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Climate activists again target art, this time Botticelli’s ‘Birth of Venus’
PBS ^ | 2/14/24 | World

Posted on 02/15/2024 11:36:38 AM PST by DallasBiff

Two climate activists on Tuesday targeted Botticelli’s masterpiece “The Birth of Venus” hanging at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, attaching images of recent flood damage in the Tuscany region on the protective glass

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: art; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; lastgeneration; vandalism
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Another vandalism attack by leftists to great classic art.

It's weird they don't go after Van Gogh.

1 posted on 02/15/2024 11:36:38 AM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

To me, those pieces are not protected properly. They should be behind an end to end glass wall controlled electronically.


2 posted on 02/15/2024 11:39:07 AM PST by Sacajaweau (..)
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To: DallasBiff

Unless these idiots get the curb stomping of a life time this nonsense is never going to end.


3 posted on 02/15/2024 11:39:08 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: DallasBiff

Ought to be a capital offense. Line them up and shoot them. Or chop off some vandal hands.

These people who have zero talent and cannot create anything are destroying or seriously damaging the world’s most priceless art from the birth of Western Civilization. Destroy the vandals!


4 posted on 02/15/2024 11:39:34 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: DallasBiff

I’ve never figured out what they think they’re accomplishing by this kind of thing.

These people are just egotists and narcissists. They don’t really care about anything.


5 posted on 02/15/2024 11:41:41 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DallasBiff
It's weird they don't go after Van Gogh.

Um, they already have.

6 posted on 02/15/2024 11:42:06 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: DallasBiff

Should they be treated like the J6 prisoners?


7 posted on 02/15/2024 11:43:16 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Take care of them the old fashioned way.

Make it a world wide Super Bowl level event—and feed them to the lions in front of one hundred thousand screaming fans and live television coverage.

If anybody is stupid enough to go there after that repeat once a month.


8 posted on 02/15/2024 11:44:49 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: DallasBiff

On the sympathy scale,

wimpy woke Leftist terrorists on one side,

classic art and the achievements of Western civilization’s irreplaceable cultural artifacts on the other.

⚖️


9 posted on 02/15/2024 11:44:55 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: cgbg

Yes! Wasn’t there some precedent for feeding them to the lions only 150 miles south of Florence?


10 posted on 02/15/2024 11:50:43 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: Sacajaweau

They should be behind an end to end glass wall controlled electronically.


I agree, but it means the crazies have won. We cannot look at art the way the artist intended and how centuries of humans did, but rather from a distance behind a protective glass wall. The present day is great in many ways but our tolerance of misbehavior has ruined a lot.


11 posted on 02/15/2024 11:50:50 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: DallasBiff

Once again, they never go after modern art.


12 posted on 02/15/2024 11:53:02 AM PST by PGR88
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

” the world’s most priceless art from the birth of Western Civilization. Destroy the vandals!”

Birth of Venus has to be one of the 10 best paintings ever IMHO. Would be horrible should anything happen to it.
The model for Venus was Simonetta Vespucci (maybe barely 16 at the time of the painting). She was a relative of Amerigo Vespucci after whom the Americas are named.


13 posted on 02/15/2024 11:53:57 AM PST by nomorelurker
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To: DallasBiff
I think they have but I find it weird that the guards just apparently stand there watching and don't do a thing.

Apparently vandalism is cool.

14 posted on 02/15/2024 11:59:27 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: DallasBiff

Why haven’t they souped Slick Willie in the blue dress portrait?

I’ve yet to figure out how souping centuries old paintings has anything to do with the climate. They are wasting soup, their t-shirts wasted energy, them traveling to the grocery store and the museum uses energy, etc.


15 posted on 02/15/2024 12:07:22 PM PST by bgill
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To: DallasBiff; SaveFerris; PROCON; gundog

16 posted on 02/15/2024 12:15:18 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: nomorelurker

I would'nt be surprised if some leftist nutcase got through with a hammer and knocked his penis off, and declared david was trans.

17 posted on 02/15/2024 12:15:18 PM PST by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: PGR88

“they never go after modern art”

That is because they confuse it with a waste basket or a toilet.

Lol.


18 posted on 02/15/2024 12:18:13 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: DallasBiff

What do you expect from ignorant, attention grabbing, children with a serious sense of entitlement and without any respect to others?

Modern liberalism has given the losers, weaklings, perverts the arguments and umbrella/home to hide under and pretend they are good people, productive, even better than those actually producing. The modern liberal is the kid living at home and lecturing his father about how bad he is for working in the coal mine/plant, steel mill... What do you want to bet that most of those involved in these attacks have no real job?

The liberal movement of today has attracted often fat, dumb, slobs that lack any semblemnce of professionalism, self control, resepct, pride, courage or dicipline. Weak pathetic loosers that think they are AWESOME!


19 posted on 02/15/2024 12:20:48 PM PST by Red6
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To: DallasBiff

You know you just gave someone that idea, right?

You are funny, but today you have folks that really are that pathetic in their need for attention and purpose.


20 posted on 02/15/2024 12:23:11 PM PST by Red6
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