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
I have an idea. Destroying it probably just gets written off from insurance.
Wash the boat with undiluted pine sol.
So it slips out of the water. Smart.
You’re right they shouldn’t set fire to the boat
They’ll sue for emotional damage or some rich person bullshit idk
Cleanse the yacht with holy fire!
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Good. Symbolic protests are a way to surface issues suppressed by the dominant ideology. If it gets any media coverage it is a success.
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.
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.
Expound.
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
it’s a great start.
Let’s make it a third time
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.
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…
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.
Team Orca!
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.
ITT: People who don’t think $100m+ yachts have countermeasures for attacks like this.
Super yachts are built similar to cruise liners. Compartmentalised below the water line. You breach one, it gets detected and will seal it off. They are obviously gonna be connected to several alert systems and will notify the owner or whomever is in charge of maintenance. If anyone does manage to damage the hull, gonna have to do it more than once.
I love it. God bless us every one.
“Let them eat Taco Bell.”
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“Stop doing that or I’ll have to cut another $ per hour from all our employees to pay for the damages!”
Oh no you cost them .0000005 seconds of their salary to fix it.
With the added bonus of letting these people know that them and their assets aren’t as hard to get to as they like to think. Trust that this won’t end with paint.
If they were worried enough about it, they would increase security.
