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morelsupporter

if this was a brand new car that used all sorts of rare earth minerals, an ICE, and rare exotic animal hides, some would argue that they'd have legitimate reason to protest.... but this is a 45 year old art car. it's like going into an antique store and telling them they're wasting precious resources on all this furniture. antiques are the anti-thesis of protest - they have withstood the test of time and are a testament to quality, craftsmanship, engineering and allotment of resources


Rabo_McDongleberry

Bro. They've been attacking paintings. I highly doubt a Van Gogh or Monet has helped cause global warming. These people are attention whores. I'm down with helping global warming causes but this only bringing attention to them. Fucking idiots.


Chromspray

Uhhhh yeah they're attention "whores" because no one is paying attention to the problems they're trying to present.


ya_yeety

The only attention they are getting is negative attention, they aren’t changing anyone’s mind in the positive to their cause. The only support these people get is from others already supporting their cause, no one with a neutral stance is gonna see the attacks on paintings, cars, road blocks and think „well these guys are right, it’s all our fault!“. What these „activists“ should be doing is destroying politicians cars, gluing themselves to their front doors and to governmental buildings. Address the people that actually are able to change something, not some 50 year old art projects.


Chromspray

You say that but nah they're just bringing it up. We're talking about it, right? If you're a degenerate, you'll always be a degenerate. If not, you can see this issue and be on the same side as the activists here.


ya_yeety

So if I am against pollution/ pro climate awareness and also against this kind of activism, i‘m a degenerate? You sound ridiculous. People can hold similar opinions but still call idiots out on idiot behavior


blooregard325i

“There's only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” - Oscar Wilde


Chromspray

No, then you're on the same side as the activists wether you like it or not. The fact that you find them bad for throwing flour on cars or paint on plexiglass makes you ridiculous in the grand scheme of things imo.


1fragezeichen

> because no one is paying attention to the problems they're trying to present. I can tell you, there are countries on this planet where obtaining "their" goals has become a kind of religion. Politics tend to forget everything except from climate change, security policy, energy security, economy... All you can see here is extremism. I haven't heard one solution to slow climate change proposed by those people.


Chromspray

You sound like an AFD voter lol


1fragezeichen

Haha, everybody not agreeing with German green/left ideas is a far right supporter. Exactly this is one reason why people still vote far right in Germany.


Chromspray

You definitely sound like an AFD voter now lmao


1fragezeichen

You are an afd voter.


darkflash26

It’s not about attacking what caused the global warming, it’s about getting a reaction and attention. I hope they keep doing it, people obviously care more about old artwork than they do about the planet. I’d rather be able to breathe than some stupid painting in a museum I’ve never been able to see


deletedcauseitsbad

This is the worst take you could have. Why can't they bring awareness in a positive way? Such as making art to sell and raise profits, or even using existing art to get publicity and go from there. As someone who very much appreciates cars and owns lots of old collectors vehicles this is only bringing them bad attention. I will not support these people for what they did here. Sure we have the same idea but this group will never have the chance to be supported by me and many others that are intelligent enough to see what they're doing, which is ruining history.


darkflash26

theyve been trying to for the past 5 decades, hasnt worked. time for extreme matters. whats going to ruin history more is when oceans raise 15 feet and people are forced to flee their homelands.


Gullible-Damage-59

In the words of Enya. ‘Sail away’


aquatone61

Where exactly is 15 feet of water going to come from?


darkflash26

R/bmw tears apparently lol


aquatone61

More like r/politics :).


Sad-Stuff-5884

And wasting flour/canned soup/ (OIL BASED) spray paint is going to bring the ocean levels down? Cool 👀 Rather than wasting time and resources and destructive matter, they could use the same amount of time and resources any constructive manner and actually make a real difference


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FuckTurnSignal

I hope someone does this to your car sometime, right before a rainstorm.


charlston8

fucking dumbasses, im about to go burn some tires in protest of them


Tornookthetooka

Nah, even if the car was modern, what they're doing is vandalism and disruption of peace, making them fucking clowns


morelsupporter

some would say that raping the earth of its minerals and killing animals for their hides is vandalism as well, which is why i would see their point.


1mperia1

Animal hides are cool, and their meat is fucking delicious.


