“Kevin, how did you meet your husband?”

“Well, it’s a funny story, but we meet at this dumb Trump movie in NC…”

Why watch a movie, when you could get a random screed from the source himself at 3AM, which you can read in about 30sec?

Sounds like some firmware updates are in order.

I hope he eventually dyes his hair the same color, too.

Either one of them. It would be weird either way.

Because as we know, picture frames are famously liquid-tight containers…wait…

Well, now I’m gonna. You can’t tell me what to do! /s

Do you think the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because White Moderates “voted” in favor of it?

It would not have succeeded otherwise, since they were the ones in power.

Similarly, Just Stop Oil’s path to victory has absolutely fuck-all to do with popular “approval” of their tactics, but everything to do with becoming so disruptive that it becomes worth it to capitulate to their demands to make the protests stop.

And look how well that’s working out: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/commentary/public-disapproval-of-disruptive-climate-change-protests/

Spamming the false notion that approval matters all over the thread is nothing but the reactionary pearl-clutching of a concern troll.

Sounds like somebody is butthurt that they realize they don’t actually have a good defense other than nihilism. Refute my points, if you have a problem, but ad hominem attacks aren’t a valid justification why my points are invalid.

Re: protest history: Like how the suffragettes sent letter bombs to people? It is not a cut and dry, “I’m right, therefore anything I do is unimpeachable.”

Nobody deserves a free pass to use any means they deem necessary by virtue of fighting for what we/they consider the “right things.”

Those people who disapprove vote. They absolutely matter, and pretending they don’t is why JSO will continue to lose.

We all know what the Streisand Effect is, so the logical result here is that more and more people will hear about the practice, more people will do it, and the public and those in power will get the message - you can’t weaponise the legal system against us anymore.

I know what it is, but I do not agree that it’s the logical result, and we do not know for a fact that it will cause people to become activists as a result. What you’re essentially saying is that the governments will clamp down harder and harder, and The Free People will Unionize™! Meanwhile, we have contemporary and historical examples where that didn’t happen.

So I reject your following premises as wishful thinking. The people in power aren’t scared of nullified juries, because judges can override juries, and the powers that be have the additional capability to use extrajudicial tactics while claiming plausible deniability in the public square.

I understand and appreciate people’s desire to revolt—movies and books have made it appear very romantic—but activists are not going to change the world without the power of the governments. They would be better served by running for office rather than running from the State.

However, it is not until the fifth paragraph that the article notes that “the food did not cause any damage to the piece.” This raises the question, does the public differentiate between “damaging pieces of art” and “pretending to damage pieces of art” in their views of these non-violent, disruptive protests?

That’s the thing. Did they know for a fact that what they did was not going to cause damage. I suspect they didn’t care, and the fact that they didn’t cause damage is likely in spite of their tactics.

As for my analogy, like all analogies, it is imperfect. The point is that the effort to “inform people” isn’t enough anymore. Virtually everyone has heard the message that Big Oil is bad and climate change is happening; whether they choose to accept it is a different matter, and on that front JSO is making no headway, as evidenced by that study.

People need a goal and a path to get there, and defacing public art isn’t something average people will follow.

Also, thank you for the well-wishes. I hope you have a lovely day, too.

Hard to find Rams’ Blood in a can at the grocery store, this time of year.

Gross. You are deeply unserious if you think bombing and terrorism are valid tactics, and that the governments just bowed down out of fear.

Go read up on it yourself. I’m not here to coddle your laziness.

Who needs to be woken up? Who hasn’t heard of climate change or Big Oil? Is defacing a public artifact going to sway Conservatives or Centrists?

Because at 86% of people saying that these acts either don’t change their views on climate activism or that they negatively affect them, this seems like it’s just “putting people to sleep.”

I suggest you introspect as to why the potential (or even actual) damage of artifacts makes you so angry.

I told you why. It’s not my fault you refuse to read.

Why don’t all the artifacts that were lost to time make you angry as well?

Because “time” isn’t a conscious agent.

That anger can be easily manipulated by your environment to make you do things against your self interest.

You mean like throwing soup on a painting, accomplishing nothing, and getting a prison sentence? Lol

Edit: clarified a word.

What’s the point of destroying artifacts if it doesn’t accomplish your goals?

https://web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/commentary/public-disapproval-of-disruptive-climate-change-protests/

They won in spite of their tactics, because the terrorism they caused didn’t actually work.

I think you mentioned that you were mapping gyro as right stick? Is there a reason you don’t use it as a mouse instead? The Steam version I think supports dual input, no?

I can give it a try at home, but I suspect there’s something else going on. When you use gyro, are you using it when you touch the right stick? Are you using it when you touch the right pad? How is it being activated?

I’ll just leave this here: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/commentary/public-disapproval-of-disruptive-climate-change-protests/