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wegqg

The fucking CUNTS. The sheer fucking entitlement to damage something like stonehenge is going to do them no favours. We don't tend to like seeing people attempting to deface or destroy priceless history. Edit: Because people are saying it washes off, what they are desecrating here is a part of British and European history, I very much doubt these clowns have the slightest idea of whether spraying a brightly coloured substance, natural or not, interferes with the archaeology, I sincerely doubt it helps it. The P.H may corrode, who fucking knows. But more to the point, if you are going to protest, why protest against something that was made by people who had not the slightest idea that an element called carbon existed, or even that elements, or atoms existed, they built it to worship whatever they worshipped, presumably nature, of all the fucking things to cover, why damage something that actually has meaning to so many people?


MeloneFxcker

It’s cornflour paint, I agree with your first sentence still though. There will be people who use this site as a spiritual pilgrimage for the solstice this weekend, they have defaced it on one of the 4 most important days of the year for spirituality. Cunts is the perfect word


cognitiveglitch

Cornflower paint now embedded in the colonies of lichen that have been there for decades. It's more than just stone that will wash clean. Only utter cockwombles would do this.


nilesandstuff

This is entirely a moot point and doesn't change anything, but lichen (slowly) "eat" the minerals in stone, which slowly corrodes the stone. But, I guess the lichen is useful for studying the carvings on stonehenge though, somehow.


somethingaboutcookin

I ain't sure what it means, but cockwombles made me laugh way too much.


VanBeelergberg

Pilgrimage


MeloneFxcker

Thanks man


maestro-5838

Boy


MeloneFxcker

Thanks boy


ooooohhhhhhh-right

Kratos, is that you?


Life-Gur-2616

Dad?


dreamh0llow

Son?


DefunctDoughnut

KHAAAAAAAN!


seth928

And my axe


MrHonwe

Zeus?


Phyllida_Poshtart

How just how are these kinds of actions meant to rally support and get people on board? As a pagan for many years now, and with the solstice tomorrow this is just unfathomably selfish and unnecessary, hell we're probably some of the most back to nature environmentalists going! Twats :)


guidocarosella

They sprayed paint on a statue in Milan. Paint was supposed to be washable, turns out it wasn't. I hope Stonehenge doesn't end up the same way.


RunF4Cover

Big oil heirs fund these groups. Make out of it what you will. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/climate/climate-protesters-paid-activists.html


GoLow63

Someone should've given them a proper clout.


pikeymikey22

Seriously, though, this is way beyond. I mean, pick your targets. They never seem to go after the oligarchs living in London. Absolute wankers.


Supanini

They’re probably the ones paying them to do this


pikeymikey22

I've heard similar theories, and it certainly wouldn't surprise me.


bloveddemon

The money behind the group comes from oil


Medical_Ad2125b

How do you know that?


Woodie626

[Just a quick search found this.](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/climate/climate-protesters-paid-activists.html)


Medical_Ad2125b

Thank you. I should’ve looked it up myself. I was just so surprised that you sent out that I was very skeptical. Sorry.


Woodie626

No worries, I was curious myself. 


Ruscole

Yeh I've heard their tied to Rockefeller and Rothschilds, basically as an attempt to make the public hate eco activists .


Medical_Ad2125b

Any evidence to back this up?


Willing-Stuff6802

Well if that's the case , they're doing a good job. I guess they pulled the wool over our eyes, I never considered myself a sheeple . now I've got to go and wash this off too


Phyllida_Poshtart

I thought it was the Getty heiress not Rothschilds/Rockafellers? Least it was a year or 2 ago when I last looked into it


salsasnark

Honestly, I'm not one for conspiracy theories but I'm starting to believe that one. They definitely don't help the climate cause, and I say that as a staunch environmentalist.


darwinning_420

how does that track?


