Spanish climate activists sprayed red paint across a superyacht owned by billionaire Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie in Barcelona on Friday, the second time the yacht has been the target of protests in the past two months.
All billionaires are ethically in the wrong.
Not really but this one in particular is the Michael Jordan of drunk driving and I believe got away with manslaughter.
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Bigot.
Yes, really. There are no ethically sound reasons for a person to have all this money when there is so much inequality. Moreover, there is no ethical ways to accumulate all this money. If you are billionaire either you or your daddy had to do a lot of explicitly unethical shit, and in order to retain it, you have to do unethical shit, actively, right now.
Capitalism, no matter how benign, and well intended, is literally exploiting labor from those who are lesss fortunate. And thanks to that malignant leprechaun Milton Friedman, every MBA since thinks that they’re legally bound to maximize dividends for investors instead of compensating the people who do the actual production. It’s obscene, sociopathic, and literally evil. But if Jeebus didn’t want them to rich, they wouldn’t be, right?
Expound.
More mandatory overtime for her staff. She’ll never know it happened unless one of her social media managers sees it on Twitter and mentions it to her.
That’s what I don’t get.
The owner of the yacht doesn’t give a shit. It’s beneath them.
Those activists just made a headache for the working class crew who run the yacht.
Good work sticking it to the man’s working class employees! /S
They got their message on international news, and they did it targeting the super wealthy instead of blocking traffic or otherwise hindering innocent people. Frankly I don’t care if the crew has a ‘headache’ being paid to clean up some biodegradable paint, they’re just being paid for one task instead of another. What actual harm of any kind has this done? The benefit might be small but it’s nonzero unlike what most of us are doing.
they did it targeting the super wealthy instead of blocking traffic or otherwise hindering innocent people
Reminds me that the point of protest is to be disruptive. Oh, you’re blocked on your way to do your job? Your job is to do your job, not to fight other workers on behalf of your employer
I don’t get the whole ‘protest should not ever inconvenience anyone, ever’ line of thinking- if I’m travelling for work and I get stuck in traffic behind a protest, I bill my time and that’s how I pass the disruption signal along to where it needs to land
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Because targeted vandalism is easier and more satisfying to animalistic urges than the long work of organizing political backing, running for office, enacting societal change
Mate people have been trying all that since the 70s and it didn’t achieve much
They’re creating jobs by fucking up the yacht aren’t they?
Or is it only billionaires that “create jobs” when they fuck up the entire world?
And then they buy more red spray paint on Amazon because Walmart was out .
Side note, didn’t the movie company make bank from people buying those V for Vendetta masks to protest against corporations or something? Vague memory of it
Yeah, between Anonymous and Occupy Wall Street those masks were very profitable for the people being protested against.
I’m sure their brief and ultimately pointless unpopularity was well compensated for by those extra revenues.
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Fuck yeah. They should live in constant and non-stop fear of the people they hoard from
They SHOULD, but this won’t accomplish that.
Let’s think of something better.
Look no further than medieval French engineering!
Time for some TrebuchetMemes?
Did you know a trebuchet can use a counterweight to throw a 90KG projectile over 300 metres?
Wouldn’t hurt to complement it with one of their more modern techniques - large crowds using Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, Nitrogen and Oxygen
All jokes aside, and we might agree in some specifics -
Any new order that was established needs to limit the violence as much as possible. Because revolutionary violence as often as not eats the children of revolution.
In the meantime though…
Good read
“Fear”
You really think they give a shit? About something like this? They just pay someone $200 to clean the yacht. Sink it and they just buy a new one. This isn’t anything.
Lol you haven’t seen many rich people have you? This is definitely something they fear.
Then they have a weird way of showing it. They’re doing an awful lot of hoarding and exploitation for somebody within pitchfork distance.
I honestly hope you are correct.
The rich know there will always be people who will tell you you’re protesting wrong.
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I stopped shopping at Walmart and started shopping on Amazon. By switching what billionaires I support I am going my part.
Sad thing is, Amazons profit margins on their shopping shit is razor thin. It’s AWS that is making bank, and that’s like half of the servers on the internet.
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Are you the person that spray painted the yacht? If not, then you’re just talking shit and doing nothing.
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Scuttle it next time.
We gotta get the orcas in on this one.
Here’s a personal finance tip: Don’t buy a yacht, or any boat, like, ever. If you really want one and have the money, just rent one, these thing costs a ridiculous amount of money to maintain for something that’s going to be used like once or twice a year at most.
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Stop fucking around and sink it.
