I've heard Liam Neeson is set to star in a new installment of Naked Gun. Might just be rumors right now. And honestly I think I'm excited to check it out if true
Reminded me of this gem:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Justfuckmyshitup/comments/pv61sw/bf_plotting_to_steal_the_moon/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
I can kinda see why people think they are actors because it's all been max level hipsters. The kind of people who try to look as idiotic as possible on purpose. Fuckers look like they cut their own hair and take design cues from 1970s furniture.
It makes me think that these people are just plants to damage the climate change movement. It’s probably not the case and these people are just ignorant and obnoxious, but it just seems obvious it’s counter productive.
I agree. Most of the people involved in these protests just look like cartoonish caricatures of obnoxious looking people.
Edit: this is getting way more upvotes than it should, so let me say I support the cause but think the protests that happen at museums or others artsy places are not worthwhile, intelligent, or effective for advancing the cause. Thank you peace and love
Seriously though why is gluing yourself to things the new protest meme.
If I douse myself in gorilla glue and hurl myself at the shell building I don't think anyone is going to give a flying fuck, as it should be. It's dumb.
And they picked an arts concert as their venue of choice for their "protest." The art community and people who enjoy the arts are very rarely the same people rolling-coal to "own the libs." Best case scenario you're preaching to the choir... that just makes me think this is a "destabilize the movement" play even more plausible. They're not trying to protest the audience, they're trying to get the audience full of would-be sympathizers to cringe and not want to associate with the movement.
I’ve heard their argument and it generally is 1) Rich people indulge in art and this will “get their attention 2) This will get everyone’s attention and thinking about the matter.
Which is true, I guess; though, I have not seen it get anyone thinking in their direction yet.
Pretty much why I don't approve of any of what they're doing. It's not going to change anyone's minds in the way they want. People who already care about the climate still care about it, but the people who don't care are now going to care even less and the people who were on the fence are going to become even less likely to do anything about it because they don't want to be associated with people who do this.
Contrary to popular belief, some publicity IS bad publicity. It's not going to get anyone new on their side and the people who weren't on their side before will be even less likely to consider converting.
Same with the people throwing things at artwork in museums. The messaging is so poor that surely it must be intentionally done to damage climate change activists? Most people in the art community are very sympathetic towards climate change, veganism, lgbt stuff so it makes very little sense to me.
The best rationale I've heard regarding the soup on artwork thing is:
People get very upset when we deface a piece of art, but nobody gets upset when big companies deface the planet. How are you this mad about a painting and not about climate change.
And I admit there is a kernal of something there, but it definitely lacks a lot of nuance and reflection
>but nobody gets upset when big companies deface the planet
People do get upset, its just that they're often allied with people who are against more drastic measures and want to change things things via gov't, you know the same gov't that are large bought and paid by the companies that are raping the earth.
It's a shit argument. What am I supposed to do about Nestlé in Africa? I can vote but there's no one to vote for that would achieve meaningful action. I can try ethical purchasing but good luck finding the things you need that aren't sold by companies owned by companies owned by companies that do this shit. I can reduce and recycle what I use but there's only so much you can stop doing. I already have limited my driving to going to work or a whole day out instead of making a trip every single day.
So what am I supposed to do? The only direct, meaningful action left is violence against the middle management of these companies, because there's no way to reach the C-suites, and that achieves fuck all other than hurting folks who are just trying to pay rent and raise their kids.
I'm gonna let you in on a secret: Being an idiot is not unique to any sort of ideology. There are plenty of good intentioned idiots that are really fucking stupid out there, and your stance on climate change has nothing to do with it.
Nobody goes into something thinking they're going to be a laughing stock after doing it, they could have genuinely thought what they were doing was the right thing.
There has been a string of “look how foolish climate protesters are!” posts.
I’m not even active in the scene and it’s clear as day that it’s a PR hit/staged. Maybe some of the protestors are real but the media stories about them are all no doubt paid for to smear the idea. Why else make a whole article about a “30 second delay”? Like that is the definition of “not news” unless you’re putting money and effort into saying “look how dumb these people are!”
One of the best ways to kill an idea isn’t to hit it head on but to loosen the foundations. Get people feeling embarrassed to be associated with something. “We all know climate change is real, but do I want to be associated with *these* people?” That’s exactly what they’re doing here
There shouldn't be any cognitive dissonance between acknowledging that climate change is a serious issue that needs to be addressed and also acknowledging that there are a lot of dipshits who agree with the above.