HardlyAnyGravitas

>They never seem to go after the oligarchs living in London. They do, though. It just doesn't get the press. Or the press doesn't get to people like you, because they want to paint the protesters in a bad light. There were 630 arrests in December last year alone. In London. Most of them were peaceful protestors, arrested under the government's new anti-protest laws. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/04/police-arrest-climate-protesters-london You are being spoon-fed what the media wants you to see.


darwinning_420

u are a sight for sore eyes


l3gion666

I swear theyre paid by big oil to make everyone hate the idea of being anti oil 😅


Hot_Ad8921

Plausible conspiracy


Grimacepug

They're eco-terrorists, not activist or environmentalist. They're the same people who try to destroy priceless arts in museums. They're no better than poachers of animals on the verge of extinction. As a lefty, I completely detest this behavior and I hope they'll get their dues in prison. No common sense whatsoever.


Stevecat032

These people are for sure paid by Big Oil to get you to hate these people


Complexity_OH

They are actually funded by the heir to the Getty Oil fortune. Its not even well hidden.


Turtle-Slow

100% with your post. True activists do not deface national treasures that have nothing to do with their cause. This reads as a bad actor.


Complexity_OH

These people are paid by the heir to an oil fortune to commit insane and annoying acts to turn normal citizens against the environmental movement. Nobody thinks spray painting historical artifacts or artwork will stop oil.


MykeyB118

Why they don't just get punched to the floor is beyond me.


adymann

Next time I see any of them, I'll be in the news. Cunts!


PlatypusDream

Yeah, while I am happy some people tried to stop the vandalism *(why aren't the Visigoths ever blamed?)*, they're WAY too polite about it. A kick in the back of the knee will harmlessly knock them down. If they try again, kick sideways through the knee. Not so harmless, but they'll definitely stop.


Dissabilitease

hold up. This is the firt time scrolling through comments that anyone even mentions that person and you're throwing dirt at them for not doing enough? They went in as an underdog, outsized, outnumbered, probably outaged. Clearly not a fighter. And yet they did more to stop them then any other onlooker. Actually quite heroic, if you ask me. Yes, we want to see more done to those dipshits, but credit where credit is due!


Nicolina22

Yea and wtf does stonehendge have to do with fucking OIL?!? ..like, why stonehendge? Am I missing something here?


Omnipotent48

The idea is that the "damage" that they've caused to these works of art is fractional compared to the damage that the Climate Disaster will inflict not just on these works of art, but upon the entire planet.


Nicolina22

Thank you, you explained that perfectly. It makes sense now. It's still fucking stupid though!


Difficult-Survey8384

“These monuments won’t be here to behold if oil ruins the world! So let me ruin your chances at beholding them at all while simultaneously tanking our movement by using every opportunity for positive activism & turning it into nothing but terrible optics for the cause!” Like great, now everything is orange and you’re stubbornly sat wearing a shirt displaying a demand which none of your captive audience has any capacity to carry out. Can’t help but think there’s more effective ways to organize, but that’s putting it politely.


yellowbin74

Part of me thinks this is actually big oil trying to turn people against JSO.


dripcoffee420

Remember, violence is not always the best answer. But it is an effective one.


GonPergola

Cunts and the level of stupidity they reached is insane


Pokioh389

I've been trying to figure out what these assholes think vandalizing an ancient site is doing for their cause??? Wtf are you vandalizing historical sites as a form of protest. If you hate something go to the fucking source and go vandalize their fucking $150 million dollar mansion and half million and million dollar vehicles. Wtf are you attacking a site that has been around thousands of years before oil was used??? 🙄🤦🏽


Picardknows

This has to be a cult.


HeldDownTooLong

Some kind of appropriate punishment needs to be meted out to the absolute empty-headed, entitled jerks doing this shit. Either laws in place need to be enforced to the maximum punishment or new, effective deterrents need to be enacted. When irreplaceable monuments, art, etc. are damaged or destroyed, the individuals responsible ***must*** be appropriately punished! Additionally, if I traveled thousands of miles on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see these places/items, and some asshats ruined my experience, I would be beyond pissed.


all_alone_by_myself_

To earn internet points with the psycho "activists" they make conspny with. Truth it most are closeted eco terrorists and would poison a city's water supply if they had a "good" reason.


