Who cares? Israel has about as much standing to speak for jews as my local pastor has for speaking as the pope.

The living victims of the holocaust dont agree with you.

You aughta strip naked and live in the african grasslands, there, ape. Thats your native habitat too, and clearly theres no reason for you to no longer be suitable for it right?

It probably shouldnt go 100% directly to the hostages.

This article is talking about the current population squeeze, and how this has happened twice in the past. As in, 10,000+ years ago.

There is no new emminent threat to cheetahs. There are well funded global cheetah breeding programs that are successfully breeding cheetahs with their unique genetic restrictions in mind.

Professional ecologists are well underway toward repairing cheetah populations. They arent going to go extinct

They arent going extinct soon, not sure what youre on about

Pretty surprising to people who dont have great history schooling, which is most people on the planet

Yeah, I see why you dont like downvotes

Do you? Because your comment about formatting implies you dont.

If all I like about a car is its color and the seat upholstery I dont go and copy its engine.

Lemmy is a federated reddit clone dude, its not just the front page format

You might be right. If youre not bright enough to grok that Im not talking about you, mozz’s, literal biological grandmother, and if you need to re-ask questions I have explicitly answered twice now, I dont think you can ever understand what protests are in a conceptual sense, let alone why these specific protests happen.

Good luck not walking into doors before opening them bud

THE VAST MAJORITY DO. NOT. MATTER.

Read that sentence over and over until it sticks in your head. These protests Are. Not. For. Your. Racist. Grandmother. They are direct threats to the politicians who know better. They are direct threats to the people in power who are knowingly letting the climate worsen for profit. They are direct threats that say if they continue putting our lives at risk for money, we will burn down everything they own into ash that if we die we do so without making them richer.

You are gently tonguing and sucking turtle miches fucking balls with this bullshit rhetoric. You are getting him off in the worst way, because he knows climate change is real and does not care because IT MAKES HIM MONEY. He is in love with the fact that you think threatening him and his coffers “”“hUrTs ThE MoVeMeNt”“” because you are stopping anyone from actually holding him accountable.

Your racist grandmas opinion doesnt matter!! She isnt burning coal!! She isnt razing the amazon for cattle farming!! The people who store their expensive art in museums do!! These protests are not for your dumb as rocks grandma!! No one gives a shit what she thinks!!

These protests are reminders that we can do things that cost the people in power lots of money, because costing them money or killing them is all they care about, and we are polite enough to start with their wealth before their lives. End of story. Thats it.

Threatening art threatens their investments. Halting traffick shuts down their factories and offices. Its not for you! Its to cost them money, and then remind them that we will do worse, for longer, next time. Anything that would make their stock wobble makes them tremble. Anything that shuts down a city fucks every business in that city, and all those angry business owners turn to the politicians and cry “fix it daddy! Or Ill stop paying you under the table!”

THIS. ISNT. ABOUT. YOU. Its about hurting, directly, the people who cause these problems, in ways they cannot stop you from doing without killing you for it.

Choking out the sugar daddy money would be a massive swing for their budget that they could not afford. We give them a disgustingly disproportionate amount of aid money.

Nothing done has prolonged the current policies. You are either arguing in bad faith or from a position of complete ignorance of human history.

If you were turned away from fixing climate change because of this nonviolent protest, you were 1) never actually on the side of humanity, and 2) do not understand what protests are or have ever been.

We used to kill leaders who put our lives and our neighbors lives in jeapordy. They threaten us, and we kill them and replace them.

These protests are progressive steps towards that old method, to remind them that we used to kill them for poor leadership, we could choose to do so again, and that we will start by destroying their property and financial investments first. That if they wish to live, and if they wish to keep their wealth, they need to start leading properly and stop putting our lives in jeapordy.

The museum curators spoke out against this not because it harmed any movement, but because it risked costing them money. Thats it. Its a threat to cost them money if they dont listen to us.

This isnt about swaying your bigoted dipshit of a grandma. Its about reminding turtle boy mitch and his country club friends in congress that we will burn down his house if he keeps ignoring this issue. Because we have exhausted the non violent options, and are approaching the point of needing to use violence.

So, no, I dont give a shit that a painting wasnt even actually damaged. Because pretending to damage the painting is to remind those in power that the next time, we will not throw soup. We will throw bottles of kerosene with lit rags poking out.

And I am speaking as an ecologist. We have tried the advocacy. The people in power do not care. They need to be made to care.

The life of a painting is worth less than my life, bud

If you are hand wringing about a painting because someone tried to use it to stop the deaths of real himan beings, you dont give a shit about climate change. Shove that made up concern back up your ass where it came from.

Saying “we are dying, and we will threaten to damage non living artwork until you stop the thing killing us” is not hurting any cause in the eyes of rational thinking human beings.

You will not get me to care more about a painting that wasnt damaged just because the rich losers who own the museum dont like the negative press, and you cannot make me care more about warhols work more than human lives. (You also cant get me to care about andy the asshole anyway, but thats an opinion shared by any artist who studied him)

Seriously. You need therapy if this damaged “”“the cause”“” in your eyes. Because youre likely a sociopath.

Whenever I read comments like this, Im reminded of conversations with non americans, who dont understand why americans are so eagerly bloodthirsty and excited to try and kill their own neighbors for the smallest inconveniences.

I bet you threaten people in the mcdonalds line for taking too long to get their wallet out of their pocket, ey?

The art was behind glass, which the protestors knew beforehand, which was why they chose to throw paint on it.

It was completely undamaged, and only children and idiots think its a reason to not support a cause. Which of those 2 are you?

I see you flunked history class, odd thing to brag about

Some pull? The US is funding this war. Israel is getting so much in free money from your taxes it should make you sick to your stomach

The reddit design is that popularity is the end all determinant of quality content. If you didnt want that, you shouldnt be using a reddit clone.

Thats why there are subreddits, that you can make whenever you like. So you can make a little pocket for the people who agree with your content.

Obviously things get downvoted because people disagree with it, that is how it was designed to work. That is the function of this type of social media. The quality is inherently tied to if it is something the community agrees with.

This complaint makes genuinely no sense. People upvote things they agree with, and downvote what they dont. Acting like thats some big shock is insane. Acting like thats some evil hidden use of downvotes means you dont understand the website youre posting on.