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They did say what works and what doesn't. Attack private jets and block oil refineries, don't spray paint Stonehenge or paintings. It's not hard to figure out what's going to be popular and what isn't.
NOBODY SPRAYPAINTED STONEHENGE
they threw corn starch on it. Corn starch.
actually loads of people do spraypaint stone henge, but JSO didn't.
Yeah, people don't care that it washes off easily, they don't hear about that part, the point is that those actions aren't popular, painting/blocking private jets is, so just do more of that instead?
How many times have your heard about them painting private jets in the news?
There's that one time they did it, also the time they breached the private jetway in Schiphol and cycled around. Not sure if it happened more times.
Did you know about this before searching it out? Their other activities?
How many articles did it get in major papers approx? How many days reporting?
I didn't search it out, that's what I remember from it being reported on at the time, ie. the thing you asked me about.
Hardly anyone supports painting/blocking private jets. Remember, nearly everyone believes they're just temporarily embarassed millionaires.
Nobody hears about them shutting down oil factories, attention getting stuff is why those are talked about.
They never do any actual harm either, like Stonehenge was cornstarch, it'll all be gone the next time it rains. They paint the glass in front of paintings, not the paintings themselves.
Defacing art is a historical form of protest. The Suffragettes vandalized multiple paintings which are now memorialized for it.
https://womensarttours.com/slashing-venus-suffragettes-and-vandalism/