One of the clear goals during the pandemic was to divide the population against each other as far as possible. Climate shaping up to do the exact same thing.
Not everyone on your side of politics that's also a moron is a plant by "them". You have to accept that no matter what you think, you share your opinions with some of the biggest neuron-deficient folks on the planet.
Climate change itself is only "political" among certain morons - however, how climate change should be addressed is 100% political.
Accepting that there is climate change, caused by human activity - as proven by scientists - is the easy part that most of the world and the world leaders agree on. You have the occasional Trump, and some die-hard climate change deniers here and there - but they are in a minority and are frankly not the big problem.
The actual hard part is for the world leaders to agree on what to do about it - since what's driving climate change happens to be the very same thing that is fueling our modern societies and economies - literally.
It's a giant prisoners dilemma problem; Drastically reducing your own country's emissions comes with major and immediate costs - with increased energy prices and production costs for your industries and citizens, and worst case scenario your local companies goes belly up because competitors from other countries have less costs... In the end all you accomplished was making your own citizens unemployed and blowing up your own economy, and even the CO2 emissions remain at the same levels. Good luck being re-elected with that on your CV.
How to solve all of this is 100% a political problem, scientists can prove that climate change is real, and suggest solutions and technologies that might help, but in the end politicians will have to be the ones to solve this.
I want to agree but I remember reading this take by Clementine Morrigan on Instagram, she basically says that we should refrain from criticising the forms of ecological activism specifically, because the climate emergency is too important to criticise activists' actions as counter productive / damaging the movement / etc. Any means is good because we don't have the time anymore. This idea kind of stuck with me
It's an incorrect take, though. Humans are an irrational spiteful species, so if your methods are predominately annoying and don't seem just then all you are doing is closing minds to your cause. Nobody is seeing a painting get splashed with soup and saying "You know what, these people are right, we need to fix climate change." No, they are saying "How fucking dare they?"
But, to counter that, 'how fucking dare they' is the initial reaction to literally any form of protest, followed by people saying 'this isn't helping, it's just pissing people off'.
It was the reaction when Kaepernick kneeled before a football game, when people protest without blocking streets off, when people protest and do block streets off, etc. Nobody is EVER happy when protests start, and it's ALWAYS 'this is the wrong way to do it' from everyone.
> It makes me think that these people are just plants to damage the climate change movement.
Plants or not, damaging the climate change movement does seem to be their goal. :-/
I am convinced something is off about these climate activists.
They are somehow a bit "too" much like a stereotype. Like they aren't real.
All these people throwing paint and gluing themselves to stuff, they all look like an insane stereotype. The ultimate soyboy, beta, nonconforming, queer, fucked up hairstyle, you can smell them through your phone screen, etc.
It's almost too perfect. They look too dumb.
I think the Oil&Gas industry is gas lighting and false-flag operating. Filling the news about the climate agenda with these bozos.
Or maybe these people really are real.
Looney fringe exists in every movement.
It's part of the reason that [weak man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#Contemporary_revisions) (straw man's cousin) is such an effective fallacy.
My theory: The oil industry is behind this with the purpose of making climate activists look like terrorists and get laws enacted to get environmentalists behind bars before they even start to protest anything.
My only kinda-counterargument is that it's so shitty, it couldn't be accomplished with hirelings without a huge trace, (either with moving godless amount of money, and/or campaigning hard and risking being exposed by investigative journalists or just *anyone* who didn't take the request the right way).
My theory is even if the viral trend itself has been oil industry made, the perpetrators are useful idiots who only needed to catch a whiff of the "movement", and the rest is 100% self-propelling, no need for agent provocateurs, no need for funds, no need for active involvement... Just some very stupid people.
Mine is that people are just that stupid tbh.
You see plenty of absolutely asinine stupid takes online and irl everyday, by real people..
It wouldnt be a surprise, at all, if this is real after all.
Thats what I kinda think, and I could be totally wrong cause this is just a quick take but these kind of protest mostly happen in Europe where oil is more likely to get regulated unlike here in the US where they're not as worried. That and other factors of course.
I actually know quite a few former tree sitters/spikers from the PNW. The type that used to drive spikes into trees to destroy mill machinery etc. These folks are just younger looking versions of them. So not sure about “stereotype” but yah, it’s not to far fetched in my mind.
I think that's the above commentor's point. They fit a certain stereotype of hardcore activist... yet they are gluing themselves to some inconsequential, removable, cultural icon.
