If you ever wanted to read about fake druids vs. environmental activists, now’s your chance.

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    6 months ago

    Not paint, literally orange corn flour that’ll wash off with the first rain. Stop spreading disinformation for big oil pls. Idk why they went for this instead of classical art, but acting like this is some terrible evil crime is exactly what oil companies want you to think, they want you to root against people protesting climate change, no matter how tiny their vandalism is in the grand scheme of things

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      6 months ago

      I can root for people protesting climate change and think this was incredibly idiotic.

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        Not misinformation, disinformation. You read the article, yet choose to act like this is comparable to spray paint or something else that won’t immediately wash off. This is like getting indignant bc somebody threw a couple eggs at a great pyramid. It’s stupid and irrelevant to climate change, but sharing articles where the title says they threw acid instead of eggs is just fucking wrong, and serves no purpose besides discrediting climate activism

        Edit actually this article says nothing about corn flour, sorry for accusing you of ignoring that. That’s super shady and shitty on the Guardian’s part, a detail that majorly changes how actually harmful this act was

        Double edit you’re still acting like they threw actual paint, so nvm my apology. Stop being such a blatant oil shill

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          It’s stone. Stone is full of cracks. It will get into those cracks and not wash off.

          Furthermore, environmentalists pissing people off in the middle of a religious ceremony does nothing to help with an environmental cause. That’s the way PETA goes about doing things. Do you think they’ve been remotely effective?

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              That’s really not how things work. We know a lot about ancient foods specifically because they get stuck in cracks in tools and we can get them out and study them. The rain didn’t get the tiny flecks of wheat out of the cracks.

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                This is a fine powder which will dissolve in water. It will wash out and honestly, if it doesn’t, it’s so deep in that its completely unnoticeable and doesn’t matter. Much worse has happened to Stonehenge.

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                “The rain didn’t get the tiny flecks of wheat out of the cracks” Yet somehow it’s clean. Why are you continuing to act like this is comparable to actual paint? You’re whining about something that’s literally not a deal in the slightest, you really should stop making free propaganda for oil companies

                slight wording edit at the start

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
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                  Maybe if you had given me that article before you started berating me for not knowing what I was talking about, I might have been educated on the subject.

                  Are you really not able to talk to people without insulting them?

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                    The responsibility is on you to do your research before you argue about a topic.

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      6 months ago

      What is it the activists wanted people to think? Did they consider their actions might lead people to turn against them instead of against the oil companies?