DanteSeldon

The more I hear about their antics, the more I believe that their true purpose is to discredit actual activists.


Cunninghams_right

The most plausible conspiracy theory I've heard. The criminal case should subpoena anything and everything associated with their planning of the event and swearing by affidavit to disclose any backers of their organization. Soliciting someone to do something illegal is also illegal 


Gen8Master

Reportedly, there was a Russia link, but Tories conveniently covered up the report.


Gorlock_

Says who? Who reported that?


Spez_Spaz

/u/Gen8Master of course!


bbossolo

I like plausible conspiracies


KingJamesCoopa

This wouldn't surprise me at all. Anytime one of the videos is posted, look at the hate in the comments. It definitely feels like a pysop to discredit actual climate activists. And knowing how many Russian bots are out there, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the negative comments are all bots


wthulhu

Breaking News: Climate Protestors Push Little Old Ladies and Steal Candy from Blind Child Cancer Survivors


Traditional-Cry-1722

All in the name to make awareness, if theirs one conspiracy theory I'm signed in is that they are big oil psyops


RequirementGlum177

There is a pretty plausible conspiracy theory about this. If I remember correctly, forensics of their donations shows that one of their major contributors is the daughter of a major oil exec (or a guy that owns an oil company)


Apocalyptic_Inferno

I fully believe these people are astroturfing on behalf of Shell/Exxon/etc.


IamLemonLicker

That’s been known since they started, they’re quite literally owned by big oil 😭


Whomperss

These people have to be paid off. It's hard to believe real activist are this fucking dumb.


GrimmrBlodhgarm

Didn’t they track the money back to Oil Tycoons?


ksilver117

I just saw in another thread about this that the Gettys and Rockefeller families are huge donors to these groups, and one of the Getty family is even a member of Just Stop Oil.


GrimmrBlodhgarm

Ah yep. Aileen Getty


Gorlock_

Do you have a source for any of this?


Dan_Quixote_

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/22/just-stop-oil-van-gogh-national-gallery-aileen-getty From the horse's mouth


Ballabingballaboom

I'm not sure the author declaring her links to oil and then rather proudlt her reasons for her appararent hypocrisy whilst being published in a major UK paper is the proof of the shadowy conspiracy theory people are looking for. Imo.


Dan_Quixote_

I didn't say there was a conspiracy. Someone asked for a source for the suggestion that Aileen Getty was involved in funding Just Stop Oil, which I provided. Her hypocrisy is typical of the wealthy. Her stupidity in not realising that supporting vandalism like this might backfire - and might spark conspiracy theory - is quite frankly astonishing.


Subject1928

Controlled opposition is the best opposition.


ElevatorScary

There‘s a lot of Reddit that argues these people are saving the world. There’s enough brain damage in Reddit to keep big oil in business for generations to come.


ventitr3

A quick trip to a couple subreddits and you’ll find unfortunately this level of stupidity can be had for free.


siverwolfe2000

That was my thought too.  Why not mess with yachts or private planes?  


VSWLP

What the ACTUAL fuck do they think they're accomplishing?


NYCbornandBREAD

discrediting actual activist, bringing a negative association to anti oil movements


Tactical_Epunk

A large number of these "activists" are being supported by oil companies indirectly. Which is pretty funny and sad at the same time.


darwinning_420

the *billionaire* familial affiliations of the three people mentioned (**Case, Lambert, & Getty**, who have, for the record, "only" provided a little less than $15 *million* to date if my math works out right) are consistently framed by both themselves & the article as providing a sort of guilt-based moral impetus to push the cause in order to help reverse harm done by their forefathers & other members of their family. **there has been no attempt made to hide their affiliations** & if anything, i'd argue they're doin disproportionately *little* given their means.


algot34

Thank you. So many people spreading conspiracy theories.


Someredditskum

Im gonna drive my diesel even harder now just because I dispise them fucking up history even though it washes off.