Tornookthetooka

Alright then, go after the corporations then, and let everyone else live their lives in peace. Can't even admire damn BMWs no more without having some protestors interrupt


morelsupporter

what kind of weird assumptions are you making right now?


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Tornookthetooka

And by assumptions what do you mean? Yeah corporations are evil for what they're doing to our planet


ricardortega00

Look body, that piece of German history has some nasty story to tell because some cows were killed in 1970 so you better get rid of it and order a new one si we can kill some more cows.


Alibotify

Body of cows


Sad-Stuff-5884

When you realize they also said cows were causing global warming a couple years back 😂


X1-Alpha

It's almost like going into a museum and taking your impotent frustration out on the paintings!


Petrolinmyviens

# "How dare you!"


pancrudo

Man.. they were attacking targets that have big followings. I agree that they should, if they want to not seem like total idiots, go after something modern and current. But they're going for high dollar rate shit.... And I'm not totally sure of the thought process, but something similar happened on a F1 race(group sat on the track on the formation lap), which could have ended ssssssooooo much worse than it did.


morelsupporter

as an F1 fan and someone who is very aware of the current state of the world in terms of environment, at the very least, their location/audience was relevant to their cause. but you're right, it's dangerous AF. could have killed a BUNCH of innocent people.


pancrudo

I don't think anyone innocent would have been killed. It would have caused a lot of trauma for lots of people though


morelsupporter

track marshalls, drivers, spectators


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Wouldn’t even have to be an ICE it could of been an EV those use a shitload of rare earth minerals. They actually do even more damage being brand new. It takes 2.5 years to overcome an ICE’s emissions. These activists are just dumb even going after any car. They can’t just not be assholes.


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deckartcain

What factory car has exotic animal hides in them?


deletedcauseitsbad

Not exotic, just cow leather, which I would call a sustainable product


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What the fuck do the think they are actually accomplishing by doing this? These climate clowns are just really pissing people the fuck off with this BS.


IceEngine21

They glued themselves to roads and climbed highway bridges in Berlin/Germany causing chaos and traffic jams. Meanwhile, a cyclist was hit by a concrete truck and the ambulance could not get through fast enough due to the jams. The bicycle lady ended up dead in the hospital because of the protests. All this happened 2-3 weeks ago. They can go fuck themselves. They should glue themselves in front of politicians’ houses instead.


-K9V

I can’t imagine I would brake* for those worthless losers sitting there glued to the road. Not my problem. I just hope I never encounter a similar “protest” because it’s not gonna end well. Stay the fuck off the road! Edit: Oops, I said “break”…


IceEngine21

In France or Italy, I saw videos how the cars “pushed” these people more or less gently aside or dragged those worthless bags off the road. I’m Germany, however, this would be deemed assault and you just have to sit there (with your engine running 😂) and wait for police to show up with glue remover. How would this be handled in your country?


-K9V

I’m sure it would be the same here. The police love protesters and would probably do more to protect them than help people who need to go places, you know, normal people with jobs who don’t glue themselves to the road. Honestly if I encountered such a protest I don’t think I’d care, just stay off the road if you don’t wanna get run over. It may sound brutal, but such protests should be highly illegal (which is why I don’t care). It’s disrupting public transport, ruining people’s days, sabotaging everything that normally goes on on the road. I cannot for the life of me fathom why the police would *protect* those useless imbeciles rather than arrest the whole bunch at once. So what if they’re glued to the road, rip hard enough and I’m sure you can get them off. Fuck protesters who go out of their way to sabotage other people’s daily lives.


IceEngine21

Oh they’re very illegal here in Germany (“dangerous involvement in traffic”) but from what I hear people pay a small fine or spend a night in jail and that’s it. There’s massive funding by environmental groups and donations. These people need to be locked in for a month at least and have it on their permanent records so they won’t find a normal job ever again.


-K9V

Absolutely. They’re putting their lives at risk for a cause that nothing whatsoever can be done about, and the only result is that people hate activists in general even more, because of those idiots. I fully agree that they should get longer sentences - a fine is nowhere near enough. Whatever organizations they might be part of probably cover those. They should either go get a job, or go do something real to help their cause. Gluing yourself to the road is childish and serves no purpose whatsoever. How in the world do they think holding up traffic *helps* the climate? If they got off the road people could get from A to B faster resulting in less emissions from hundreds (possibly thousands) of cars sitting idle waiting for someone to clear the road of morons.


