even if Just Stop Oil isn't a "psy op" loaded to the gills with agents provocateurs taking money from an oil heiress and is completely sincere activism, it's fundamentally a reformist organization engaged in theatrics. You aren't going to mitigate the damage of climate change, let alone end it, within the confines of ongoing capitalism.
My question is why wouldn't you vandalize or destroy something related to climate change instead choosing one of the few standing structures disconnected to it?
I mean shit, if I was touristing and needed a treat selfie, how much cooler is getting one when Something (minor) Happened, rather than the old boring rocks that everybody has?
I don’t think vandalizing an archaeological site is going to suddenly change Big Oil’s mind. If you want to take down Big Oil, direct action against it is a good place to start. These rich kids just put an unnecessary burden on the working class people who now have to clean up their mess. This self-indulgent shit pisses me off.
These protests do work. And is suspected to be largely behind why a fair fraction of the population care about climate change. And working class people will be pressed into cleaning up the mess of direct action too, so I don't understand the argument there.
Fucking up rich people's pretty shit is a perfectly valid, if somewhat toothless, response. Yes, direct action is better, but is also more heavily violently cracked down on, the mass movement needed to make it viable isn't there.
These protests do work. And is suspected to be largely behind why a fair fraction of the population care about climate change.
This claim lacks evidence.
And working class people will be pressed into cleaning up the mess of direct action too, so I don’t understand the argument there.
It's one thing to create unnecessary burdens for working class people by doing some self-indulgent shit, but quite another to do so when you're actively fighting for the future of the entire working class. And no, rich kids who vandalize historical sites and works of art aren't doing that.
NO? Did you know that there are permanent cleaning jobs regardless of the size of the mess? You sound like the punk kid who kicks trash cans down the street claiming he's making sure cleaners have jobs.
It’s not going to change big oil’s mind. Nothing short of torturing executives and hanging their bodies off a bridge will change their minds. But at least this makes people mad which is the next best thing.
If you plan well, you can, by choosing your targets very carefully, disrupt the board of directors of a major oil company and thus affect its activities for some time. The most direct and effective way to do this, however, is by sabotage. I am not particularly advocating any of these strategies, I firmly believe that the only solution to climate change is socialist revolution, but these kinds of tactics can culminate in a revolutionary movement, while this other one that you say that "makes people mad" apparently does nothing to develop a revolutionary spirit.
The revolution won't be televised. Direct action is largely toothless. Iirc somebody lit themselves on fire to protest climate change and it was barely reported on. But somebody puts paint on the Stonehenge or even mildly inconveniences the public and it draws attention via outrage for a while. Literally all a protest is trying to do is draw attention to an issue. And this is one of the only methods I've seen that still works. Srsly why bother with direct action when it won't achieve anything
That's because lighting yourself on fire is counterproductive and doesn't work. Direct action is fundamentally mass action and the action of groups, not individuals.
Strikes are a prime example of direct action. It's also important that workflow is disrupted. Other forms of protest are nil, really.
People are too focused on the washable paint, not focused enough on climate change, and even less focused on the underground base beneath Stone Henge where Dr. Andonuts and Apple Kid are being held hostage.
The most hilarious part of this whole thing is the Daily Mail having to reluctantly pretend to be on the side of the neo-pagans they usually consider hippy parasites because they were mad it interfered with summer solstice.
Maybe, but you can't conclude that from the sentence at all? It simply says it's a place they've wanted to go to for 2 years. I know about Stonehenge, but haven't really thought "Y'know, I want to go visit that," but maybe that'll change.
As far as I know from my memory, it is organized by a bunch of rich kids and also the org gets its money from oil excs, shady stuff in general from their organizing
It's simply not possible that random people who are genuinely afraid of climate changes are doing irrational things out of fear of climate change. (sarcasm) "There must be some evil rational actor forcing them to do this so that they make ME look bad."
Declaring this to be a psyop recenters the narrative around yourself. It makes the narrative not about climate change or people reacting to climate change in irrational ways but instead about themselves. Yesterday it was not even called a "psyop", people were just calling them feds. Adding "psychological" to the narrative inserts the self into the narrative. It's twitter brain.
In 1000 years scientists will find the paint residue and people will appreciate it as an interesting historical fact that Stonehenge was once vandalized by a psyop meant to hurt climate change organizing
"Despite our image of Stonehenge as a grey, austere structure, during the late Tupperware/Wrapper Culture at the LTBIIIb-c boundary, local religious cults donned black masks and dyed it a brilliant orange while conducting their rites."
first article i saw, but a quick look at their website shows they have no criticism of capital, its just another one of those little bougie groups that funnel people away from any sort of real analysis for a showy little minute of 'direct action'
For one of the parasite in chief with idiot hat's many useless celebrations they projected a whole bunch of royal worshipping propaganda onto Stonehenge, so as far as I'm concerned this is far less offensive than that.