• @[email protected]
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    103 months ago

    If that’s the interpretation you walk away with, you may be beyond repair.

    Spray foam is cheap. Dirt cheap. The idea that it can be used in interesting ways; I’ll take it.

    • @[email protected]
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      123 months ago

      They literally found the people who did it, and found the trail of evidence that led to the Russians, and the explanation for why they didn’t want the Greens in power.

      • Nougat
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        123 months ago

        I think what they’re saying is “I may not agree with why they did it where they did, but I can imagine reasons and places where the tactic would be a good thing.”

        • @[email protected]
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          43 months ago

          Why would a tactic that’s deliberately designed by successful professionals to depress support for environmental causes, for pretty obvious reasons if you take a look at it, be a good thing to employ?

          • Nougat
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            93 months ago

            The tactic disables vehicles. If a vehicle needs to be disabled, and expanding foam is handy, Bob’s your uncle.

            • @[email protected]
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              43 months ago

              No it doesn’t. This tactic disables vehicles for a few minutes, until someone fixes it, and is likely to produce a permanent opposition in the person whose vehicle was minorly vandalized to anything activist or environmental.

              Green Party people getting elected, and then enacting policies which curb emissions or reduce dependence on ICE vehicles, disables vehicles.

              Of course, if you were talking about some other kind of activism which is designed to more permanently disable certain vehicle for certain specific reasons, there are a lot more semi-permanent ways of doing it than this. This is tailor-made to be useless and annoying, which is why the Russians liked it so much, and made sure to leave a card by the Greens taking credit for it.

              • Nougat
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                13 months ago

                Yeah, pair of diagonal cutters on valve stems is definitely more immediately effective. And it does look like the vehicle would still start if there’s any kind of exhaust leak.

                But if your aim is to annoy, this is a less destructive way of doing that.

        • Elrecoal19_0OP
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          53 months ago

          idk, I can’t think of any use apart from “giving enviromentalists a bad image”, except for it being a minor inconvenience. Salt in the fuel is way more inconvenient :)

          • Nougat
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            43 months ago

            Nobody said you have to pin it on environmentalists.

            • Elrecoal19_0OP
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              No, but there aren’t many people that could serve as scapegoats for messing with combustion cars as easily as them

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          I’m truly fascinated to find someone out here saying, “Nothing to see here! Please disperse.”

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      3 months ago

      Honestly looking at Russian espionage and interference techniques seems like a good starting point for any citizens who want to oppose their government’s actions. Anti-Trump Americans might want to take notes.