AJAB (All Judges Are Bastards) TWO YEARS in prison for throwing soup at a painting that's behind glass.

This is another example that makes me skeptical of any spectacular activism. The state is more than happy to severely punish people for the minutest of actions, all while having control over mass media, so you have to be careful that you aren't throwing your life away for zero impact. And at least in the US, it's spent the last few decades growing and perfecting the jail and prison system to the degree that it can absorb a large amount of social unrest without any trouble.

Very rarely is attention-seeking praxis capable of breaking into the spectacle a la Aaron Bushnell.

Radicalism needs to be socially reproducible to have revolutionary potential, needs to outcompete capitalism's social reproduction. We need to create revolutionaries faster than they get imprisoned, killed, burnt out, isolated.

Just like the West doesn't have real heroes, it can't have effective martyrs.

The piece of glass that they knew was there and knew would stop the soup, which it did??

There is nothing priceless about any piece of art ever. Placing a living person's time and life below a simple image is the most egregious fetishism I have seen in a while.

Vincent Van Gogh only sold a single painting while he was alive. His paintings were considered worthless garbage at the time. Fine art is and always has been a way for the rich to launder money.

So according to this judge Earth = not priceless

You two simply had no right to do what you did to Sunflowers, and your arrogance in thinking otherwise deserves the strongest condemnation.

WHAT YOU DID TO SUNFLOWERS for being an allegedly serious crime, they phrased their condemnation in the silliest way they could

Protecting the artwork on the Titanic is my new metaphor for how stupid this is.

I'm a big fan of art, but uncritical support for an endless flow of soup at valuable items until rich people stop killing all of us.

These protestors aren't even doing terrorism yet and they treat them like trash

It's just impossible to clean an oil painting covered with water soluble soup

And the price of the painting went up by a few millions for the added notoriety

Who the fuck designed the glass pane so that it didn't cover the frame?

On March 30th , 1987, at Christie's London, Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh sold for £24.75 million

Not so priceless after all.

Also, if the pane of glass is so potentially vulnerable, why is no one telling the museum that it needs to beef up security?

That plane of glass has never done more work than in this sentence. The glass did its job and the painting is fine.

By this logic if you shoot at someone and they're behind thick bullet proof glass you've legally murdered them

Keep doing this to your climate activists and soon enough their sentences won't even be able to be completed because the prisons will be underwater.

THEY DID DAMAGE TO THE FRAME

I've seen the video. 10k in damage to the frame is absurd. If someone simply cleaned the soup within an hour or two of them throwing soup on it then it was as good as new. If they left it to soak in for 24 hours and damage the wood then that's negligence on the museum's part.

Why are they putting $10k frames on soup throwing range

Didn't the UK arrest some activists before they did anything a while back? Sink that hellhole already.

Meanwhile, an entire US state is basically floating away from record-shattering hurricane storm surge.