Spanish climate activists sprayed red paint across a superyacht owned by billionaire Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie in Barcelona on Friday, the second time the yacht has been the target of protests in the past two months.
Fire is harder to wash off
Even harder when you spray with gasoline first.
Cleanse the yacht with holy fire!
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I have an idea. Destroying it probably just gets written off from insurance.
Wash the boat with undiluted pine sol.
Literally no damage done to the boat will ever actually financially harm the bitchionaire. That’s not the goal of protest - though it’s certainly a bonus when it’s achievable.
Everyone’s complaining that this doesn’t do anything and is counter productive, but you know what this looks like to me?
Propaganda of the deed. Someone will look at this and think “I know better things to spray her superyacht with than paint…”
Make sure it’s something that will take her servants an extra hard time to clean
The bottom of the ocean would be pretty hard to clean.
They should put the billionaire on the bottom of the ocean, not the boat. The boat might be useful for something.
Billionaire’s yacht? Hardly. But it may be scrapped. Expensive furniture and tech sold, high quality engine and parts repurposed.
Yeah, then her servants would have to start filing paperwork and have another yacht pulled out of storage while they design the new one.
Not if the bottom-of-the-ocean thing happens when the oligarch in question is on board.
ADMIRALTY ORDERS
To Cpt. S. Technique
‘Intercept Walmart billionaire’s megayacht KAOS en route to extinction, INTENT ON CARRYING US ALL TO THOSE WATERS…Sink, Burn, or take her a Prize’
As an added bonus lots of chemicals and crap will be put into the environment.
Yup this sounds productive to vandalize someone’s boat.
Supposedly they used biodegradable paint. On that measure, you can’t fault them.
Tell us you didn’t read the article without saying that. Plus even if they had used normal paint, that’s literally nothing compared to what this yacht does on a regular basis.
Good. Symbolic protests are a way to surface issues suppressed by the dominant ideology. If it gets any media coverage it is a success.
All billionaires are ethically in the wrong.
Not really but this one in particular is the Michael Jordan of drunk driving and I believe got away with manslaughter.
Yes, really. There are no ethically sound reasons for a person to have all this money when there is so much inequality. Moreover, there is no ethical ways to accumulate all this money. If you are billionaire either you or your daddy had to do a lot of explicitly unethical shit, and in order to retain it, you have to do unethical shit, actively, right now.
Capitalism, no matter how benign, and well intended, is literally exploiting labor from those who are lesss fortunate. And thanks to that malignant leprechaun Milton Friedman, every MBA since thinks that they’re legally bound to maximize dividends for investors instead of compensating the people who do the actual production. It’s obscene, sociopathic, and literally evil. But if Jeebus didn’t want them to rich, they wouldn’t be, right?
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Bigot.
Expound.
Fuck yeah. They should live in constant and non-stop fear of the people they hoard from
“Fear”
You really think they give a shit? About something like this? They just pay someone $200 to clean the yacht. Sink it and they just buy a new one. This isn’t anything.
Lol you haven’t seen many rich people have you? This is definitely something they fear.
Oh ok. That’s fair I guess if you’ve found a better way. What have you done?
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Ok how many unions or political organizations are you directly involved in? If the answer isn’t something above bare minimum then I’m still firmly on team fuck superyachts.
Are you the person that spray painted the yacht? If not, then you’re just talking shit and doing nothing.
That’s better than telling people doing anything to stop 🙃
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I stopped shopping at Walmart and started shopping on Amazon. By switching what billionaires I support I am going my part.
Sad thing is, Amazons profit margins on their shopping shit is razor thin. It’s AWS that is making bank, and that’s like half of the servers on the internet.
They SHOULD, but this won’t accomplish that.
Let’s think of something better.
Look no further than medieval French engineering!
Time for some TrebuchetMemes?
Did you know a trebuchet can use a counterweight to throw a 90KG projectile over 300 metres?
All jokes aside, and we might agree in some specifics -
Any new order that was established needs to limit the violence as much as possible. Because revolutionary violence as often as not eats the children of revolution.
In the meantime though…
Good read
Wouldn’t hurt to complement it with one of their more modern techniques - large crowds using Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, Nitrogen and Oxygen
it’s a great start.
Governments should stop billionaires. Tax them 100% income tax after a certain amount of income, tax them 50%% of their networth yearly after a certain amount of value.
The government is now controlled, more or less, by said billionaires - too late?
I don’t think there ever was a time where not the richest were in power. From warlords to kings and now politicians in the pockets of CEO’s or shareholders by extension, people in power amass riches and with it more power.
Your post makes it sound like it was any different in the past. I certainly don’t remember that.
Nah, there’s more to tinker with, but fixable.
