re: #114 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

It’s nice to imagine that it took some nefarious outside influence to make activists on “our” side do something like this, but we have them here too (Berkeley is a magnet for people like this) and I have no trouble believing they thought it up their own selves.

As to whether they knew about the glass, I heard an interview with another member of that group, who said they did it to get attention. Damaging the painting would have gotten them the wrong sort. (Also, this isn’t their first action, and they were non-destructive then, too.)

Its a throwback to 80s “in their face” style protest, Act Up, the Ruckus Society, “Act Now, Apologize Later etc. The only real effect was to harden resistance and give conservative schemers a rallying point against lefty excess.
There was a turning point when Greenpeace sent its adventure sport strike force to disrupt the Petroleum Exchange in London. This same group had recently vandalized a NATO missile facility and beaten the shit out of two British police guards. The oil traders, though, fought back and pushed the Greenpeacers off the floor and back onto the street. It got worldwide coverage and people everywhere , including many environmentalists, cheered.
We see the fallout today since Repug propagandists obviously invoke the vague memory of those tactics when they characterize BLM and Antifa as arrogant, disruptive, privileged authoritarians trying to force their will on normal folk.