
The environment and climate change is a complex issue that needs well thought out solutions and grown up discussions. Not people rallying around catchy slogans that offer no real solutions. Any protest movement that has been successful has had clear aims and a clear solution offered – whether that’s voting rights, civil rights, workers rights, LGBTQ rights – without that you’ll never achieve a resolve because you’re not offering a resolution to the protest in the first place.
Pathetic from the government. There is nothing wrong with this protest. Not to mention the artwork is intact.
Daily Heil: Freeze peach! Stop jailing those who voice an opinion
Also Daily Hail: Hurrah for the Blackshirts. Gas the left who dare critical the government
I get people get mad but i can understand the concept of “if our collective future is fucked who gives a shit about this”
I was on the fence about these protests to start with, but now I’m fully behind them. I have nothing but sympathy for the younger generations and the bleak fucking future we have given them. Now with the Tories making it all but impossible to protest legally, it’s no surprise they’re lashing out at a world that has it’s priorities completely fucking out of whack.
Brave gal 👏 like it or hate it she is risking more for her cause than most would dare to, and I think that is honorable
I don’t condone such acts and I used to think of them idiots as well, however I am starting to see their point of view and why they choose this particular course of action(s).
The severity with which they were ridiculed, abused, arrested and possibly charged over “destruction” of a painting is frankly nauseating. The government or the people couldn’t give two shits about the environment, which evidently we only have one of and can’t possibly be recreated anytime soon vs “destruction” of a painting that can easily be recreated.
There’s a word for this you know.
Oh look yet another daily mail article, what the hell happened to this sub?
Property damage – that’s the one thing that’ll get you every time. Rape, murder, deviant sexual practices? You’re very naughty … 120 hours community service!