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I love it. God bless us every one.
Good. Symbolic protests are a way to surface issues suppressed by the dominant ideology. If it gets any media coverage it is a success.
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It’d be better if we didn’t have to replant the trees they cut down in the first place.
Or sink the damn yacht.
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So you’re saying you think they should burn the yacht?
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Fine we’ll burn it AND plant enough trees to offset the carbon of it’s destruction. You in now?
Imagine that, some people are actually willing to sacrifice for change, unlike your useless ass who only seems interested in criticising those actually acting.
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Broooo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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they used biodegradable paint, because they anticipated comments on the internet like the one you have made, complete with an ad hominem attack. the boat didnt need to be repainted.
where would you like them to “plant trees” in the meaningful way you would prefer these “idiots” to do? In the acres of land they happen to own that they can reforest with native species, yes? Perhaps you should contact them to remind them about the land they own that they’ve forgotten about.
what they’re doing is getting headlines and drawing attention to how “billionaires should not exist”, which they’ve done. People are seeing this, people are thinking about it, people are talking about it, people are taking time to hot-take simple solutions to the climate emergency like “them idiot protesters should go plant some meaningful trees”
I’m not sure if you’re bootlicking for billionaires intentionally or not, but attacking those attacking them with your useless armchair “meaningful solutuion” only serves them…
Well put and you included a source that’s bonus points yo
What if instead of shitting on people that are trying to support your cause, you instead try to kindly guide them or show them how you see things.
Especially considering you’re supposed to be a wookie Mr. >:(
Eating a single rich person is equivalent to planting millions of trees.
Everyone’s complaining that this doesn’t do anything and is counter productive, but you know what this looks like to me?
Propaganda of the deed. Someone will look at this and think “I know better things to spray her superyacht with than paint…”
Make sure it’s something that will take her servants an extra hard time to clean
The bottom of the ocean would be pretty hard to clean.
Yeah, then her servants would have to start filing paperwork and have another yacht pulled out of storage while they design the new one.
Not if the bottom-of-the-ocean thing happens when the oligarch in question is on board.
They should put the billionaire on the bottom of the ocean, not the boat. The boat might be useful for something.
Billionaire’s yacht? Hardly. But it may be scrapped. Expensive furniture and tech sold, high quality engine and parts repurposed.
ADMIRALTY ORDERS
To Cpt. S. Technique
‘Intercept Walmart billionaire’s megayacht KAOS en route to extinction, INTENT ON CARRYING US ALL TO THOSE WATERS…Sink, Burn, or take her a Prize’
As an added bonus lots of chemicals and crap will be put into the environment.
Yup this sounds productive to vandalize someone’s boat.
Tell us you didn’t read the article without saying that. Plus even if they had used normal paint, that’s literally nothing compared to what this yacht does on a regular basis.
Supposedly they used biodegradable paint. On that measure, you can’t fault them.
Jealousy becomes vandalism?
I wonder how they feel good themselves if people from Africa came and vandalised their house and say rich people should exist
There’s a difference between working class and a billionaire that exploits millions of workers.
Very good point
I believe these activists have probably had empathy for the global poor. This walmart bitch creates the global poor.
They are free to give up their “wealthy” Spanish life and go help those “poor” people get rich.
More action less talk.
The billionaires are literally the reason everyone else is poor. They use that wealth and power to keep wages stagnant and neo-colonialism and neo-slavery churning.
Divide the wealth of the billionaire and the number of poor people and see how much they each get
It’s how they use their power of capital, not the actual dollar amount. They have the decision making power above all the rest of us. They are deciding to create a deeply unfair and violent world.
What does Africa have to do with this, weren’t the activists from Spain? 🧐
Comparison. These billionaire compare to average Spaniards are filthy rich.
These Spaniards are filthy rich compare the most people in African.
I doubt the action came out of “care”, more out of jealousy.
I doubt the action came out of “care”, more out of jealousy.
So they’re acting like billionaires?
not sure if the billionaire are jealous or not.
The protest going around vandalising property to make their point is definitely an action from jealously.
People have vote with their money to shop at Walmart.
Billionaires don’t get jealous? I guess I meant greed.
Some are, some not. Hard to judge.
Everyone expects others to give what they have away like a river flowing downstream.
Show me a billionaire that isn’t motivated by greed. Seriously, I’ll wait.
But honestly, how is it you can know the motivations of a protestor and most other people but not whether a billionaire is greedy?
Vandalism should not exist
The owner is such a dumbass he does r even paint the whole thing red lol!
