I feel like a van Gogh painting was a poorly picked target but also think van Gogh himself would approve.
It’s soup for my H. annui
I am suspicious of any form of praxis that would 100% lead to the arrest of the doers outside of purposefully locking/blocking something. Doing crime and getting away with it is itself a form of praxis against cops because it demonstrates the incompetence of pigs. Getting away with crime also means the pigs don’t have a police record of you, meaning you can do crime another day.
This is honestly taking the worst parts of adventurism (individualist action, merely cathartic with no long term planning, alienating towards average people) and aboveground action (known to cops, restrained by the law, target for reactionary vigilantes). I feel sorry for these kids because in their bid to “get the message out,” their faces are now known by every single reactionary and are seen as nothing more than senseless vandals by broader society.
In other news, now that they have discovered that London’s National Gallery has oil paintings, the US is preparing to invade.
:grillman: Some anti-Ukraine action right there. Must be the Ruskies!
Hm I wonder what percent of “we’re doing something broadly annoying and definitely unproductive to raise a w a r e n e s s” is an op like that
Seriously if you want to get attention to a cause, you can absolutely spend the time to think of something that is good and awesome, instead of whatever the fuck that shit was.
Seriously why attack some beloved cultural artifact when the CEO of Pollution parks his Tesla right fucking there
If it is an op (if), I wonder if the soup kids even realized it. Like how far down does the meta-op go? Where is the line between op and misplaced but sincere action?
My theory is the kids were persuaded to do it by higher ups. I have talked to someone who’s roommate was in Red Guards and they said basically the “leaders” would make all the 18 year olds that just joined do their weird stunts. Also they would be shamed if they didn’t do any praxis that day.
