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Just Stop Oil activists throw soup at Van Gogh's Sunflowers after fellow protesters jailed | UK news | The Guardian

Three individuals targeted National Gallery paintings an hour after Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for similar attack in 2022

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So according to this judge Earth = not priceless

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

The judge is probably old as fuck so global warming will just mean he can go on retirement cruises all year round

[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago

THEY DID DAMAGE TO THE FRAME frothingfash

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ukkk Keep doing this to your climate activists and soon enough their sentences won't even be able to be completed because the prisons will be underwater.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago

When the climate disaster has escalated to that point, they will have already switched to summary executions

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

These protestors aren't even doing terrorism yet and they treat them like trash

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

Let's hope Kali is pregnant.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

they are gonna make it a public calamity when they do

[–] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago

You two simply had no right to do what you did to Sunflowers, and your arrogance in thinking otherwise deserves the strongest condemnation.

WHAT YOU DID TO SUNFLOWERS rage-cry for being an allegedly serious crime, they phrased their condemnation in the silliest way they could

[–] pastalicious@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago

I've seen the video. 10k in damage to the frame is absurd. If someone simply cleaned the soup within an hour or two of them throwing soup on it then it was as good as new. If they left it to soak in for 24 hours and damage the wood then that's negligence on the museum's part.

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That plane of glass has never done more work than in this sentence. The glass did its job and the painting is fine.

By this logic if you shoot at someone and they're behind thick bullet proof glass you've legally murdered them

[–] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Attempted Murder is a charge places.

[–] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Shooting in the direction of someone in the full knowledge that your bullet will not possibly hit them is not attempted murder. It's.. actually not any crime.

[–] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd say it was property damage to the window so vandalism? What about intimidating? Or are you saying they person behind the window is in on the shooting for lulz?

[–] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, this is obviously taking the analogy too far for argument's sake. You can't intimidate a painting and soup doesn't damage glass.

[–] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't be mad at me I'm very pro planet earth as well as pro soup

[–] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Not mad atcha, just disagreeing. It's all good mario-thumbs-up

[–] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago

Your lucky your behind that glass and that I'm out of soup!

[–] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Protecting the artwork on the Titanic is my new metaphor for how stupid this is.

I'm a big fan of art, but uncritical support for an endless flow of soup at valuable items until rich people stop killing all of us.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 months ago

Why are they putting $10k frames on soup throwing range

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

On March 30th , 1987, at Christie's London, Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh sold for £24.75 million

berdly-smug Not so priceless after all.

Also, if the pane of glass is so potentially vulnerable, why is no one telling the museum that it needs to beef up security?

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

It's just impossible to clean an oil painting covered with water soluble soup

And the price of the painting went up by a few millions for the added notoriety

Who the fuck designed the glass pane so that it didn't cover the frame?

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

Didn't the UK arrest some activists before they did anything a while back? Sink that hellhole already.

[–] The_sleepy_woke_dialectic@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The piece of glass that they knew was there and knew would stop the soup, which it did??

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

But imagine if it wasn’t there. Ever think about that?

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

Meanwhile, an entire US state is basically floating away from record-shattering hurricane storm surge.