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Climate activists are convinced that human irresponsibility has led to catastrophic warming of the planet, to the extent that people are starving. But now they’ve hit on a solution: deface the world’s great artworks with soup. On Sunday, the Mona Lisa got the treatment, and I feel cooler already.
Two women with t-shirts reading “Riposte Alimentaire,” that is, Food Counterattack, entered the Louvre in Paris, made their way to the Mona Lisa, and yelled: “What is more important? Art or the right to healthy and sustainable food? Your agricultural system is sick. Our farmers are dying at work.”
BREAKING: Climate activists threw soup at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre Museum today. Employees responded by holding up curtains to block visitors from seeing.
These climate t*rr*rists need to be arrested and given long prison sentences. This needs to stop. pic.twitter.com/2sRi179Eih
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 28, 2024
This was a glimpse into the muddled mind of a leftist. The Mona Lisa has graced the world with its presence since the sixteenth century. When Leonardo da Vinci first painted it, he did not deny anyone the right to healthy and sustainable food by doing so. Nor does the renowned painting’s continued existence impoverish or starve anyone. And our agricultural system is indeed sick, not because of greedy capitalists heating up the planet, but because (for one thing) of socialist internationalists (like those of Riposte Alimentaire) who are forcing the closure of farms in Germany and the Netherlands, and destroying the livelihood of the farmers, in the name of climate action.
Nevertheless, despite their proclamation making no sense at all, they then proceeded to douse the protective glass that prevents terrorists like them from damaging the Mona Lisa with soup. And Riposte Alimentaire isn’t even alone in employing this lunatic tactic. Back in Oct. 2022, purple-haired climate doom fanatics from a group called Just Stop Oil threw tomato soup onto Vincent Van Gogh’s famed Sunflowers painting in the National Gallery in London, because it’s an oil painting. Really. That same month, activists hurled mashed potatoes at Claude Monet’s Haystacks in the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, before they glued their hands to the wall and settled in for a long day of climate hectoring, mythology, propaganda, and sloganeering. The Mosa Lisa has also been attacked before, by a nut who smeared its protective glass with cake in May 2022.
It’s an annoying and stupid form of protest. Couldn’t all this soup (and mashed potatoes, and cake) have gone to feed the starving people for which these leftists are supposedly agitating? In any case, there is going to be a lot more of it, and worse. One principal reason why this is so is that as this self-righteous and ignorant vandalism continues, authorities do little or nothing to stop it. In the Louvre on Sunday, all that museum security officials did was put black screens between the Riposte Alimentaire soup-throwers and the aghast museum visitors, who were then evacuated.
Authorities are likely hesitant to act because they are essentially just as far to the left as the climate protesters. Riposte Alimentaire demanded the integration of “food into the general social security system,” and an end to an economic system that “stigmatizes the most precarious and does not respect our fundamental right to food.” They want the French government to give citizens (and almost certainly non-citizens as well) $162 a month for food, with no strings attached. Whether you work or don’t work, whether you’re productive or not, no matter what, you’ll get $162 for food. Who will have to pay for this? Riposte Alimentaire was too busy throwing soup to explain that.
Despite their clear sympathy for the protesters, museums are likely to begin to institute more effective security measures. Then, however, the protesters are likely to up the ante as well. When they see that juvenile stunts in museums aren’t bringing the world back from the brink of the climate apocalypse they’ve been skillfully led to believe is on the horizon, they’re not going to stand down or reexamine their false premises. Instead, they’ll move from perpetrating what look to be harmless pranks against artistic masterpieces to actually destroying them. On the one hand, leftists are tearing down statues of military and political heroes because of racism and other deviations from their political line. And meanwhile, they’re also targeting non-political artistic masterpieces in order to issue their lunatic calls for the implementation of socialism, a political ideology that all too often has been spectacularly oppressive, and failed to bring economic justice.
Will the world’s artistic patrimony survive this madness relatively unscathed? We can hope.
How about throwing soup on that Obama Portrait how would liberals react?
The goal is to return the Earth to its “pristine” state prior to humans, even if it requires global warfare. And that new Garden of Eden is gonna be awesome, except for all the dead bodies laying around fouling the water supplies, amongst other nasty outcomes.
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Oil paints are made from vegetable oils and back in the day they would have used turpentine, also made from trees, for solvents. The Mona Lisa is over 500 years old and is an incredible testament to the durability of a well crafted paint
Modern waterbase paints are made from synthetic resins created by the petroleum industry.
So which is “greener” and more sustainable?
If the climate lunatics want to glue themselves to a wall or a floor why not throw paint on them and then seal them under plastic for a few days….and turn them into a gallery exhibit.
The next time some deluded activists do this and then super-glue themselves to the wall, evacuate the room, turn off the lights, leave a few gallons of water, lock the doors, leave them there for several days (a week?), and ignore the screams. Maybe it would dissuade others.
You would leave water for them? You’re incredibly kind.
Let me make sure I understand this. You believe climate change is causing starvation, so you waste soup? Further evidence we are living in a clown world.
Modern Enviromenalisms which started back in the 1700 by someone named Malthus it just took Racheal Carson and Paul Ehrlich to restart in back in the 1960’s then Al Gore to give a a boost in the 1990’s
Of the bunch, only Rachael Carson was a real scientist (and a real writer). But something in her seems to have snapped, perhaps a result of her developing cancer, and she wrote The Silent Spring, an eloquent, beautiful polemic against the use of chemical pesticides. So what if her brilliant book stopped the use of DDT and cost perhaps half a billion lives in the Equatorial belt? You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs, comrade!
Public education indoctrination. Thats where this comes from.
What annoys me is when the cops come with their chisels and hammers to free the retards that cemented themselves to the ground. I would leave them there and simply place a pylon next to them to warn other drivers. Let the perps call on their partners in crime to rescue them.
Why isn’t the painting behind some bulletproof glass?
Once again we witness the Useful Idiot Generation on Parade for all to see.