• pumpupthejam@piefed.social
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    17 days ago

    That’s more like it.

    What about the local government who allows all this to happen? Maybe if put under pressure, or even voted out, locals could see some real change.

    But it’s easier to graffiti their own walls, and squirt tourists with water than to organize.

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      16 days ago

      You don’t think they try to organise too?

      Of course they do. It’s very much a hard battle though because the upper class who gets rich off tourism is staunchly against it.

      The graffiti and squirts happen because of a failure of the political system, not because affected people or whatever are too lazy or whatever to impact politics.

      Same thing with climate activism. It’s not happening instead of political efforts.