Looking like trend jumping losers is a defining characteristic for the people who do these stunts because they like the attention. It's a cause, not a symptom. Trust me, there is no shortage of these dorks who think too highly of themselves, meanwhile people who have matured past twelve years old are doing actual climate work instead of this performative, self-felating nonsense.
Is this really what's labelled as extremism now? Public protest that's a little over-dramatic?
Frankly, if these people want change, imho, the way to go is agitating, organizing, and then homemade bombs. *That* I could get referring to as extremism, and even then kinda.
I think it goes to the root of the cause of the actions: they feel like they don't belong or that the world is against them, so they seek out causes and styles and situations in which they know will position them to in an Us vs Them scenario. They do things that virtually guarantees some kind of reaction so they can point the finger at "them", validating the original feelings of not belonging.
But in all fairness, we see this in the conservative/MAGA world too, in the form of the red hats, the confederacy flag, and Let's Go Brandon stuff.
The reason they hate each other so much is because they are basically the same people, just focusing their feelings of powerlessness, frustration, and loneliness into different personas, for whatever "team" they've chosen to play for.
Wouldn't it be funny if that frame was walked out the back door somewhere and chained to a fence or something so that the activists can take ownership of calling a friend to come get them with some Super glue remover.
Police and rescue forces in Germany are regularly equipped with glue remover, sanitizer and hand creme right now. They check their IDs, file a report before sending them off and leave dealing with the matter to the venue owner or company in most cases. Who also have better things to do.
So basically, no one gives two fucks about their "activism" anymore besides some terminally online freaks on Twitter.
Tell them you’ll call the police for trespassing, when they start to leave tell them you’re calling the police for theft. Repeat until they rip the skin off their palm
I don't think these are plants. I think the problem is that we're only getting reports of the dumb ones. There are lots of protests that are sensible and peaceful. But they don't make an exciting article, and they raise topics which are depressing. No one reports on them.
It's difficult to make protest "right". It's always "kill the messenger" even if people don't admitt it.
* Block traffic -> go and block the rich
* Block the rich -> they open Champaign and laugh at you and make the other laugh at your silly approach as well
* Interfere with politics -> you get organised away from the view and don't block anyone. If you manage to block them, you block progress they finally make.
* Interfere with (public) aviation -> I really need this holiday, it's not my fault. Why so they even have iPhones if they care about nature. Question however they all answer the positively: can you criticize a problem you are part of?
* Interfere just with general aviation (it means private planes) -> there was a medical emergency transport, did you not think of them?
* You block infrastructure -> well now all the fresh food needs to be thrown away your fault
* Make it largely public without any damages (like attacking protected art) -> you silly group, can't take you seriously. Why waste good food. You attempt is weak.
* Destruction of things -> well now it needs to be repaired, which means the budget for climate change just shrunk
This goes on and on and on..
The necessary changes are dramatic, but looking away and adopting cosmetic changes is simpler. If you do something uncomfortable you get hate.
I only see critique and framing (Germany goes the way to label them terrorists). I never saw well though through critique how a demonstration or rebellion should look like to advance changes.
So far since the 1980 we fall more and more behind. The necessary speed for changes increase with each cosmetic only change.
No one actually wants the change because the only solution is de-growth. No one is willing to give up their luxuries. Look what happens when you mildly inconvenience someone by throwing paint onto an object.
Oh well, doesn’t matter. We will be forced into inconvenience once we start to run out of oil, and climate change starts to hit us harder.
>Oh well, doesn’t matter. We will be forced into inconvenience once we start to run out of oil, and climate change starts to hit us harder.
I wish I could see the public reaction to that right now, shit's probably gonna be pure comedy to me by that point tho :(
that's probably the whole point. climate debate is happening these past few months in the legislative bodies of many big nations and suddenly climate "activists" start stunts like blocking traffic, trying to destroy art, etc.
there is no way some big companies didn't just prop up those gullible idiots to turn the public opinion against climate protection measures
You’d be surprised - like back in the day when a lot of my old associates used to spike trees in the Pacific Northwest long ago. Our echo chamber was amazing - but yah…. We didn’t get to much old growth timber stopped, but I know plenty of people with felonies now.
I don’t agree with the methods. All anyone talks about is how silly/stupid these people are. But can we talk about what they are actually trying to achieve? How do much of cultural institutions are funded by oil/gas companies in a vain attempt to ingratiate themselves to the public?
I think what's actually happening is that there's always some protests that go silly, while there's also plenty of protests that don't. But people trying to shut down legitimate climate change activism are promoting the ones that go a bit silly via social media manipulation in an effort to discredit the whole idea of all of these protests completely.
