To me, placing stickers on gas pumps is vandalizing private property.
Even though it is to a much lesser degree, I see it as much the same manner as BLM destroying private property over George Floyd.
I am sure those of you with situational ethics can defend putting the stickers up. But you will never get me to agree with it.
Vandalism is actually defined by law in the various states; I'm not sure that applying a non-marring piece of paper to a gasoline pump quite fits (certainly less so than spray-paint graffiti or "tagging"). Similarly, I find it a stretch to compare a person with a sheet of self-adhesive stickers bought on Amazon with organized looters, arsonists and other rioters. But that's just me.
The real elephant in the room is freedom of speech and specifically, political discourse. When one side of any issue is subjected to shadow-bans, closure of social media accounts, routine harassment at the hands of "moderators", ad nauseam... well, that expression is going to find an outlet somewhere beyond the reach of the media and the tech lords. Where is it likely to be visible? Why, at public gathering places... like fuel retailers. And yet they have the gall to act all righteously indignant about the unintended consequences that they set in motion.
If we continue on this path, the day may come when BP execs and the rest of the faux outrage crowd will fondly recall the days when we only used paper stickers to communicate our displeasure.
“Even though it is to a much lesser degree, I see it as much the same manner as BLM destroying private property over George Floyd.”
Yeah, putting a humorous sticker on a gas pump or burning the the gas station down are almost the same thing./sarc
A sticker equated with burned businesses… um. Vandalism is property destruction and defacement. Stickers are what you get in first grade. So I am thinking power magnets would be great. Big oil fined this owner.
This is nothing other than COVID 2.0 crisis. Cause it, use it.. and bonus.. replace Putin with a globalist. We are going to love that puppet with all of those resources.
I bet you’re a Pierre DeFlecto supporter too. Vandalism…please. If anything it’s one of the mildest forms of protest.
“I am sure those of you with situational ethics can defend putting the stickers up. But you will never get me to agree with it.”
One side fights with every means at their disposal.
The other side carefully plays by the rules of the game.
Who wins?
If you like losing, keep obeying the rules!
I don’t view it as vandalizing because it does no permanent damage on or interfere with the function of the gas pumps. I confess to not knowing the actual legal definition of vandalizing, however.