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
Even harder when you spray with gasoline first.
Cleanse the yacht with holy fire!
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I have an idea. Destroying it probably just gets written off from insurance.
Wash the boat with undiluted pine sol.
Literally no damage done to the boat will ever actually financially harm the bitchionaire. That’s not the goal of protest - though it’s certainly a bonus when it’s achievable.
Everyone’s complaining that this doesn’t do anything and is counter productive, but you know what this looks like to me?
Propaganda of the deed. Someone will look at this and think “I know better things to spray her superyacht with than paint…”
Make sure it’s something that will take her servants an extra hard time to clean
it’s a great start.
Governments should stop billionaires. Tax them 100% income tax after a certain amount of income, tax them 50%% of their networth yearly after a certain amount of value.
The government is now controlled, more or less, by said billionaires - too late?
Fuck yeah. They should live in constant and non-stop fear of the people they hoard from
They SHOULD, but this won’t accomplish that.
Let’s think of something better.
100% agreed, billionaires should not exist. It’s absolutely disgusting that they do. They’ll take and take and take and take some more. If you haven’t seen it yet, please check out this site visualizing Jeff Bezos’ wealth. These people believe that they owe nothing to a society that gave them the tools, infra, security, and workforce for their companies to succeed. The level of excess is really unfathomable, and this chart is like Power of Ten for helping you understand the difference in a few zeros.
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.
So, while you’re entirely correct, someone on the team of “let’s harass the inconceivably wealthy” would probably still appreciate this action because it’s better than nothing.
It’s also possible they’re trying to get the media to cover it more, rather than cause actual property damage
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?
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
And end up like Will Van Spronsen, who was called a terrorist and demonized by almost everyone for doing good. (Reddit would suspend your account just for mentioning him.)
The super wealthy’s propaganda tools are more powerful than ours because they control the media, and there aren’t as many people who are awake to what’s happening as you might think. I’m all for direct action like what you describe, but we still need the red paint to make people aware of what’s going on. And I promise, it does do something. What do the unlovable rich want that they can’t buy? Love and respect. (Look at fucking Elon, that pathetic insect.)
I recently read a sci-fi book called “Station Six” by an anarchist author who goes by S.J. Klapecki. Let me quote one of the characters:
He wants to live like good King Arthur, loved and cherished and appreciated by his serfs. I like throwing a wrench into that. I think it’s important. And, who knows, maybe the next set of malcontents will learn something from us. I doubt it, but there’s my optimism for ya.
You and I look at the activists pictured and think, “What was the point,” but the majority of people are still learning their ABCs of why this whole system is fucked. Sure, I’d have preferred the ship got destroyed completely, but these folks still did a brave act that has hit that sweet spot where it will get media attention without being entirely buried like a Will Van Spronsen (who, for the record, is a god damn hero and I’m not disparaging him at all).
There’s quite a difference between destroying a yatch and trying to blow up a building with people in it…
Not sure whose disinformation campaign you’ve been hearing, but he set fire to unoccupied buses, not “trying to blow up a building with people in it”
But I’m sure the fascists are happy someone from sh.itjust.works came along to defend them. What a shocker.
Edit: What I should have said is “exhibit A” – This is why we still need the red paint, so thank you for illustrating my point
I just searched their name and looked at Wikipedia because I didn’t know who you were referring to
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Tacoma_attack
Also, accusing me of using far right propaganda as a source when you post a link to a far left source of info on the subject is incredible ironic…
Team Orca!
And yet, here we are talking about it. Sometimes keeping the conversation going is in itself a win.
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It would be super easy to get away with sinking known billionaire yachts worldwide if you do it right.
warg into the orcas?
Scuba certified activists. Sabotage the hull or fuck up the prop.
ITT: People who don’t think $100m+ yachts have countermeasures for attacks like this.
How do you sink a boat that big? Get a drill that can work under water? Explosives are too hard to make. Maybe burn it with a Molotov?
Underwater cutting torch. Edit: now I’m bullshitting. No idea whether somebody would get sucked into the hole or whether there are underwater cutting rigs that don’t rely on surface support.
Yeah you wouldn’t even have to make a circle, just hold it there for a little bit.
Maybe make a few in different places.
I’d go with a thermite fire started by a drone. Much easier to do and harder to stop. Enough thermite will burn all the way through the boat, burning it and sinking it all at once.
For a boat that big, you can get into the idea of an economic loss. For example, flooding the engine room for long enough can ruin the engines, and make the cost and time of repair high enough that you can practically rebuy the boat with the price.
Obviously it is insured, but insurance goes up when you’re the target of economic terror attacks (To think I live in world where I get to type that sentence). Also there would be the wait for a new vessel. And maybe… just maybe, the Waltons might think, “hey, maybe some people are upset we have a $110 million boat while our employees are on food stamps.”
Send in the orcas!
Let’s make it a third time
Uhoh we’re out of paint
Manure is pretty cheap.
Also, manure is a good source of potassium nitrate…
What an incendiary thought.
Stop fucking around and sink it.
Oh no you cost them .0000005 seconds of their salary to fix it.
its about getting eyeballs on their message.
I’ve had traffic blocked while I was cycling to work by eco protesters and lamented they were targeting the wrong folks here- so they’re doing what they can to target the right folks.
no matter what people do to try to draw attention to the right focus on the issue, there will always be thumb typers saying its wrong, so good work
Yeah but blocking traffic is just as valid. Frankly too many regular people just don’t give a shit about climate change. We need to do anything to spread knowledge.
I really disagree with this one. When people can’t get to work and are therefore in trouble with the boss, or lose a client, they become angry with the people or factor that caused it. I have heard easily half a dozen people say they hate climate activists for this reason. It doesn’t work.
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.
So burn that one too.
Scuttle it next time.
We gotta get the orcas in on this one.
