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submitted 4 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

The prehistoric megalithic structure in England has been targeted by activists spraying orange powder paint, social media footage showed.

Environmental protesters sprayed paint on Stonehenge on Wednesday, with footage showing an orange powder covering some of the stones.

Two protesters dressed in white were seen running towards two of the megaliths, spraying paint, as another person attempted to stop them, in footage released by Just Stop Oil, an environmental activist group focused on the issue of human-caused climate change.

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[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 75 points 4 months ago

Ffs just blow up a pipeline or sabotage parts of their infrastructure or follow the higher ups home and deface their homes.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 42 points 4 months ago

,they said, sitting at home, doing nothing.

[-] Zess@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

So they did just as much as the protesters in this case.

[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

And they did, literally destroyed a couple fuel pumps at two gas stations: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/28/just-stop-oil-protesters-sabotage-petrol-pumps-on-m25-motorway

Did you hear about that on the news? Did you see this being posted on Lemmy?

Now you know why they have to do what they do.

[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

All they do is make people not care about their cause.

[-] dukepontus@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

No, those people already dont care. They just need an excuse for their inaction.

[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Sure made me care.

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago
[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Spray painting someone's house is not a felony. Also who cares.

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago

Stalking is.

Who cares? I'm sure the people who trying to protest without becoming felons. What is this take...

[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Following someone once is not stalking. For stalking there has to be a persistent pattern. Or else women would be able to get stalkers arrested a lot more often instead of being killed by them.

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago

Fucking thank you for the nitpicking. I'm sure you can deduct where people live if you followed them somewhere once.

Christ almighty the thickness.

Encouraging people to do crimes IRL, while posting on the internet anonymously, sitting on your fat ass consuming resources that accelerate climate change.

[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

How do the boots and assholes of the Uber wealthy taste btw? From the way you are munchin down I would guess pretty good but I would like to know your first hand knowledge.

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

Explain the correlation between you not understanding what a protest is and me supposedly "munching boots".

Sit the fuck back down, basement-dweller, and enjoy people doing the hard work of resisting the status quo for you.

[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

You are the one sticking up for oil executives, not me, but sure, I'm the bad one.

[-] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is the UK. "Felonies" 🙄

But yeah it's a lot more severe and they'd probably be out of activism forever.

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Fucking so sorry my second language isn't up to par to your standards.

What's the right term here, "a proper naughty twat?"

[-] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That would be "crime".

A felony is a type of crime which doesn't exist here.

You can't just get upset if someone points out you've used a word wrong. Words have meanings and while getting it wrong, especially as a second language, isn't bad, it's still incorrect and can be confusing (e.g. most people would assume you're talking about US law when you talk about felonies).

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I can get upset when instead of correcting me in the first comment, you mocked me.

Assuming everyone's aware of the US/UK law and their nomenclature is too much sniffing of your on farts.

Or is it flatulence. Toots?

Oh and lastly, the person I replied to, listed random crimes/felonies, and didn't specify the country those crimes/felonies should be done.

[-] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

From context, it's clear that it'd be UK action, considering JSO is a UK group.

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Climate activism isn't limited to JSO

[-] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

In this thread we're talking about the effectiveness of JSOs methods and what they "should do" instead.

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

We were talking about something else before you "acktchually" this convo.

[-] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Point to the comment in this chain where we aren't talking about what JSO is/should be doing before I got involved, then. With a quote and a link.

PS there's only one comment before mine and yours and it's talking about what JSO "should" do. I'll save you time:

https://lemmy.world/comment/10732265

Ffs just blow up a pipeline or sabotage parts of their infrastructure or follow the higher ups home and deface their homes

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Right, so you think that the person thinks that vandalism of notable monuments as protest in other countries by other groups of people is fine?

It's Just JSO in UK that should act differently.

Christ, I thought they teach this shit in schools.

[-] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Or go sabotage a monument in Saudi-Arabia, they produce more oil than anyone.

Throwing orange corn starch on the Black Stone in Mecca would be amazing press.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

They won't do that. That would involve being killed. There is a reason why Peta throws red paint on old ladies wearing fur and not on biker gangs wearing leather.

The very worst thing the UK government is going to do is throw them in jail for a few months, maybe a small fine.

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