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Activists spray red paint over billionaire Walmart heiress's superyacht for a second time

www.cnn.com Activists spray red paint over billionaire Walmart heiress's superyacht for a second time | CNN

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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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.
- 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.
- 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
  
  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?
  
  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

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