• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Normally I’m tepid on this kinda headline getting, but I feel like Stonehenge of all things is not the ideal target for the supposed intent of these kinds of protests.

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      I have the suspicion for a while that the people behind those new climate movements are paid by oil companies and others to make climate activists look bad, and shift the public opinion about climate action.

      All the actions seem to deliberately targeted to anger the mainstream about them.

      Making the naive climate activists at the front the tool of conglomerates.

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      But it raises the question why some paint on some big old rocks is more outrageous than anything the oil & gas lobby did in the past 50 years.

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        No it really doesn’t, getting called stupid is far below the standard of even the minimal consequences oil and gas companies have faced in those 50 years. Or the public condemnation of such.

        These people are the “bUt DeMs SaMe!” of facing the consequences of their own actions. The only way you could genuinely think nothing is being done and that some forever student college kids are getting harsher treatment than the most hated companies in the world is if you’re in a position of blinding privilege that obscures the real world movement in the situation.

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          There are thing done, yes, but these are too little too late and only after massive protests and public outcries for any kind of legislation to somewhat mildly stop climate change (with tummy ache).

          So on one hand we have multi millionaires and billionaires actively destroying the planet, spend decades spreading lies about it and bribing politicians (but it’s called lobbying so it’s ok)

          On the other hand we have people in their teens and 20s who throw soup at glass and paint at rocks and sit on the street.

          Guess which one goes into preventive custody and gets officially declared a suspect of extremism by German intelligence and which one every now and then has to accommodate to some laws taking effect 10 years into the future, which will most likely be abolished before then.

          I just wish it was the other way around…

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            You’re just saying all this because you think anything short of guillotining them is “too little too late”, I work in renewables, I literally have a paycheck because of how flat out objectively wrong you are about almost everything you just said.

            They want you to despair and to think they’re untouchable, don’t be the idiot who actually buys what they’re selling.

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      Why not? They used starch. It’s not like Stonehenge is actually damaged. And using symbols people care about is the only way to convey that the crisis we’re facing is actually threatening things we care about. Everything else will be, and has been, ignored.

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        Because it was built by Naturepath druids.

        They vandalized a structure that represents the purest distillment europeans may have achieved of their ideal vision thus far in human history.

        That’d be like me demanding bike infrastructure by bombing Amsterdam.

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            It was the Bronze and Iron age, even the people who swore they didn’t do human sacrifice had sneaky backdoor rituals that played out human sacrifice, cough cough Romans cough cough

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      The intent is to get people to talk about them and their message.

      Well known monuments are great for that kinda stuff.

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        Yeah, we’re all talking about what unhinged dicks they are and wishing for them to be disbanded. Great job!