• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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    4611 months ago

    Normally I’m tepid on this kinda headline getting, but I feel like Stonehenge of all things is not the ideal target for the supposed intent of these kinds of protests.

    • @vxx@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I have the suspicion for a while that the people behind those new climate movements are paid by oil companies and others to make climate activists look bad, and shift the public opinion about climate action.

      All the actions seem to deliberately targeted to anger the mainstream about them.

      Making the naive climate activists at the front the tool of conglomerates.

        • @Gigasser@lemmy.world
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          111 months ago

          Idk man, sometimes reality is stranger than fiction. Like wasn’t there reporting about the US recently in which the military was spreading antivax misinformation in the Philippines and other countries. Russia and China has their own cyber armies too. It’s not too much of a stretch that large conglomerates and corpos may have their own private propaganda wings either.

          • TheLowestStone
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            111 months ago

            You’re not wrong.

            I also saw some evidence further down this thread that oil companies provide funding to this group that I had previously been unaware of. I deleted my comment shortly after that but it might still be showing up because federation can be screwy.

            • @Gigasser@lemmy.world
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              11 months ago

              Hmmm, I would keep an open mind though. It’s not like these oil companies are dumb. They know that their reputation is bad. Slip a few million into the pockets of their enemies and “leak” information that they “the big baddies” are funding these seemingly unlikeable people, and that would likely slowly damage their reputation beyond repair. Although that may just be some light conspiracism on my part.

              Edit Addendum: I do think that whatever actions that just stop oil has done are ultimately harmless to whatever object they “”“”“vandalize”“”“”. Their actions are very good at getting public attention on climate change, and maybe even boosting donations to less radical climate activist groups.

    • @Mrs_deWinter@feddit.de
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      711 months ago

      Why not? They used starch. It’s not like Stonehenge is actually damaged. And using symbols people care about is the only way to convey that the crisis we’re facing is actually threatening things we care about. Everything else will be, and has been, ignored.

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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        1111 months ago

        Because it was built by Naturepath druids.

        They vandalized a structure that represents the purest distillment europeans may have achieved of their ideal vision thus far in human history.

        That’d be like me demanding bike infrastructure by bombing Amsterdam.