Mona Lisa splattered in soup at Louvre Museum in Paris by food protesters (www.businessinsider.com)

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[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 117 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Corrected title: Glass in front of Mona Lisa splattered in soup at Louvre Museum in Paris by food protesters

This happens so often it's kinda like a publicity button protestors can push for headlines.

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 13 points 9 months ago

You lost your job? Your wife an away with the post man? You are just grumpy?

Go splash the Mona Lisa's glass and all your troubles go away!

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Won't fix it but a bunch of people will now know, so I guess that's something?

[-] Harpsist@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Is France still revolting and on fire? I havn't heard much about them since that other platform we came from went down the shitter.

[-] MrCookieRespect@reddthat.com -3 points 9 months ago

From what i know the original mona lisa isn't even behind that glas... Still fucking idiotic to do that and that media makes a fuss about it.

[-] cloudless@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago

So where is the original Mona Lisa?

[-] MrCookieRespect@reddthat.com -1 points 9 months ago

Likely in a storage room in a Vault... Its way to much of a risk to not store the original somewhere else.

[-] cloudless@feddit.uk 8 points 9 months ago

Is there any evidence to support your claim?

[-] stockRot@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Source: dude just trust them

[-] MrCookieRespect@reddthat.com -2 points 9 months ago

Basically that most museums do that.

[-] cloudless@feddit.uk 9 points 9 months ago

So, "trust me bro"?

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 38 points 9 months ago

Oh no, now they gotta wash the protective window again.

[-] gapbetweenus@feddit.de 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I see it becoming a tradition. When people are upset with something they throw soup at mona lisa. There will be an extra line just for this activity und windshield washer will be installed. Museum can even make some money by selling soup.

[-] espentan@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

Yeah, take that Leonardo, that's what you get for your plight against sustainable agriculture! /s

[-] Hubi@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

Wait till you find out what kind of paint Leonardo used. That bastard.

[-] xor@infosec.pub -3 points 9 months ago

well, im glad that they solved their problem and agriculture will be sustainable and good and everything now

[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 13 points 9 months ago

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[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 11 points 9 months ago

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

Is it time to cancel this DaVinci guy?

[-] ugjka@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

let's cancel all history and restart afresh

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Funny enough the GOP claims to be against cancel culture but simultaneously manages to completely ignore all relevant historical happenings as if we were starting off fresh.

[-] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece was left covered in what appeared to be tomato soup while the protesters made a speech about sustainable agriculture and the food supply chain.

Videos on social media show the activists wearing T-shirts with the words "Food Counterattack" written on them in French.

French farmers have been protesting and threatening roadblocks around Paris this month, demanding better pay and living conditions, Reuters reported.

The Mona Lisa has been the target of a number of protests and acts of vandalism over the years and has been protected by bulletproof glass since the 1950s after one person threw acid at it.

In 2009, a "disgruntled Russian woman" who had been denied French citizenship also threw a ceramic mug at the painting, per Harper's Bazaar.

In 2022, anti-oil protesters targeted the UK's National Gallery, throwing a can of tomato soup onto one of Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" paintings.

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[-] anzo@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

Most people is wrong, the issue here isn't Climate crisis or Da Vinci being a sexist. It was just a bad soup, too bland.

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

tin of SOUP

[+] MrCookieRespect@reddthat.com -11 points 9 months ago

Because this kind of protest does anything except getting hate on you... 🤡

[-] PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 9 months ago

No. Just people who dont want to think about the consequences of a climate crisis feel the urge to hate such people

Every reasonable human relates with the message they send.

There is a word for the former.... right. Ignorant.

[-] HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip 9 points 9 months ago

I fully agree we should be doing a lot more against climate change. The whole world should be.

That said these kind of protesters always look like clowns to me. Especially when their 'protest' is just to inconvenience the general public by blocking roads or pouring coloured liquid on something. You're not solving anything just being a cunt.

You can still dislike these people if you don't think they are making a difference. If they are not achieving results, these actions are just a detriment for everyone.

[-] max@feddit.nl 9 points 9 months ago

The “normal” forms of protest just don’t cut it anymore. When is the last time you’ve heard about one, let alone seen one? It’s a (relatively) harmless shout for attention for a very dire problem.

[-] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

the german farmers did a "normal" protest (with roadblocks and running over police officers) and instantly got the politicians to act in their favor.

[-] max@feddit.nl 2 points 9 months ago

Sounds like the Dutch and Germans aren’t that different after all. Ours also ran over stuff with their tractors, blocked highways, rammed the main entrance of a city hall, and did some casual intimidation at a politician’s home address. Peaceful folk they are.

[-] PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 months ago

This inconvenience can have a strong force if you piss enough people off. The other option would be ecoterrorism e.g. destroy the next refinery. Well nobody would get the message because the media would frame it as terrorism.

There are so many political decisions not done properly because the majority of people still doesnt care.

Everybody said that greta thunberg is a cunt the way shes used/doing her stuff.

Well few years later the topic is much more within common media than before. This is a success although she got the hate.

And one comment

fully agree we should be doing a lot more against climate change. The whole world should be

If you say that. Do you mean it?

What would you do to do more against climate crisis? And dont come with personal things. Those are helping nobody as far as your own inconveniences.

Everything which targets more than a single person is required.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 9 months ago

If you say that. Do you mean it?

They aren't quite there yet. They've gone from "someone should do something" to "we should do something".

They still have to get through "I should do something" and "this is what I'm doing"

[-] PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago

Thats very well said.

[-] CAVOK@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I am doing something. I still feel like I've brought a broom to an earthquake.

If my country stopped using fossils today. I mean not using any at all ever again, that reduction would be wiped out by the increase in China in less than two weeks.

And this is not to criticise China. We have a much higher standard of living, so I fully expect them to want to catch up.

[-] voodoocode@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

They don't even directly reference climate, but

What's the most important thing?" they shouted. "Art, or right to a healthy and sustainable food?"

They added: "Our farming system is sick. Our farmers are dying at work."

French farmers have been protesting and threatening roadblocks around Paris this month, demanding better pay and living conditions, Reuters reported.

[-] MrCookieRespect@reddthat.com 0 points 9 months ago

They send the message that they waste food and make themselves look like clowns nobody relates to them.

The message they want to give doesn't get any audience by that.

[-] PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago

If you really care about food waste inform yourself what the western world daily business does.

Again this argument is just a framing to disagree with those people.

Youve ever heard of ecoterrorism? Would this message come through if e.g. applied to gas pipelines?

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