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Stonehenge sprayed with paint by environmental protesters (www.dw.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

https://whynow.co.uk/read/who-is-funding-just-stop-oil-the-billionaires-backing-the-art-vandals

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/climate/climate-protesters-paid-activists.html

Sorry about the Times article, it's a citation used on Wikipedia. Top one is not paywalled.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

So let‘s talk about the first article. It‘s written by art critic Alexander Adams who likes to talk about things like „why the Left hates good art“

https://soundcloud.com/user-923838732/alexander-adams-why-the-left-hates-good-art

Just the style of writing in this article gives away a lot:

The self-professed aims of these organisations and their millionaire backers are to bypass politics and implement radical measures upon the world’s population without democratic consultation.

the referenced piece here is written by a Breitbart editor by the way.

Anyway, so Just Stop Oil are going to bypass the world‘s democratic order? Yeah? By demanding them to follow through with their climate pledges? Oh man.

Also, it is no news, that the Getty heir is contributing to various funds, so what. I am a landlord and support Extinction Rebellion, does that make their actions inauthentic?

The reality is that the UK is using pretty straight forward laws to prevent this kind of protest, they don‘t need some kind of internationalist cabal to do that for them.