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Just Stop Oil protestors break into airfield, spray paint 2 private jets orange

www.theguardian.com Two people arrested after activists spray private jets with paint at Stansted

Just Stop Oil activists cut through fence to break into Essex airfield where Taylor Swift’s plane stationed

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Relevant as always.
Be a lot cooler if they blew it up
- At the very least throw a wrench into the engine
They’re strategy is to make life ‘annoying’ enough that rich people will react to everyone begging them to stop destroying the planet. I doubt they’re actually feds, I think they’re just run and funded by bougie morons
- At least this is more effective than standing in front of a building holding up a sign.
  
  Escalation is good. Hopefully this encourages some people to be a little more bold, take a little more risk...
- They’re strategy is to make life ‘annoying’ enough that rich people will react
  
  Stopping highways and stuff makes life annoying for not rich people, and they predictably react by saying "fuck the climate and fuck these kids" or something like that
- Are they really not the least bit self aware? I've not seen a single person in my environment react positively to these kinds of stunts.
  
  I think that's the point, they are trying to make life increasingly annoying for everyone, especially westerners, until climate change is adequately addressed. I can backseat activist all day and nitpick what they're doing, but honestly it's more direct action than I've ever done for the climate
  
  Is it better for people ignoring environmental issues to be comfortable or mildly annoyed, assuming they aren't taking action either way?
- If I remember right one of their primary sponsors is the heiress to the Getty oil family.
A cordless drill and a long drill bit would have been quicker and more effective.
You have painted my private jet orange, thus shaming me. I now have no choice but to abandon my polluting ways.
You already did the hard part, just do the cool bit.
- people talk about these kinds of actions like its proof that these are "psyops" but i think the more obvious explanation is that these activists feel that they're fighting a crisis of the system, rather than the system itself, so they'll violate certain legal strictures, but not the moral ones that they've been deeply inculcated with since birth. "people over property" is their program, but of course we can't do away with property altogether.
At least they targeted something that actually contributes to climate change for once.
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Just Stop Oil released a press statement on their website.

One of the protestors said:
"We’re living in two worlds: one where billionaires live in luxury, able to fly in private jets away from the other, where unlivable conditions are being imposed on countless millions. Meanwhile, this system that is allowing extreme wealth to be accrued by a few, to the detriment of everyone else, is destroying the conditions necessary to support human life in a rapidly accelerating never-ending ‘cruel summer’. Billionaires are not untouchable, climate breakdown will affect every single one of us."

The other protestor said:
“Over the years, I’ve had to realise that even working in sustainability provides me with essentially no ability to make the necessary changes to prevent the complete collapse of our natural systems. I have to take desperate measures to make my voice heard. In 2024 we all have to be considering what we can do each day to change the course our society is on. We need an emergency treaty to stop the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030.”
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  They're paid for by a Getty, who seems to hate her family. It's run by rich kids, but they are kind of class traitors so it's cool I guess? Definitely a bit out of touch with the masses though
It’s good luck to throw loose change into the engines.
Well I guess it makes more sense than throwing flour on a Bronze Age world heritage site.
- Technically it predates the British bronze age, it's one of the few well-preserved neolithic sites. Though any permanent damage done by yesterday's stunt is 100% the fault of the fossil fuel capitalists for sabotaging the last fifty years of environmental policy, I don't blame the kids at all
  
  Yes, but then we’d have to explain it was started in the Neolithic, but the last stage was early Bronze Age and might have been built by the people whose DNA replaced 85ish percent of the native Britains, and it’s not even a proper henge and it’s still not as good as Avebury etc etc :)
  
  I haven’t read the article, but does it mention how many people there were, how far they travelled and by what method. Was the cornflour locally sourced?
feds finally did something at least a little cool

Death to America
That will surely teach them
orange paint
it's a step up from throwing paint at old paintings.
no more half measures walter

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