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    Just Stop Oil protesters spray Stonehenge orange

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    1. Delicious_Revenue809 on

      I think their biggest legacy will be destroying the museum/art gallery/heritage site going experience for everybody.

      In 5 years time I can’t wait to view Stonehenge from behind a barbwire fence, or have to go through a metal dector to see every painting behind glass at the National Gallery.

    2. 1nfinitus on

      Utterly disgraceful. Never known a bunch of more unlikable bellends, they make the Tories look like the most popular group around. Genuinely all they do is hurt their cause even more. Absolute zesty wet lettuces.

    5. mint-bint on

      What a bunch of silly bastards. The hippies at Stonehenge were likely the last people on earth still supporting JSO.

      Why attack them?

    6. HornyMidgetsAttack on

      Scum of the earth. I fully support the cause but their methodologies are just having the opposite effect, alienating possible supporters.
      Why don’t they focus on the oil compnies or the billionaires running them, rather than world heritage sites, pieces of art and commuters?
      If they keep it up the government will be able to justify their protest ban to the masses which will be just be the start of so much worse to come.

    7. undercoverdeer7 on

      i get they are trying to get media attention but this was a bad target, anyone know if this will wash off the stones easily? why can’t they stick to attacking big corporations instead? the national trust is hardly a danger to the climate!!

    8. catdog5566cat on

      We are talking about you Just Stop Oil! You’re raising awareness towards Climate change!

      Sorry, that’s come across wrong. Let me rephrase and start again.

      ——————-

      We are talking about you Just Stop Oil, calling you fucking idiots.

      You are raising awareness! To a topic I’m already 100% aware of!

      You’re alienating a shit ton of people every time you bunch of jobless students and pensioners open your mouths, and being a direct cause of anti protesting laws by annoying so many people that they backed them will be your only legacy.

    10. upupupdo on

      The conspiracy theory is these JSO people are funded surreptitiously by supporters of the petroleum industries. To poison the discourse on climate change.

    11. LemmysCodPiece on

      I think that the message JSO are trying to get across has some merit. Both the people and governments do need to a lot more to break our reliance on fossil fuels. I think their target of 2030 is largely impossible, but that is another debate.

      But what they seem unable to understand is in order to bring about change they must have the public behind them. Criminal damage on a popular monument like Stonehenge is not the way to go about it.

    12. TypicalPlankton7347 on

      Another blatant example of JSO specifically targeting ethnic British culture.

    13. PolarPeely26 on

      Man… bad optics… why Stonehenge. I understand it gets attention but man… go for something else… anything else…

    15. sjw_7 on

      Take that you Neolithic bastards. Serves you right for walking around the countryside doing all that hunting and gathering stuff. If you hadn’t been polluting the environment with your small wood fires we wouldn’t be in the mess we are today.

      Seriously though what the fuck is wrong with these Just Stop Oil idiots. I get protesting for something you really believe in but vandalising ancient monuments is just ridiculous.

    16. SignalButterscotch73 on

      I don’t believe these cunts give a toss about the environment, these “protests” are just an excuse for them to be cunts.

      If they actually cared about the environment they would be doing this crap to things that actually are harmful to the environment like say the HQ of an oil company rather than a lump of rock in the middle of a field that hasn’t moved in millennia.

    17. McFlyJohn on

      JSO’s only legacy is going to be ruining the museum and heritage experience for people (more barriers etc), and increasing public opinion on harsher laws and sentencing for protesters.

      All because some trust fund twats and retired uni lecturers are bored and fancy themselves as Waitrose Warrior Heros.

    18. Alert-One-Two on

      Oh ffs. I am all for protests to get attention but damaging something that old is just flat out wrong and unforgivable.

    19. AverageFishEye on

      Why did i never see how these people were forced to clean up the things they vandalised?

    21. sub2pewdiepieONyt on

      Don’t target Taylor’s private jet or her tour using actual OIL polluting huge amount daily Just stop oil, want to target some rocks in a field…. That have not polluted ANYTHING in their entire history. That makes sooooo muuuuuuuccccchhhhh senseeeeee.