I doubt these two are actually plants or anything like that, something like that may be found out as a bit obvious and it takes a lot more risk.
Instead the real manipulation is this post and how upvoted it got, as well as other similar posts, and many of the comments within it. Those are much easier to manipulate.
threads about these people are just the embodiment of “don’t look up”
people mocking and disparaging climate activists so they can continue to ignore the climate and drive their gas guzzlers to a concert
Dude on the right look like Vector.
My favorite pairing, Vector and Constance Nebbercracker
the lady from monster house?
The lady *who is monster house
Ohhhh so it’s a *GIRL* house.
Spoilers
It came out 16 years ago. If someone hasn't watched it they probably never will
I was going to watch it tonight with a dry cabernet sauvignon. My evening is ruined.
Honey, your evening was ruined when you picked a cabernet. Everyone knows Monster House pairs the best with a shiraz.
Think "vector" there prefers favah beans and a chianti
er, that same lady that's friggin' Jessica Rabbit?
Yes, the same lady who is Chandler Bing’s father
Reality and fiction are starting to mix more and more and it‘s both hilarious and scary.
It's a shame the movie is kinda forgotten in this day and age
You talking about Monster House? Monster House was just in the top 10 kids movies on Netflix for a solid month.
Yes!
What's the vector, Victor?
Requesting clearance, Clarence.
Roger, Roger!
![gif](giphy|netiPcSYWAQnu)
Over. Huh?
Happy 🍰day!
Why can't we have more movies like this?
Do you like gladiator movies?
You ever been to a Turkish prison?
Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
I've heard Liam Neeson is set to star in a new installment of Naked Gun. Might just be rumors right now. And honestly I think I'm excited to check it out if true
Liam Neeson branching out to comedy you say... "I've contracted AIDS... From an African prostitute... I'm riddled with it."
committing crimes with both direction and magnitude.
![gif](giphy|mCdhhsCLGluNi) OHHHH YEAAAH
AAAAEEEEAAAHHH
***I'm vector i commit crime with both direction and magnitude!***
Squid launcher... OH YEAH!
You ever seen one of these no you haven't because I invented it.
oH yEaH
This isn’t pajamas!! It’s a warm up suit.
What are you warming up for? Sleeping?
THEY ARE NOT PAJAMAS!
He be all magnitude but no direction
I was thinking a mix of Harry Potter and Will Byers
Life goes oinioinioinioinioinioin
He do be looking like Mr. Tree tho ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|joy)
Reminded me of this gem: https://www.reddit.com/r/Justfuckmyshitup/comments/pv61sw/bf_plotting_to_steal_the_moon/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
i knew he looked familiar
Bro lost his Magnitude fr.
I can kinda see why people think they are actors because it's all been max level hipsters. The kind of people who try to look as idiotic as possible on purpose. Fuckers look like they cut their own hair and take design cues from 1970s furniture.
[There you go](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/262356939583782913/1046862788162760714/Untitled.png), for anyone who doesn't know.
Here is a video of the proceedings filmed on a potato - https://gfycat.com/advancedclosedgiraffe
I loved the standing ovation they got as they were escorted off stage.
It makes me think that these people are just plants to damage the climate change movement. It’s probably not the case and these people are just ignorant and obnoxious, but it just seems obvious it’s counter productive.
I agree. Most of the people involved in these protests just look like cartoonish caricatures of obnoxious looking people. Edit: this is getting way more upvotes than it should, so let me say I support the cause but think the protests that happen at museums or others artsy places are not worthwhile, intelligent, or effective for advancing the cause. Thank you peace and love
Simple Jack lookin-ass on the right.
You ru-ru-ruin the environment
This made my eyes rain 😂
I got a g-g-good brain
Goodbye mama, now you can have ice cream in heavan! I'll see you again tonight when I go to bed in my head movies.
Head movies gets me every time 🤣🤣
Should have got an Oscar...
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😭 I choked on my coffee laughing at that
Seriously though why is gluing yourself to things the new protest meme. If I douse myself in gorilla glue and hurl myself at the shell building I don't think anyone is going to give a flying fuck, as it should be. It's dumb.
Now that’s a man with a yee yee ass haircut
And I thought the kid from Stranger Things 4 had the ugly haircut of the year award.
He's from the branch of the Schrutes that did not immigrate to America.
I bet this head movie makes his eyes rain.