How dare these activists do anything other than overthrowing the government and instituting a socialist utopia. I just can’t support this.
Let’s make it a third time
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Manure is pretty cheap.
Also, manure is a good source of potassium nitrate…
What an incendiary thought.
Yeah the people in this thread are full of it lol
More mandatory overtime for her staff. She’ll never know it happened unless one of her social media managers sees it on Twitter and mentions it to her.
And then they buy more red spray paint on Amazon because Walmart was out .
Side note, didn’t the movie company make bank from people buying those V for Vendetta masks to protest against corporations or something? Vague memory of it
Yeah, between Anonymous and Occupy Wall Street those masks were very profitable for the people being protested against.
I’m sure their brief and ultimately pointless unpopularity was well compensated for by those extra revenues.
That’s what I don’t get.
The owner of the yacht doesn’t give a shit. It’s beneath them.
Those activists just made a headache for the working class crew who run the yacht.
Good work sticking it to the man’s working class employees! /S
They got their message on international news, and they did it targeting the super wealthy instead of blocking traffic or otherwise hindering innocent people. Frankly I don’t care if the crew has a ‘headache’ being paid to clean up some biodegradable paint, they’re just being paid for one task instead of another. What actual harm of any kind has this done? The benefit might be small but it’s nonzero unlike what most of us are doing.
they did it targeting the super wealthy instead of blocking traffic or otherwise hindering innocent people
Reminds me that the point of protest is to be disruptive. Oh, you’re blocked on your way to do your job? Your job is to do your job, not to fight other workers on behalf of your employer
I don’t get the whole ‘protest should not ever inconvenience anyone, ever’ line of thinking- if I’m travelling for work and I get stuck in traffic behind a protest, I bill my time and that’s how I pass the disruption signal along to where it needs to land
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They’re creating jobs by fucking up the yacht aren’t they?
Or is it only billionaires that “create jobs” when they fuck up the entire world?
Because targeted vandalism is easier and more satisfying to animalistic urges than the long work of organizing political backing, running for office, enacting societal change
Mate people have been trying all that since the 70s and it didn’t achieve much
Scuttle it next time.
We gotta get the orcas in on this one.
A spokesperson for Marina Port Vell said that the boat had not been damaged in Friday’s action. “After a quick action on behalf of the security team, the incident has been corrected and the boat is now in a perfect state,” the spokesperson told CNN.
Cannot stress enough that a new paint job is not the kind of action that’s going to fix jack shit. More than likely, it’s barely an annoyance. Few people on the planet have not heard the message already. If you don’t want them joyriding a massive yacht everywhere, remove the yacht.
So, while you’re entirely correct, someone on the team of “let’s harass the inconceivably wealthy” would probably still appreciate this action because it’s better than nothing.
It’s also possible they’re trying to get the media to cover it more, rather than cause actual property damage
Are you volunteering?
Uh. Lemme check. Yes. We’re well past the “please stop killing me, it’s really mean :(” stage. They know. They are choosing to jetset anyway.
If the disgustingly rich haven’t shifted their focus by now, they’ve basically made their stance known already and stuff like this strikes me as just toying around. It makes activists feel like they accomplished something, and then it’s rectified quite literally the same day and everyone continues about their business.
Wanna join in or would your parents worry?
So what have you done yourself? Stolen any boats?
It’s too easy to sit and criticise other peoples protests from the comforting you gaming chair.
Its self masturbatory. It makes themselves feel like they did something but grosses out most other people. These types of activist whose strategy is to do something shocking just to get press are always counter productive. As if they can’t reason how they’re speaking to the choir
I feel like I know your opinion on climate protests blocking roads etc now…
Fuck, if a climate protest stopped me from getting to work on time, I’d buy breakfast for the protesters.
Your local vegan restaurant would probably love this. No joke.
Not just my opinion. You would know what the majority and growing opinion on it is. Which is why most of those protest are backed by fossil industries. They stopped trying to fight these groups and started funding the most annoying of them.
Ah yes, the legendary false flag.
Agent provocateur. The ol bugs bunny, if you can’t beat them, join em.
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There’s quite a difference between destroying a yatch and trying to blow up a building with people in it…
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I just searched their name and looked at Wikipedia because I didn’t know who you were referring to
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Tacoma_attack
Also, accusing me of using far right propaganda as a source when you post a link to a far left source of info on the subject is incredible ironic…
And yet, here we are talking about it. Sometimes keeping the conversation going is in itself a win.
Team Orca!
Send in the orcas!
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It would be super easy to get away with sinking known billionaire yachts worldwide if you do it right.
warg into the orcas?
Warm? Nah they’ve been doing it for fun. Just give them a lot of points for this one.
Scuba certified activists. Sabotage the hull or fuck up the prop.
