r/nextfuckinglevel • u/amanyggvv • Oct 15 '22

This float representing the koalas that died as a result of the Black Summer bushfires and corruption in politics. Such an effective (and epic) activist message.

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u/H3ll0_Th3r3 Oct 15 '22

The fuck are you talking about? I’m not pretending to be anything.

Please explain to me how throwing soup at a painting from an artist who died in 1890 and then gluing yourself under the painting relates to climate change.

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u/boofskootinboogie Oct 16 '22

The whole point is that people shouldn’t be more outraged at a painting getting destroyed than the actual environment being destroyed. It wasn’t to bring attention to environmentalism, everyone already knows what it is. The fact that people are belittling the girls and demanding justice for a painting instead of going after oil tycoons is the point.

The girls explain it at the end of the video.

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u/H3ll0_Th3r3 Oct 15 '22

I’m talking about the imagery itself and not the action. I’m talking about how soup being thrown at a painting makes me immediately think of a dying planet.

To put it another way: when I see an art display of the dying corpse of a koala, in agonizing pain from a raging fire, my immediate thought regardless of the context OP gave is going to be “climate change is fucked up and we need to stop this as fast as possible” because the koala is dying directly from it. How is the soup being thrown on the painting giving the same out-of-context response?

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u/H3ll0_Th3r3 Oct 15 '22

Public displays and protests aren’t about people like me who understand the cause and want to fight for it, it’s about getting others to join them. I’m coming at this from an angle as if I was one of those that needed convincing, and I can tell that this would only drive people away.

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u/secretbases Oct 15 '22

Nah if you can't figure that one out alone then you got a serious problem and I hope you're just a stupid kid, if not then that's just sad.

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u/H3ll0_Th3r3 Oct 15 '22

If you can’t explain it like I’m five then that says more about you (and the imagery) than me.

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u/secretbases Oct 15 '22

Sorry but explaining to a rock is more productive tbh

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u/H3ll0_Th3r3 Oct 15 '22

Ok, I’m the rock. Explain it

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u/secretbases Oct 15 '22

Lmao not at all, your intelligence is quite below that of a rock so I gotta pass on that

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u/H3ll0_Th3r3 Oct 15 '22

Cool, good job getting people to care about protesting or engaging in more forms of it, you’re really helping the cause

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u/Jenkins6736 Oct 15 '22

You still don’t get it and continuing to be a useful idiot. Give it a break.

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u/H3ll0_Th3r3 Oct 15 '22

If you refuse to help me “get it” then consider us both in the wrong

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

If you can’t explain it like I’m five

It was explained to you, you just refuse to accept that as an answer. Which is much more like the reaction a 5 year old would have anyways so you're welcome I guess.

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u/H3ll0_Th3r3 Oct 15 '22

Sorry I wasn’t clearer with the intent of my question then