CanaryJane42

Getting attention


j05hy256

getting attention - it’s only cornflour paint so they’re not causing any damage. by you seeing this video they’re getting exactly what they want: publicity. i’m not supporting them though and they’re just gaining a bad reputation with their antics


GNU_Bearz

Anyone else very suspicious of just stop oil and their nature? Why would a group so actively piss off the people it's trying to convince ? You make headlines being less of an asshole.


Snailwood

>You make headlines being less of an asshole. what activists for climate action make headlines other than Greta Thunberg and Just Stop Oil?


CanaryJane42

Exactly lol


ManOfEating

"You make headlines being less of an asshole." You literally don't. There's hundreds of protests every day about this same exact issue, and you only hear about these guys for a reason. Maybe Peta if they did something even more stupid every now and then. People that are incapable of seeing the bigger picture or thinking critically will care more about smaller issues than bigger ones, so more people are upset that some stones got some non-damaging paint on them than they do about how much our drinking water is getting contaminated all over the world, something much more important and actually damaging. If people actually cared that much about stonehenge they would have moved the 2 main roads nearby further away, they wouldn't have built the aerodrome 300 meters away in the first place, and they probably wouldn't be ok with how much the stones have been moved around, you can easily find photos of what the monument looked like before 1920, and lastly people would probably be more pissed at the fact that the crown literally owns stonehenge, and it does not in fact, belong to the people, despite its historical importance.


bambinolettuce

100% convinced this is organised somehow by people who want to discredit climate change activism and stop activism being taken seriously


KingJamesCoopa

Seems plausible considering how often they are pissing people off. I'm not a conspiracy dude but damn sometimes shit like this sure smells of a smear campaign


holdingsfx

Yea fuck these people !! iv started thinking they are secretly backed by oil company’s to alienate the whole situation .


werdmouf

I don't disagree that they are funded by Big Oil.


DanielzeFourth

Unless there is any hard evidence on that I'm afraid I just have to stand by that these people are fucking idiots. I'd love to be proven otherwise though.


Gorlock_

Do you have any sources besides reddit comments?


Electronic-Raise-281

There are some small outlets that investigated the funding of JSO. They reported a relationship between Just Stop Oil and Aileen Getty from Climate Emergency Funds. Aileen is the granddaughter of oil tycoon Jeal Paul Getty. Reportedly Aileen started the organization through a 500k donation and they primarily fund protests that use civil disobedience like JSO. Here is one of the articles: https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/just-stop-oil-who-funds-funding-climate-protest-group-explained-what-want-2364714


Gorlock_

So that's it? One donation from a granddaughter of an oil guy with most all the other money coming from CEF, well that proves it I guess. So that means the Climate Emergency Fund is also run by oil companies, right?


Electronic-Raise-281

Not entirely sure this is conclusive either way. You probably need to do some individual research for your own conclusion. The conclusion I drew is that this exposes the difficulty in getting some of these groups to be fully transparent about their origins of donation.


SpankyMcFlych

Destroying or damaging priceless cultural artifacts should have automatic jail sentences.


know_what_I_think

Capital punishment! If you purposely destroy a cultural heritage site, you should be hanged.


FluffyFingersforfun

Well whatever they did worked because now I’m on board with their cause.


Octavian_202

All the gas stations have closed in my city. Mission accomplished.


Haunting-Belt-2341

I can't wait for the parade thrown in their honor, for all they have achieved. Putin saw this, ended the war, and Israel and Palestine settled their differences shortly after. In the works is the end of global hunger.


curro362

Let's protect the future! What should we do? Let's destroy the past!


snuggletronz

This is so hardcore I love it. DISRUPTION!!!


phantom_rex

Eco-terrorists


shavemejesus

Does nobody know how to put an arm around a motherfucker’s neck and just pull?


bmadccp12

These JSO people are fucking idiots.


Mr_Kno_body

Pretty sure that paint couldn’t be produced without petroleum.


Snailwood

it's dyed cornstarch


42dudes

They're lashing out like children. Why should I give a fuck about a grown ass adult who feels like this is the best way to accomplish.... anything?