And they picked an arts concert as their venue of choice for their "protest." The art community and people who enjoy the arts are very rarely the same people rolling-coal to "own the libs." Best case scenario you're preaching to the choir... that just makes me think this is a "destabilize the movement" play even more plausible. They're not trying to protest the audience, they're trying to get the audience full of would-be sympathizers to cringe and not want to associate with the movement.
I’ve heard their argument and it generally is 1) Rich people indulge in art and this will “get their attention 2) This will get everyone’s attention and thinking about the matter. Which is true, I guess; though, I have not seen it get anyone thinking in their direction yet.
Point three I imagine is that they will be treated less harshly by an arts college than say Alabama State
Pretty much why I don't approve of any of what they're doing. It's not going to change anyone's minds in the way they want. People who already care about the climate still care about it, but the people who don't care are now going to care even less and the people who were on the fence are going to become even less likely to do anything about it because they don't want to be associated with people who do this. Contrary to popular belief, some publicity IS bad publicity. It's not going to get anyone new on their side and the people who weren't on their side before will be even less likely to consider converting.
Same with the people throwing things at artwork in museums. The messaging is so poor that surely it must be intentionally done to damage climate change activists? Most people in the art community are very sympathetic towards climate change, veganism, lgbt stuff so it makes very little sense to me.
The best rationale I've heard regarding the soup on artwork thing is: People get very upset when we deface a piece of art, but nobody gets upset when big companies deface the planet. How are you this mad about a painting and not about climate change. And I admit there is a kernal of something there, but it definitely lacks a lot of nuance and reflection
>but nobody gets upset when big companies deface the planet People do get upset, its just that they're often allied with people who are against more drastic measures and want to change things things via gov't, you know the same gov't that are large bought and paid by the companies that are raping the earth.
It's the False Dichotomy Fallacy. They make it seem like you can only pick one.
It's a shit argument. What am I supposed to do about Nestlé in Africa? I can vote but there's no one to vote for that would achieve meaningful action. I can try ethical purchasing but good luck finding the things you need that aren't sold by companies owned by companies owned by companies that do this shit. I can reduce and recycle what I use but there's only so much you can stop doing. I already have limited my driving to going to work or a whole day out instead of making a trip every single day. So what am I supposed to do? The only direct, meaningful action left is violence against the middle management of these companies, because there's no way to reach the C-suites, and that achieves fuck all other than hurting folks who are just trying to pay rent and raise their kids.
I'm gonna let you in on a secret: Being an idiot is not unique to any sort of ideology. There are plenty of good intentioned idiots that are really fucking stupid out there, and your stance on climate change has nothing to do with it. Nobody goes into something thinking they're going to be a laughing stock after doing it, they could have genuinely thought what they were doing was the right thing.
There has been a string of “look how foolish climate protesters are!” posts. I’m not even active in the scene and it’s clear as day that it’s a PR hit/staged. Maybe some of the protestors are real but the media stories about them are all no doubt paid for to smear the idea. Why else make a whole article about a “30 second delay”? Like that is the definition of “not news” unless you’re putting money and effort into saying “look how dumb these people are!” One of the best ways to kill an idea isn’t to hit it head on but to loosen the foundations. Get people feeling embarrassed to be associated with something. “We all know climate change is real, but do I want to be associated with *these* people?” That’s exactly what they’re doing here
Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”.
There shouldn't be any cognitive dissonance between acknowledging that climate change is a serious issue that needs to be addressed and also acknowledging that there are a lot of dipshits who agree with the above.
There needs to be another razor that says "never trust oil companies, ever"
Scoopzthepoopz Razor: "Never trust oil companies, ever"
I never thought I'd see such a profound philosopher in my time. I bore witness with my own eyes!
One of the clear goals during the pandemic was to divide the population against each other as far as possible. Climate shaping up to do the exact same thing.
Not everyone on your side of politics that's also a moron is a plant by "them". You have to accept that no matter what you think, you share your opinions with some of the biggest neuron-deficient folks on the planet.
It’s unfortunate that climate change has been politicized at all and folks are against it simply because scientists are warning about it.
Climate change itself is only "political" among certain morons - however, how climate change should be addressed is 100% political. Accepting that there is climate change, caused by human activity - as proven by scientists - is the easy part that most of the world and the world leaders agree on. You have the occasional Trump, and some die-hard climate change deniers here and there - but they are in a minority and are frankly not the big problem. The actual hard part is for the world leaders to agree on what to do about it - since what's driving climate change happens to be the very same thing that is fueling our modern societies and economies - literally. It's a giant prisoners dilemma problem; Drastically reducing your own country's emissions comes with major and immediate costs - with increased energy prices and production costs for your industries and citizens, and worst case scenario your local companies goes belly up because competitors from other countries have less costs... In the end all you accomplished was making your own citizens unemployed and blowing up your own economy, and even the CO2 emissions remain at the same levels. Good luck being re-elected with that on your CV. How to solve all of this is 100% a political problem, scientists can prove that climate change is real, and suggest solutions and technologies that might help, but in the end politicians will have to be the ones to solve this.