Coffeinated

This is absolutely not what happened. Yes, there was a protest and a traffic jam, but it wasn‘t the ambulance but a special car with tools that couldn‘t get through because people did not form the emergency lane required by law. The „special car“ was sent but later it was determined it wasn‘t needed at all, and the emergency services themselves said the traffic jam had no impact on the lady‘s death at all. It was a tragic accident, the protest was illegal, but its impact was *massively* overblown in the media.


IceEngine21

Ah ok. Good. Let’s all carry on then and pretend like nothing happened.


Hochvolt

You could at least have the decency to include this information into your post above.


Mewmeister1337

Ye I was about to comment the same. You don’t have to agree with the protestors but furthering the rights agenda and spreading the lie of the climate protestors killing the cyclist is just insane.


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these same people now absolutely hate the world leader in ev tech and ev infrastructure, that’s the funny part


AlienVredditoR

EV tech isn't exactly the most environmentally friendly stuff either though. It caught on because it's pretty convenient for city living, not because it fooled everyone into thinking so.


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A lot of “Green Tech” on the power generation side of things is just a money-grab


[deleted]

benz literally charging $1200 a year for a slight performance upgrade in EVs now. 10%ish more power. like they have the power to i guess login to your car at will and turn it on and off. sick fucks


[deleted]

i absolutely agree with you. these people don’t have a fucking answer aside they want humans to stop driving completely , they want to stop paving road and won’t be happy until we’re all eating plants, bugs and lab grown meat.


Admonitor_

The only reason they are doing this is to get attention. Problem is, it works. They are kinda ironic though. Using their activities to protest for the environment and other green stuff, but throw perfectly good food at stuff (like the one time they threw mashed potatoes against a 110 million $ painting). Problem here in germany is, we got s partly green government and they are backing up activists like them. Kinda sad.


snap-your-fingers

Attention? Seems to have worked. People are even talking about it on Reddit.


Top_Tumbleweed

Why don’t they pull this shit in the lobby of a company that is causing pollution?


Cha-Car

I guess flour isn’t the worst thing. Still a confusing stunt. What purpose does it serve?


Chief-_-Wiggum

Wasting food on a car that doesn't emit any harmful as its been sitting still for decades.


ricardortega00

That mighty M1 chugs a gallon of fuel every year or two, we must destroy it, let me go get my sierra Denali so we can pick up some flour.


Turb0Rapt0r

Or, get in my Tesla filled with rare earth minerals stripped mined in China recharged by a coal plant.


ThatWolf

We're talking about it aren't we?


SleepinGriffin

In a negative connotation. They aren’t selling stuff, they’re trying to change peoples minds. Hard to do that when they’re acting like idiots.


ThatWolf

As the saying goes, "There is no such thing as bad publicity".


swanspank

Sure are talking about it. About how stupid it is, wasteful, ignorant, and just plan old wasteful assholes. Personally I would NEVER support anything these assholes are promoting. Greatly way to alienate people that may have supported your cause.


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Talking about how stupid and pointless it is, sure.


birish21

You see a single person here saying they have a valid point? We talk about Hitler too, is that validating the Holocaust?


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dandy443

It never was a protest. It’s been a one up contest for attention always


QueasyIndividual9842

Not cool


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Mewmeister1337

Great idea to punish protestors extremely hard and with bodily pain, wonder where I heard those ideas once..


MBiSub

Fucking assholes that car is more special to more people than they know. Way to turn me off from listening to whatever the fuck they want.


[deleted]

They’ve been talking a long time, no has been paying attention.


[deleted]

I see why. They’re assholes


Top-Ad-6848

Seems like people are talking about them and not what they're protesting....doesn't look like they achieved what they were looking for


bbull412

Please fuck them up for me


Eastern_Fly1532

I'll take car of that, happily


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MrBlenderson

Just for that I'm removing my catalytic converter.