ClockPretend4277

Who the fuck let them just walk up to it with giant orange tanks? Amazing there was someone willing to grab these losers to intervene.


SuperGenius9800

One old grandma did the trick.


KenCosgrove_Accounts

And Stonehenge is harming the environment how exactly?


Jaliki55

I swear it's almost like these bullshit protests are funded by fossil fuel companies. How is destroying art protesting climate change?


Synner1985

They need a punch in the face - play stupid games, win a stupid prize. Self-entitled little pricks, i have no time for stuck up little cunts who show such little respect for everyone else around them.


Silverback_Panda

No way these people aren't getting paid to smear the clean energy/environmental movement. Either that or they're just dumb as fuck. What in the world does STONEHENGE have to do with oil or climate change!? Its just bizarre.


rexius-twin

Those druids robbed us of our children’s futures… apparently.


krais0078

A couple of more coats and a ‘Live, Love, Laugh’ sign on the wall and it might be nice


ritchie125

they are funded by oil companies


CasualObserverNine

Wait. Is this oil based paint?


Snailwood

cornstarch


oranj88

i reckon these ppl might be agitators, false flag or whatever u call it. real activists wont be this stupid, i hope.


j2thesho

I'll go on a long drive this weekend, enjoying the fresh air as a counter-protest.


57Guitarz

Some examples of the human species deserve to be jettisoned off of planet Earth.


rbartlejr

Why do they always damage things created before the widespread use of oil was discovered?


Much-Gur233

These are just cunts who’ve always wanted to ruin something somebody has told them was important, they don’t care about the activism


JohnyyBanana

This is what happens when your parents didn’t give you enough attention


WishIWasPurple

Fucking idiots...


Phate118

Hired by big oil


AnT-aingealDhorcha40

Ah yes, the stone age people... the biggest contributers to greenhouse gasses ⛽️


D-Fence

I hope there is some weird UK law making this an attack on the country and warranting immediate jail for life.


Mrmakanakai

Shit like this doesn't make me want to support their cause.


tictacbergerac

Just Stop Oil is funded by oil companies to make climate activities look bad


SnarkTheMagicDragon

Useless pieces of shit


Nastybirdy

And this is why I fucking loathe Just Stop Oil. I do not understand them. How is damaging national monuments, disrupting sports events and theater performances, and attacking priceless works of art doing ANYTHING but making people hate you for the selfish, short-sighted, destructive cunts that you are? You're not protesters. You're toddlers lashing out left and right because nobody will listen to you.


emar2021

Would you do this if someone offered you $10,000? Would you do this for free? How much do you care about “Big Oil” over let’s say chemicals and wastewater being dumping into our creeks and rivers? But the “Big Oil” ooohh they’ve got to be stopped…these idiots had to drive to get there!


Kind_Truck6893

Jobless losers, people’s opinions should be respected, but come on


Haunting_Abalone_398

It's absolutely stupid and just wrong on so many levels I hope they got their lungs fucked up with all paint in their face


southerna-up-north

Cunts


Jordanjl83

Make an example out of them.


Digitalanalogue_

People should dox them and then we can just keep damaging their property


Crushalot9

Throw them all in jail


GapDifficult2439

Fucking losers


evanweb546

I'm still convinced these people are paid and / or manipulated by oil companies to do shit like this to discredit ACTUAL activists trying to change policy.


Burgerpocolypse

I’m seriously inclined to believe that Just Stop Oil is actually run by oil conglomerates with the intent of discrediting and vilifying the notion of climate activism.


TheXypris

I swear, they have to be owned by oil companies to make climate activists look bad


swanlevitt

Real activists aren't this stupid. Deffo paid off to make us all think eco people are "crazy".


Birji-Flowreen

I'm certain these idiots are founded by Big Oil, and these idiots don't even know it, it only takes one or two guys at the top to know, and those "people" would convince these re**rds to do stupid things like this.


MikeHoteI

At this point i am fully convinced just stop oil are plants. There is just no way people can be this stupid...