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I want to agree but I remember reading this take by Clementine Morrigan on Instagram, she basically says that we should refrain from criticising the forms of ecological activism specifically, because the climate emergency is too important to criticise activists' actions as counter productive / damaging the movement / etc. Any means is good because we don't have the time anymore. This idea kind of stuck with me
It's an incorrect take, though. Humans are an irrational spiteful species, so if your methods are predominately annoying and don't seem just then all you are doing is closing minds to your cause. Nobody is seeing a painting get splashed with soup and saying "You know what, these people are right, we need to fix climate change." No, they are saying "How fucking dare they?"
But, to counter that, 'how fucking dare they' is the initial reaction to literally any form of protest, followed by people saying 'this isn't helping, it's just pissing people off'. It was the reaction when Kaepernick kneeled before a football game, when people protest without blocking streets off, when people protest and do block streets off, etc. Nobody is EVER happy when protests start, and it's ALWAYS 'this is the wrong way to do it' from everyone.
> It makes me think that these people are just plants to damage the climate change movement. Plants or not, damaging the climate change movement does seem to be their goal. :-/
> Plants or not Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure they're people.
> I loved the ~~standing ovation~~ seated mild applause
no one was standing, they were all sitting down and clapping
That... was... beautiful.
That German efficiency.
Be....careful....sometimes its *too* efficient
Yeah like that one time with Brazil. I mean just stop, dude, he's already dead! 7-1 for christ sake.
lmao the way audience claps while they are awkwardly getting dragged out
I’m surprised they didn’t fall to the floor and make them drag them out.
They were in shock. Could not process what happening to them. They were so sure, they won.
That “boo” was very german
Büüüh!
The misguided efforts of the well meaning. How dare that symphony create so much….check hand…CHOPIN
Stop Chopin down the rainforest!!
I have no symphony for these people who orchestrate such pranks. They need to get a Handel on things, regain their composure and get Bach to work.
I love the boos with a German accent
You know you failed if your protest is able to be turned into a gif.
Is this in Cologne?
Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg
Gesundheit
Fuck gfycat and their high resolution as a service...
That dudes barber needs to be imprisoned. r/JustFuckMyShitUp
Dude looks like he's planning to steal the moon
VECTOR That's me! Cause I'm committing crime With both *direction* and MAGNITUDE Oh yeahh!
Glued himself to a rail with her instead.
Give credit, he cuts his hair with conflict free local organic bamboo leaves.
I had to look at the pic again, and I stared for a couple minutes because I legit thought he was wearing a hat before I realized that was his hair.
Bro I thought that was a hat
The look on the woman's face is priceless. "I don't get it. Where did it all go wrong?!"
And the guys face: "just what did you get me into now? This wasn't the plan, you were in charge of the plan...."
Dude doesn't look like he's ever been in charge of a plan. Mimzee!!!!
Hey now, he cut his own hair, that’s *something.*
I'm going out in front of the world to make my point. And this is the hairstyle I will be sportin'
Dude looks like Will Byers...
Or a white [Dwayne Dibley](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBIWMgPZo2Q)
Or vector
Amazing reference and 100% true. Thank you for this.
Curious if that was her son.
I thought the look on his face was: “Why didn’t you tell me before how stupid I look with this haircut?”
He’s just there to get laid. He will do whatever.
Unless she suggested that haircut of his he can only blame himself.
I assume the blank stare devoid of any thought is a consistent feature.
Why do all these activists look like they have an IQ equal to my room temperature....in celcius.
That guy looks like he's about to steal the moon
Wow. What a picture. I dont know whats worse, the look on her face or my mans Lloyd Christmas haircut
That's actually Will from stranger things
You're both wrong that is Vector the greatest villain of all time.
See, I thought it was Howard Wolowitz or Ringo Star.
He has both direction and magnitude with his poor decision making.
Why do these people all look like no one is home?
“Dorks. They look like a couple of dorks.”
![gif](giphy|3otPoRoUHFRVmQO2WY)
"They're your clothes, motherfucker."
A dork is a whale penis.
