| ▲ | ncr100 11 hours ago |
| Graffiti is amazing. It is protest. |
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| ▲ | creaturemachine 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's counter-culture and I'm here for it. I had a fun convo with my daughter about why rail cars are so frequently tagged. More fascinating are the hidden pieces in tunnels and the like, where only few people will ever see it. |
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| ▲ | vider 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I wish people would stop protesting in the elevator in my apartment building. |
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| ▲ | fmobus 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| No, it's literally tagging territory. They literally call it tagging. |
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| ▲ | folkrav 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | "They" call tags tags, and graffiti, graffiti. | | |
| ▲ | iamnothere 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not really, graffiti artists often think that taggers are annoying (they are low effort and frequently tag over murals). Those who see it as art try to distinguish graffiti from vandalism. Artists often start as taggers so it’s not exactly a clean separation. It’s a similar relationship as the one between “real” hackers and skids. |
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| ▲ | micromacrofoot 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | there's a good amount of nuance and a lot of variety so broad claims like this don't really hold up |
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| ▲ | budman1 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| some of it. most is vandalism. |
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| ▲ | oklahomasports 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| No way people think graffiti is still fresh and cool in 2026 |
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| ▲ | GlacierFox 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Could I come and spray paint the front of your house? In protest of course. |
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| ▲ | harimau777 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | What are you protesting? Why are you targeting an individual's residence rather than a corporation's property? What is the artist merit of your graffiti? How does damaging someone's house help your cause? Is the gain from damaging someone's house sufficient to justify the cost to them? In other words, you are trying to make things much more simplistic than they actually are. | |
| ▲ | benenrjdnz 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | If your name is banksy, because a new banksy appearing in front of my house would increase the value of the entire block. | |
| ▲ | techblueberry 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I mean, if you get consent, it makes the argument irrelevant doesn’t it? | |
| ▲ | pmdr 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | As long as it's a mostly peaceful prostest, you're also allowed to set a few cars on fire and loot local businesses. | | |
| ▲ | ceejayoz 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | As long as you say "I feared for my life", you're apparently also allowed to shoot random civilians if you're a cop. Which is kinda why people are upset enough to set shit on fire. | | |
| ▲ | pmdr 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | I was merely hinting at protests being called peaceful by the media when they clearly weren't. Not saying they weren't justifiably so. | | |
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| ▲ | kg 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | When I put the two sides on the scale - the things being protested and the damage done by protesters - typically it's very easy for me to write off a couple burned cars or broken windows, even if I'm not a fan of broken windows or burned cars. Because typically these protests in the US are over things like reckless killings. | | |
| ▲ | budman1 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | All of the US protests in the last 10 years have been mild. Sure a couple of Waymos get burned up, but they are easy to capture :) Get all those folks marching, you aren't going to get good decisions out of everyone. But the expression of the people is hard for those in power to ignore. |
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