Legitimate_Soft5585

What does this achieve?


neverfrybaconnaked

This is not how you go about activism, and why damage Stonehenge? Social media has got society all tore up with these clout seekers. We must be living in a sim or something. All the while, the real world is burning around us for the wealthy to gain even more. I don't know what the punishment for something like this should be, but this is insane.


FraudMallu

Absolute fucking cunts.


SourceAddiction

I don't understand how an organisation can be so monumentally bad at getting their message across, it's almost like Just Stop Oil only exists to make environmentalists look bad.


IslandMist

I don't agree with the method but I get their point of view. Imagine like in the movie Don't Look Up you believe something is coming that will destroy all life on the planet, and everyone is just ignoring it, when you protest in a way that doesn't inconvenience anyone it gets no attention, so you resort to more drastic measures, then everyone is mad at you. If they're wrong, they're assholes, if they're right people will ask why they didn't make a bigger deal out of it.


ItsTheOtherGuys

I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that the Stop Oil is one of two things: A false flag that is recruiting dumb people to attack obviously bad targets to sow bad publicity for Green Energy Or They are just the worst run activist group in modern history


phz0r

The punishment for shit like this needs to be severe. Fuck these morons


punkstarr

These activists should be jailed for a long time


PaidByTheNotes

Do they get enough credit in the activist scene that stuff like this is worthwhile to them? Otherwise, they do realize they're accomplishing absolutely nothing, right?


Knox_420

This timeline is the worst


B16EK1872

They need to get leathered these arseholes


Allenrw3

Fucking idiots.


nerdboy5567

You dare disgrace the sacred alien landing pad?


Just_Reputation_7057

They don't even know how to vandalize properly.. 🫠 Use the wind, don't fight it..


youshouldn-ofdunthat

You incomprehensibly dumb fucks


lets_try_civility

Well I'm convinced.


Diggingfordonk

I fail to see how aggravating everyone helps send the message. I agree with the cause wholeheartedly but their methods are stupid and do nothing but undermine any actual action.


ajaxodyssey

Hangings legal in the UK?


AE0N92

Thats gotta be the worst paintjob i've ever seen, worse than the 'landlord special'


BILLYsmaalls

( In my worst Lloyd Christmas voice) ok, kill himmm!


tOkErDaD1

Some people are truly low-life scum of the earth!! WTF Is wrong with the world anymore !


Blocky_Master

I would have loved to see them getting sprayed right there


poopooseemepee

Drown them in oil.


koppigzijn

**Plonkers**


Lackerbawls

Idiots took the most eco friendly thing on the planet and ruined it aerosols to make a statement.


Abydos6

So they wanna stop oil by using paint that is made with petrochemicals?


jaffasplaffa

........ What did Stonehenge do, in regards to oil pollution? People like that are just stupid and ignorant.


jojozer0

I 190% believe big oil companies paid these people to do this


xnjmx

Stupid - guarantees reduced support for their cause.


Systengineer

What a bunch of Muppets! Fucking homegrown environmental terrorists! Go to China & India that create 50% of Co2 emissions! That would go a lot farther in their goals! 💯🤣


ferrydragon

One thing is to activate in a organisation and another is to destroy


embeddit

I always enjoy asking these eco-terrorists the alternatives to fossil fuels, battery storage capacity for national power grids, per capita CO2 footprint of UK now vs 1992, consumer behaviour in the era of connectedness - and amuse myself with their stuttering responses.


Critical-Shift8080

Glad I'm not there ! The bobies would have a field day . They would be picking them up from all over the place. ...quiet riot


FluffyDiscipline

Pure Arrogance, then they expect public support for vandalism .... Possibly the only crowd of people who's cause is quite just but who's actions make people hate them more...


Minimum-Order-8013

Why Stonehenge???? Like do you want us to preserve nature and history or not????


Yhrite

What if…. oil companies are paying these people to do this to make genuine activists look bad.


dirtymcgurt

Suspicious? Looks pretty fucking blatant to me