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.

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Fire is harder to wash off

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I have an idea. Destroying it probably just gets written off from insurance.

Wash the boat with undiluted pine sol.

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Literally no damage done to the boat will ever actually financially harm the bitchionaire. That’s not the goal of protest - though it’s certainly a bonus when it’s achievable.

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So it slips out of the water. Smart.

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What does undiluted pinesol do?

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Undiluted pine sol is the smell of pine, but it is incredibly strong, and takes forever to get rid of.

Back on reddit there was a story about some soldiers that resorted to it to “speed clean” the smell of their training facility. It’s far more effective in an enclosed space.

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They’ll sue for emotional damage or some rich person bullshit idk

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You’re right they shouldn’t set fire to the boat

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Even harder when you spray with gasoline first.

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Cleanse the yacht with holy fire!

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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…”

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Make sure it’s something that will take her servants an extra hard time to clean

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The bottom of the ocean would be pretty hard to clean.

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They should put the billionaire on the bottom of the ocean, not the boat. The boat might be useful for something.

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Yeah, then her servants would have to start filing paperwork and have another yacht pulled out of storage while they design the new one.

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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’

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As an added bonus lots of chemicals and crap will be put into the environment.

Yup this sounds productive to vandalize someone’s boat.

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Supposedly they used biodegradable paint. On that measure, you can’t fault them.

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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.

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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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All billionaires are ethically in the wrong.

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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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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.

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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?

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Bigot.

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Expound.

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Fuck yeah. They should live in constant and non-stop fear of the people they hoard from

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“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.

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Lol you haven’t seen many rich people have you? This is definitely something they fear.

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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.

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Oh ok. That’s fair I guess if you’ve found a better way. What have you done?

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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.

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They SHOULD, but this won’t accomplish that.

Let’s think of something better.

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12 points

Look no further than medieval French engineering!

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5 points

Time for some TrebuchetMemes?

Did you know a trebuchet can use a counterweight to throw a 90KG projectile over 300 metres?

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All jokes aside, and we might agree in some specifics -

https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too

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…

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Wouldn’t hurt to complement it with one of their more modern techniques - large crowds using Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, Nitrogen and Oxygen

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