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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Is it? It didn't look like they actually did anything but make a mess and maybe dent a few things.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Yup, looks like activism to me. Effectiveness not being the metric measured.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Industrial shit is really resilient. If they wanted to accomplish actually doing damage they’d have used explosives, but that’s a whole next level of charges if/when they get caught… and that wouldn’t really do much additional good because the company probably has insurance to cover the damage anyway.

This is a visibility thing. The public blowing off steam, such as it were, while building awareness of how prevalent things are.

This is throwing soup at a work of art behind glass. But more direct.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

You're right, the damage is probably negligible but there's social effect of this action. It may encourage others to do the same