    22. SomebodyStoleTheCake on

      You’re angry at Oil companies and the government, so you attack one of the oldest national heritage sites in England?…

      At this point, it’s just looking like these people hate the UK in general, and not oil.

    23. Ok_Cap_4669 on

      Seems a step too far. You don’t fuck with something that old.

      I won’t shed a tear if they end up charged for this and rightly so. This isn’t throwing some soup at the protective glass of some painting that can be easily cleaned or replaced.

      You fuck up Stonehenge, it ruins it for everyone to come.

      “water soluble” doesn’t mean it is guaranteed that it won’t leave marks. I remember fucking things up as a child with “water soluble” paints by accident

    24. fireflymidnightpie on

      What the fuck. Literally what does this achieve except for making them look like stupid, spoiled brats

    25. ExcellentHunter on

      How should this action help their case?! Spray banks who credit big oil, oil companies buildings, politicians who allow them to operate in this manner.

    27. Jiggaboy95 on

      Why tho?

      Call me crazy but these morons feel like they’re employed by big oil to make activists look as bad as possible. Notice how they never actually do anything to exec offices or the like?

      ‘Tinfoil hat firmly on’

    28. Judas-Yeast on

      Tinfoil hat time, but I genuinely think these are an industry or government plan of some kind, designed to put public opinion against protest groups.

    29. BetaRayPhil616 on

      Not against stunts arch as this, but you have to wonder about their effectiveness. Yes, it gets noticed and brings attention to it… but I wonder if it is just giving people in JSO the illusion of making a difference?

      Like, at what point does this differ from changing your profile picture if its having no material effect on outcomes?

    30. annamoon5213 on

      These people have lost it, which is a shame really, because the oil companies should be called to account for the environmental damage they’re causing. I personally think that green tech is a big scam too but this lot will fall for that as well.

    32. Own-Psychology-5327 on

      This is a weird one even for them, like expensive paintings and sport events I get but what did stonehenge ever do?

    33. Kinitawowi64 on

      Look, I get that JSO think that getting their name in the press is enough, like the headline of this post, as if they can force it into being some meme.

      Problem is that they’re not bringing attention to their cause, which they claim is about not renewing existing oil exploration licenses or issuing new ones (it’s not, it’s wholesale instantaneous abandonment of oil – *it’s in the name* – and if there are real consequences to logistics as a result of that then hey, at least they saved a tree). They’re bringing attention to *themselves*. Nobody’s paying attention to what their cause is, they’re paying attention to them. And people aren’t learning that JSO’s cause might be righteous, they’re learning that JSO are a bunch of attention seeking bellends.

    34. 10-10-2022 on

      Rich bellends desperate for attention.

      But everyone knows that the prehistoric humans moved those stones into place with machines rammed filled with oil.

    36. Geoffstibbons on

      Ironic that the badly painted stones will cause yet more traffic jams as people will slow down to take photos.

    37. RuleBritania on

      How can these muppets actually think in their tiny minds, that defacing an iconic national treasure can possibly illicit sympathy for their cause 🤔

    38. ColonelBagshot85 on

      Whilst I’m all for peaceful protests, it’s fucking atrocious to target and deface art and historically significant landmarks. You’re not endearing anyone to your cause.

    40. mildly_houseplant on

      JSO are just a bunch of attention hungry idiots desperate for people to look at them. They don’t care about the cause. The cause is the excuse. The goal is ‘look at meeeeeee’. Narcissistic idiots, all of them.

    41. leanmeanguccimachine on

      Some important context for the majority who appear to have not read the article, it’s just orange corn flour, so isn’t going to cause any problems. Not condoning it, but a lot of people have just assumed that genuine vandalism is going on. Corn flour is not going to damage rocks.

    43. VeterinarianFair5527 on

      This wasn’t a good idea but the amount of idiots in the comments going on about wanting to use oil more to spite them is unreal. You are the problem if you genuinely think fucking the planet up more to spite a bunch of protesters is fair on everyone else.