Nobody Cares: PRS

[Innula Zenovka]

I get what you’re saying, but I wish we were as deferential to our present and future, as we are to the past.

Their tactics seem to me fundamentally misguided.

Whatever they think they're trying to achieve by stunts involving Stonehenge or paintings, or blocking traffic, time and time again they end up not with people talking about global heating and how to avert a climate catastrophe but with everyone agreeing about what annoying, self-satisfied pillocks they are, and more or less reluctantly agreeing that the government should clamp down still more on public protests.

They're not advancing their cause, and they're helping to harm civil liberties.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Here in Columbus the annual Pride parade was interrupted by pro-Palestine protesters. My very strong reaction was that protesting for a marginalized group by disrupting a celebration of a different marginalized group is not productive.

Protest against power.

These protests against cultural spaces are at best indirectly protesting the intended target. Rich people collect/donate art, so protest at an artwork that may or may not have a connection. But few people see a direct connection if any. Especially when you pick an ancient monument that has nothing to do with the industry you are protesting. But refineries are too remote to get attention, and people get angry if you blockade a gas station or freeway. I would respond more favorably if they targeted corporate offices or government buildings. Urban enough to get press, not an attack on culture, and not an inconvenience to the people that they want to sway.

Instead of what amounts to holding a public tantrum.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

I sometimes wonder if Just Stop Oil are not, in fact, a black op funded by the fossil fuel industry in order to make protests against that industry as unpopular as possible.

Well the Last Generation painted the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin in November 2023 orange. The Last Generation still thinks of that stunt as a stroke of genius, the public was fuming with foam and annoyed as hell. Of course the real message never was transported anyway, because if you do annoy people like that they won't listen.

Cleaning off the color took about 1 month, since "accidentally" the LG used a more resilient color than first intended. Well, whoever believes that... anyway, rests of it took even longer.

In February 2024 then LG became the invoice for the cleaning, 142.000 Euros which they should pay. The activists have also been put before a trial, and first offenders received their fines then in April 2024. Of course, they still can go before higher courts.

Anyway, LG even is threatening openly to color the monument orange again, until the government abides their demands. Well, they know for sure how to tick off all the wrong boxes for their good cause.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Well the Last Generation painted the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin in November 2023 orange. The Last Generation still thinks of that stunt as a stroke of genius, the public was fuming with foam and annoyed as hell. Of course the real message never was transported anyway, because if you do annoy people like that they won't listen.

Cleaning off the color took about 1 month, since "accidentally" the LG used a more resilient color than first intended. Well, whoever believes that... anyway, rests of it took even longer.

In February 2024 then LG became the invoice for the cleaning, 142.000 Euros which they should pay. The activists have also been put before a trial, and first offenders received their fines then in April 2024. Of course, they still can go before higher courts.

Anyway, LG even is threatening openly to color the monument orange again, until the government abides their demands. Well, they know for sure how to tick off all the wrong boxes for their good cause.

Now they've hit Taylor Swift's private jet, which is a probably a more appropriate target. I don't think it's going to bring them any closer to achieving their goals, but I suppose it makes them feel they're doing something to promote a cause about which they feel very strongly -- a bit like PETA, come to think of it.

It's been shelved, at least temporarily, before the election, but the British government recently received a report from their independent advisor on political violence suggesting the Just Stop Oil and Palestine Action should be banned for routinely using criminal tactics (typically obstruction and criminal damage to property) in the course of their campaigns.

'Extreme' protest groups face ban under proposal

A report will recommend proscribing "extreme" groups using criminal tactics to achieve their aims.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Well some members of the LG are now put before court trial in Germany for the offense of creating a criminal gang. We will see how this goes.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

New law requires all Louisiana public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments

The legislation that Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law requires the display of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom.

apnews.com

Normally, I'd expect this to get swatted down by the Supreme Court with a quickness, but with our current SCOTUS...

 

[Free]

It's hard to disagree with this.

Today on Tom the Dancing Bug - Comics by Ruben Bolling - GoComics

www.gocomics.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

New law requires all Louisiana public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments

The legislation that Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law requires the display of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom.

apnews.com

Normally, I'd expect this to get swatted down by the Supreme Court with a quickness, but with our current SCOTUS...

The bill signing was metaphorically perfect. If it was a scene in a movie I'd have called it a little too on-the-nose.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

The bill signing was metaphorically perfect. If it was a scene in a movie I'd have called it a little too on-the-nose.

How does he not even notice the commotion from a kid fainting right behind him???

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

That's what I mean. XD Patting himself on the back for protecting "the children" from made-up danger, while either totally oblivious or just willfully ignoring the real plight of a child standing literally right behind him.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

That's what I mean. XD Patting himself on the back for protecting "the children" from made-up danger, while either totally oblivious or just willfully ignoring the real plight of a child standing literally right behind him.

Stolen comment from the post:

Quite possible the kid needed lunch.

 

[Free]

She's an American kid - she doesn't need lunch.

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

She's an American kid - she doesn't need lunch.

Don't want to spoil them

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

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Well and Germany has a similar looking secret society named Guglmänner.

They do look like this:

But aside that they are totally harmless, and restricted mostly to Bavaria.

You see, they are fans of King Ludwig II. of Bavaria from the 19th century, thats the one who build Neuschwanstein. Officially Ludwig killed himself by going into a lake, but the Guglmänner think it was murder. And are trying to still proof that over 100 years later.

 

[Cristiano]

Well and Germany has a similar looking secret society named Guglmänner.

They do look like this:

The American variant is scared of black

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Quite the week:

https://x.com/antifaoperative/status/1804248326205763977

Kansas Pastor Resigns As School Board President After Woman Says He Began Grooming Her At 12 Years Old - Joe.My.God.

The Kansas City Star reports: The president of Blue Springs’ elected school board has resigned amid allegations raised online by a young woman who accuses him of grooming her about 10 years ago when she was a youth group leader in his church. “It is with a profound sense of responsibility and...

www.joemygod.com

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/18/pastor-ex-trump-adviser-resigns-sexual-abuse

Former Lubbock youth pastor arrested on child sexual assault allegations

A former youth pastor at a local church has been arrested on a charge of sexual assault of a child.

www.kcbd.com

*looks at the unfurler fail, meh. It's all church kiddie rape.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Rep. Lauren Boebert wins GOP primary after switching Colorado districts; Hurd, Crank also notch wins

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado has won the Republican primary in a House race she jumped into last year after switching districts.

apnews.com

*barf*

 

[Free]

Not a parody.

The Supreme Court rules that state officials can engage in a little corruption, as a treat

Snyder v. US is the Republican justices’ latest decision weakening anti-corruption laws.

www.vox.com

On a 6-3 party-line vote, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that state officials may accept “gratuities” from people who wish to reward them for their official actions, despite a federal anti-corruption statute that appears to ban such rewards.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the opinion in Snyder v. United States for the Court’s Republican-appointed majority. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote the dissent on behalf of the Court’s three Democratic appointees.

Snyder turns on a distinction between “bribes” and “gratuities.” As Kavanaugh writes, “bribes are payments made or agreed to before an official act in order to influence the official with respect to that future official act.” Gratuities, by contrast, “are typically payments made to an official after an official act as a token of appreciation.”