This is like shaming someone who was born with fetal alcohol syndrome. They’re making a useless, cruel spectacle at the end point of the thing they take issue with, not at the cause. Go chain yourself to a factory farm gate or protest at the homes of the millionaires and billionaires invested in those businesses. But I suppose that wouldn’t be as easy and you might get your clothes dirty.
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In Selfridges one of the individuals was assaulted by a member of the public.
Look, member of the public, I get that there’s something about that smug douchebag that just makes you want to punch him right in his ridiculous beard, but… just don’t. Partly because it’s not your milk, not your carpet, and not your problem, but mostly because violence is really not an appropriate response to petty vandalism or misguided activism.
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“Bother Mummy and Daddy with this? Unthinkable!”
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I mean, awareness, yes, we’re talking about it, but at the same time they’re making me less sympathetic to their cause.
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it would be epic if they poured milk on vegan cheese in error.
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I stopped being friends with a guy because he was utterly adamant about getting into the left hand lane and driving exactly the speed limit. He knows it’s not going to make people obey the limit but he had this utterly self-righteous streak to him about it and this passive aggressive, “hey, I’m just following the law and all the other 98% of commuters on Bay Area freeways just need to do it my way” line. And not only that, he’d totally randomly bring this up in conversations. He was doing to be an asshole and I finally decided to listen to the fact that he just liked being an asshole.
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Is this how one makes dank carpet? Will they be breaking into the safe and storing it there next?
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At approximately 11:35, 2 supporters of Animal Rebellion entered Fortnum & Mason at Piccadilly, took milk from the shelves, and emptied it over the floor of the shop. They then went to Selfridges on Oxford street at around 12:30, and did the same. In Selfridges one of the individuals was assaulted by a member of the public.
And according to Google Maps, they skipped Tesco, the convenience stores, and the local “regular” supermarkets over in Leicester Square. 
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Wow. What happened in his life that he has to assert control like that.
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The long association between hunting and aristocracy and the extensive cultural exchange during the British occupation of India might both contribute to a strong animal-rights movement in the UK
Hunt Saboteurs Association - Wikipedia
Veganism Statistics India In 2022 - How many vegans are there in India?
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I’d suspect troll armies of convincing useful idiots to do this, in order to make people skeptical of the importance of climate change.
What a bunch of useless wankers.
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He was, in part, someone who had a need to be pedantic in the same way people just need to quote Monty Python. Most folks grow out of each of those things. Not him. Unsure what the underlying issue was. Probably better that way.
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In Germany that would be illegal. The left lane is for overtaking. If you’re slower than the traffic on the right you have to move over.
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Apparently after Reunification there were a lot of horrible accidents of West Germans in their big-ass BMW 7-series or whatnot coming over a rise at 200 kph and right into the back of a Trabant parked in the left lane doing 80.
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I agree with the general sentiment on this thread, and the conclusion that this specific act probably does more harm to the wrong people than good for the right people. I do think a critique of disobedience strategy definitely has to say more than just “this will piss people off and inconvenience some folks, therefore it’s bad.” The same argument is made of bridge marches that block traffic, and occupations like OWS. There are obvious differences, but it’s worth being explicit about them.
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That was the milk joke I came here for! 
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That is the way it is in many states as well. If you aren’t passing people in the left, you shouldn’t be there.
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I’d be pissed because it’s a sin to waste food.
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The classic, perhaps mythical, phases of grief start with “denial,” “anger,” and then “bargaining”
Any campaign that employs civil disobedience or sabotage has to have a plan that persists all the way through the first two phases and gets their opponents into at least the “bargaining” zone
Until then, they don’t care if people are pissed off—the angrier the better, they’re drinking delicious carnivore tears, it’s all part of the plan 
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