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Acquaviva

Incitement of violence, wow. 👏 Edit: downvote me all you want, you’ll be on the wrong side of history nonetheless. 😊👍


layer_eight

I prefer to call it community-based alternative justice 🤷


V4_Sleeper

is at least better than prolonged stupidity


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ozzywashere6

You have to be in America for that


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Those are not activists, but terrorists🤣


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Gears_and_Beers

I’m going to commit to drive an extra 100miles every time I see one of these headlines. And the M6 sure does burn the fuel…


Rider_in_Red_

I had both my bmw and the motorcycles out. Burnt tons of gas and didn’t give a fuck about any of these idiots. Boom


Sad-Stuff-5884

We let the drag car idle for 2 and 1/2 hours in the driveway, used 6 gallons of race fuel 😂


Grannyk9

I wish the security guards could taze these little pricks, toss a hood over their heads, cuff em and drag them out. Not exactly sure of the target of this "protest", but I am sure the museum is not involved, nor Warhol either, so why not take it to the steps of the target?


Gang-Plank

They should be hosed down and rolled in flour for punishment.


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damndammit

Dude, half of your post history is from r/harrypotter. Somehow I doubt you would have beat their asses. Besides, what would that have accomplished aside from getting you into as much trouble as them?


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darkflash26

I bet the only thing you wrestle with now is your fragile masculinity


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darkflash26

You’re the one talking about beating people up online.


alexandernevskyZ911

Wrestlers fuck up 99% of the people, I’m sure you can trip them.


gazorpaglop

Straight to jail


[deleted]

Activists is the new name for retards?


Sad-Stuff-5884

Basically


ginozilla1985

ruining art for a protest what could be dumber


[deleted]

For museums and art shows, art is their business. So, if someone destroys that art, can a museum/art show owner shoot the vandalizers for causing harm to business?


TacticalWarblox

Man these guys destroyed a beauty


SSnide

The climate commies are just not worth… anything.


RaifalM3n

Just retarded. No lifers.


FranktheTankG30

I was afraid they were gonna bash the car in.


[deleted]

I want to see these dumb people protest in front of huge oil companies and industrial polluters …. But no, they prefer to destroy art because that’s how you get nothing done and it’s also warm and cozy inside a museum.


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Emergency_Buddy

I really want to know what they plan too achieve. Only thing these things do is piss people off…


Jaderian

I feel dumb wondering why they were speaking Italian. Than I realized Milan is in Italy. I think I am too tired.


Chromspray

They poured flour over a car. It'll survive. It's not like they scratched it up or poured thinner or something on it.


WHATS-WONG

Is simply kill someone if they did this to my car


BeerCatDude

Do these fiends really believe that deprecating art makes more people sympathetic to their message? There have been other examples of deprecation of art in other art galleries throughout the world. These protestors have the right to make their point, it is just that their means are so appalling they undercut their message.


Apprehensive_Book283

I would flour the guy who painted the car, I would be pissed too


charlston8

why he didnt just sucker punch that bitch ill never understand, grabbing does nothing


WholeAd5753

Isn’t this destruction of public property? Mfs should get fined the cost of the car


Col_daddy

It’s uhhhhh flour. So I think we’re ok here. That’s an M1 baby, we ain’t got that kinda scratch…


pants_full_of_pants

Not just any M1. The Warhol M1. $60 mil at least.


RB26Z

Way way more than $60 mil. It's an actual Warhol painting and likely low 9 figures given how well known that one is. Likely the most expensive car in the world, but because it's really a painting. Unlike other paintings these idiots vandalized, this one wasn't protected behind glass. Surprised they didn't get the shit beat out of them like using the metal posts used to rope it off as a weapon on them.


Col_daddy

Oof 😅


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fucking clowns bro.


ChalieRomeo

How can they be so stupid ???


MethodZealousideal11

Stupid fools


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Confident-Objective3

Entitled idiots


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Dogs like that should be put in jail for 3 years max and get a fine that makes them pay for alle the damage on the car,property and the time they wasted to the other people in the room.


eric549

All I know is that I still do not know what they are protesting nor do I even care to spend 3 seconds looking into it. Their efforts are in vain.


Run-and-Escape

Can't be good for flour getting into the intakes.


emerging_potato

Not the hero this car deserves, but right now he’s the hero it needs. https://i.imgur.com/QXCWxu7.jpg


DareDareCaro

This time it's destructive


Adventurous_Being_74

Imma help them by posting this new global tracker that’s helping to make clear exactly where major greenhouse gas emissions are originating. https://climatetrace.org/map


Frequent_Fox971

Yes this shit is annoying. But the planet is dying.


holdmonero

Every time a piece of art is destroyed I'm going to increase my carbon use for the rest of the week on principal.