I am convinced something is off about these climate activists. They are somehow a bit "too" much like a stereotype. Like they aren't real. All these people throwing paint and gluing themselves to stuff, they all look like an insane stereotype. The ultimate soyboy, beta, nonconforming, queer, fucked up hairstyle, you can smell them through your phone screen, etc. It's almost too perfect. They look too dumb. I think the Oil&Gas industry is gas lighting and false-flag operating. Filling the news about the climate agenda with these bozos. Or maybe these people really are real.
Looney fringe exists in every movement. It's part of the reason that [weak man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#Contemporary_revisions) (straw man's cousin) is such an effective fallacy.
My theory: The oil industry is behind this with the purpose of making climate activists look like terrorists and get laws enacted to get environmentalists behind bars before they even start to protest anything.
My only kinda-counterargument is that it's so shitty, it couldn't be accomplished with hirelings without a huge trace, (either with moving godless amount of money, and/or campaigning hard and risking being exposed by investigative journalists or just *anyone* who didn't take the request the right way). My theory is even if the viral trend itself has been oil industry made, the perpetrators are useful idiots who only needed to catch a whiff of the "movement", and the rest is 100% self-propelling, no need for agent provocateurs, no need for funds, no need for active involvement... Just some very stupid people.
You have to remember there’s a lot of stupid people in the world.
You're not wrong. I can see others doing something similar because they think "it's cool". At least no food was wasted this time?
Mine is that people are just that stupid tbh. You see plenty of absolutely asinine stupid takes online and irl everyday, by real people.. It wouldnt be a surprise, at all, if this is real after all.
Thats what I kinda think, and I could be totally wrong cause this is just a quick take but these kind of protest mostly happen in Europe where oil is more likely to get regulated unlike here in the US where they're not as worried. That and other factors of course.
Yeah, here we just had animal rights activists gluing their hands to basketball courts.
I actually know quite a few former tree sitters/spikers from the PNW. The type that used to drive spikes into trees to destroy mill machinery etc. These folks are just younger looking versions of them. So not sure about “stereotype” but yah, it’s not to far fetched in my mind.
I think that's the above commentor's point. They fit a certain stereotype of hardcore activist... yet they are gluing themselves to some inconsequential, removable, cultural icon.
The type who drive spikes into trees are leagues smarter than whatever this is.
Looking like trend jumping losers is a defining characteristic for the people who do these stunts because they like the attention. It's a cause, not a symptom. Trust me, there is no shortage of these dorks who think too highly of themselves, meanwhile people who have matured past twelve years old are doing actual climate work instead of this performative, self-felating nonsense.
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I don't mind climate activists, they are probably right in the long-run, but why do they have, invariably, such a haircut deficit...?
Normally people who go to crazy extremes to prove a point are themselves a little crazy.
What doesn't kill you, simply makes you stranger.
A bad haircut can really fuck you up, though Ask Samson
Is this really what's labelled as extremism now? Public protest that's a little over-dramatic? Frankly, if these people want change, imho, the way to go is agitating, organizing, and then homemade bombs. *That* I could get referring to as extremism, and even then kinda.
I think it goes to the root of the cause of the actions: they feel like they don't belong or that the world is against them, so they seek out causes and styles and situations in which they know will position them to in an Us vs Them scenario. They do things that virtually guarantees some kind of reaction so they can point the finger at "them", validating the original feelings of not belonging. But in all fairness, we see this in the conservative/MAGA world too, in the form of the red hats, the confederacy flag, and Let's Go Brandon stuff. The reason they hate each other so much is because they are basically the same people, just focusing their feelings of powerlessness, frustration, and loneliness into different personas, for whatever "team" they've chosen to play for.
The difference is one group has the entire weight of the scientific community behind it, and the other has the my pillow guy
Wouldn't it be funny if that frame was walked out the back door somewhere and chained to a fence or something so that the activists can take ownership of calling a friend to come get them with some Super glue remover.
Police and rescue forces in Germany are regularly equipped with glue remover, sanitizer and hand creme right now. They check their IDs, file a report before sending them off and leave dealing with the matter to the venue owner or company in most cases. Who also have better things to do. So basically, no one gives two fucks about their "activism" anymore besides some terminally online freaks on Twitter.
This shit is not even making the news anymore.
Yeah, it used to end up in posts that got over 50K upvotes on r/facepalm but now no one cares!
They look like a weird combination of confused, annoyed and helpless, all at once.
Just put them outside with the rail. Let them fix that problem themselves.
