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Not as disgraceful as awarding oil drilling licenses to companies your family is invested in.
There is no damage: 'Just Stop Oil said the orange powder paint was cornflour and it would "wash away with rain".'
Not as outrageous as forcefully replacing local Labour candidates with your own choices.
Not as pathetic as Labour's climate policies.
Did any of them comment on the reason for the protest, or just the act itself? I don't want to see things like stonehenge or priceless art getting fucked up, but I am OK with more things being fucked up if that is what it takes... I'm fully expecting environmental extremism to become a thing in the next few years, as the situation will get worse and these sort of protests haven't achieved anything.
It's not what it takes. It turns people against the cause.
How many people do you know that were pro actual environment saving acts before and are now against?
None, but that's also true in the other direction and those people are now more resolute.
They were never gonna do anything that doesn't directly and immediately benefit themselves anyways.