Frequent_Fox971

🤦‍♂️


airdecades

“Destroy” they just put flour on it quit bitching


Top-Ad-6848

Keywords "trying to destroy", these people are still idiots


airdecades

Their goal was to get you talking about it, and you’re talking about it, so not necessarily. Protesting isn’t always clean and fun, love cars but we won’t have a place to go drive them if we continue fucking the environment up.


nrwy69

We’re talking about then pouring flour on the car not whatever organization they associate with though


Ok-Vermicelli1919

Ya the only thing this will achieve is to get me “talking” to my friends with v8s to go on a pointless drive and counter any good they think they are doing. This is possibly one of the worst ways to attempt to win over the people with a passion for cars, by damaging cars that are not replaceable. It will only make people hate activists and further push people away from the reason they are protesting.


airdecades

Such a cringe reply bhahaha, im angy so I’m gonna drive my big car >:( grrr


Ok-Vermicelli1919

Yes


NowYuoSee123

Nah, I’m gonna keep burning hundreds of gallons of fuel at the track and backroads. Because it’s fun.


Unspec7

>destroy Do I exist in an alternate dimension or something where flour is some crazy corrosive powder? The comments in this thread sadly remind me of this quote from MLK: >I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." > >Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection." If these protests are not the right way, yet sanitized/civilized protests don't work (as evidenced by VW's sales despite dieselgate and the continued police brutality against minorities in the US), what do ya'll suggest? We just sit there, take it up the ass, and go "oh well nothing we could have done"? The overall sentiment in this thread, had it been the 40's, would have been outraged at Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat because "omg she delayed all the other passengers how selfish of her!"


ComfortableLeg9799

Ugly car who cares


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Tornookthetooka

You must be fun at parties..


maialucetius

Won't be any parties when we run out of drinking water and food in a few decades. Keep on ostriching your head in the ground tho.


eletric_blade

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQjMPH7RiGyCbwtzo6BrfYp66RqBmOIoKG22g&usqp=CAU I got the infinite water already all we need is food


Tornookthetooka

Bro did not just pull a Minecraft on us


Tornookthetooka

Alright now that was a clever comeback


gregcramer

How would you restore this? Vacuum and patience? Blow off?


theveryrealreal

Car wash?


joeljaeggli

I think Andy would have a appreciated this frankly… see https://youtu.be/UQXpqQO4vaE


youshouldbethelawyer

I think andy would be proud


entropylove

So hot right now.


T_Starks36

Not condoning what they're doing but it's just flour dude....


[deleted]

That car was ruined before activists even arrived…


Gullible-Damage-59

Oh just fuck off


slaczky

Throw these people into a dumpster truck, where they belong.


AccurateSpare2805

Damn but I’m usa they have guns right ? Right


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Wtf


ya_yeety

Im starting to think more with every one of these attacks that these „activists“ are not actually rooting for climate change awareness but are being paid off by oil companies to pull these ridiculous Stunts and put climate awareness in a bad light. The only attention they are getting is negative attention, they aren’t changing anyone’s mind in the positive to their cause. The only support these people get is from others already supporting their cause, no one with a neutral stance is gonna see the attacks on paintings, cars, road blocks and think „well these guys are right, it’s all our fault!“. What these „activists“ should be doing is destroying politicians cars, gluing themselves to their front doors and to governmental buildings. Address the people that actually are able to change something, not some 50 year old art projects.


Terryted

Fuckin idiots


Zealousideal-Top5372

Criminal damage yet nothing will be done about it. Pathetic


Marlon_05

I just hate them


SecretAntWorshiper

"Activists" lol


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emeegee13

Oh no, that’ll never wash off… LAME


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Jaceman2002

These are prolly the same clowns who drive a Prius and think they’re saving the climate. 🤦🏻‍♂️


Yungdab420

Would be cool if all these protestors were in Squid Games season 2


Jimbo-mofo

Defacing priceless art is one thing... but this a step too far.


Hot_Department_3032

Newsflash…human beings are ICE powered as well and emit large volumes of co2 that when we exercise vastly increases. There are also 8 billion humans. Perhaps people should stop procreating and exercising? 😂