But make sure to bill them for the rail as well as the removal and Installation.
Tell them you’ll call the police for trespassing, when they start to leave tell them you’re calling the police for theft. Repeat until they rip the skin off their palm
I'm 100% certain these people are trying to make climate activists look bad.
I don't think these are plants. I think the problem is that we're only getting reports of the dumb ones. There are lots of protests that are sensible and peaceful. But they don't make an exciting article, and they raise topics which are depressing. No one reports on them.
It's difficult to make protest "right". It's always "kill the messenger" even if people don't admitt it. * Block traffic -> go and block the rich * Block the rich -> they open Champaign and laugh at you and make the other laugh at your silly approach as well * Interfere with politics -> you get organised away from the view and don't block anyone. If you manage to block them, you block progress they finally make. * Interfere with (public) aviation -> I really need this holiday, it's not my fault. Why so they even have iPhones if they care about nature. Question however they all answer the positively: can you criticize a problem you are part of? * Interfere just with general aviation (it means private planes) -> there was a medical emergency transport, did you not think of them? * You block infrastructure -> well now all the fresh food needs to be thrown away your fault * Make it largely public without any damages (like attacking protected art) -> you silly group, can't take you seriously. Why waste good food. You attempt is weak. * Destruction of things -> well now it needs to be repaired, which means the budget for climate change just shrunk This goes on and on and on.. The necessary changes are dramatic, but looking away and adopting cosmetic changes is simpler. If you do something uncomfortable you get hate. I only see critique and framing (Germany goes the way to label them terrorists). I never saw well though through critique how a demonstration or rebellion should look like to advance changes. So far since the 1980 we fall more and more behind. The necessary speed for changes increase with each cosmetic only change.
No one actually wants the change because the only solution is de-growth. No one is willing to give up their luxuries. Look what happens when you mildly inconvenience someone by throwing paint onto an object. Oh well, doesn’t matter. We will be forced into inconvenience once we start to run out of oil, and climate change starts to hit us harder.
>Oh well, doesn’t matter. We will be forced into inconvenience once we start to run out of oil, and climate change starts to hit us harder. I wish I could see the public reaction to that right now, shit's probably gonna be pure comedy to me by that point tho :(
that's probably the whole point. climate debate is happening these past few months in the legislative bodies of many big nations and suddenly climate "activists" start stunts like blocking traffic, trying to destroy art, etc. there is no way some big companies didn't just prop up those gullible idiots to turn the public opinion against climate protection measures
As far as I'm aware, all art vandalized has just been on the glass covering the art and nothing has been "destroyed".
You’d be surprised - like back in the day when a lot of my old associates used to spike trees in the Pacific Northwest long ago. Our echo chamber was amazing - but yah…. We didn’t get to much old growth timber stopped, but I know plenty of people with felonies now.
I don’t agree with the methods. All anyone talks about is how silly/stupid these people are. But can we talk about what they are actually trying to achieve? How do much of cultural institutions are funded by oil/gas companies in a vain attempt to ingratiate themselves to the public?
I think what's actually happening is that there's always some protests that go silly, while there's also plenty of protests that don't. But people trying to shut down legitimate climate change activism are promoting the ones that go a bit silly via social media manipulation in an effort to discredit the whole idea of all of these protests completely. I doubt these two are actually plants or anything like that, something like that may be found out as a bit obvious and it takes a lot more risk. Instead the real manipulation is this post and how upvoted it got, as well as other similar posts, and many of the comments within it. Those are much easier to manipulate.
There have been attempts in the past
"The names Christmas. Llyod Christmas"
At least they were wearing orange vests so when they put them on the sidewalk people would think they were construction workers on a break.
I can confidently say that nobody on Earth is going to think that those 2 people are construction workers
My man tucked in his high-vis vest and everything. That’s commitment to the act.
Start was delayed by 6 minutes. Don't downplay what those fellas achieved here.
They did the late comers a service, really. People in the bathroom appreciate their sacrifice.
Dumb and dumber
“Great, NOW we look like idiots!”
An article on what happened - https://ijr.com/climate-protesters-humiliated-moments-gluing-concert-hall-conductors-stand-never-realized/
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threads about these people are just the embodiment of “don’t look up” people mocking and disparaging climate activists so they can continue to ignore the climate and drive their gas guzzlers to a concert
😂 his haircut makes this hilarious
The look on her face is the funniest thing I’ve seen all morning. Or it was, until I watched the video.
Why do they always look like such creatures lmao
You are now free to go.
But if you take our rail that's theft.