2 Charged After Pouring Red Powder Over Case Holding U.S. Constitution | Two activists poured the powder over the protective case to call attention to climate change
The Constitution was not damaged, according to the National Archives Museum, which said that the powder was found to be a combination of pigment and cornstarch.
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Interesting they’d use powder, a way more suspicious substance than paint.
How the fuck did it cost $50,000 to clean up though? Get a goddamn vacuum, some paper towel, a mop. Fifty goddamn thousand?
Hazard pay for all involved too. Emotional distress and all. You never know what these tree hugging terrorists will do. I keep Tom Clancy Rainbow Six on my nightstand.
Yeah, I don’t think that the employees who cleaned it up got even a quarter of the money.
I love that book. Hey, Olympics this year, and close to Hereford…
I manufacture the highest grade of hazmat suit material there is. $1600 will get you an XXL suit. I couldn't come up with a way to make this cost more than say $4k-5k.
slap on a respirator and gloves for an extra $200, still not 50k
very intersting
Private crime scene clean up crew. Need to scrub the brain matter off the ceiling before it soaks in and makes the next tenants uncomfortable. That'll be $2700. Oh we need to vacuum up a bunch of dust, but in a super special location? The government funded federal cleaning crew will have that vacuumed up with 2 wipe downs for only $50k.
Would be hilarious if, while the people are getting arrested and the fancy cleaning crew is being called and all, Bob the Janitor came by, mopped it up, and went on with his day without giving it much more thought.
Nobody will change. I appreciate the spirit of these protesters, but people have been warning about this stuff since the 80s. Humans have the built in ability to think they will survive and prosper, while everyone else falls away. We saw this on full display when wearing a mask to protect, even superficial or not, your fellow human being became a contentious issue.
It's just all so disheartening. I could just doom dump a bunch right now.
We've been getting change; when the Democrats had a razor-thin majority in both houses of congress last session, we got meaningful climate legislation
A bunch of regulation has been layered on top of it to try and get additional emissions cuts.
It's not enough yet, but the operative word is yet. Put a bunch more Democrats into positions of power, and the US may actually do its part.
Great, so the US is going to marginally cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, this is a global problem, and globally, we achieved record emissions this year.
The US isn't the only country to cut emissions during that time; the EU has done something similar, putting itself on a path towards zero emissions.
China is also on the cusp of a switch from rising emissions to falling ones.
Get those big three economies on the right path, and the easy default choice for the rest of the world will be decarbonization too.
The US is one of the largest emitters though as third highest population globally, one of the most heavily developed, and one of the most dépendant on wasteful technologies like automobiles.
Marginal cuts to their emissions is worth more than a small nation going completely green. Both should happen mind you, but take wins wherever you can
No, the Republicans controlled Congress for most of that time, or it was divided:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_(1856%E2%80%93present)
You do know how the American government works, right?
That instance you're looking for is called Twitter — you'd probably fit right in.
Since a few decades before that actually.
https://feddit.de/post/9186385
We should draw more attention to the fact that the Constitution is absolutely butchered by the people responsible for implementing it. They're doing far worse than corn starch. Let's charge them. It's best if we do it without their say so or using their means.
Possibly for the same reason(s) you haven't
Speaking of the Constitution, barring someone from an entire CITY seems to be rather outside of the spirit of the document itself.
We're gonna
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pour red powder over the Declaration of Independence!
Good thing all these paintings and historical documents are in well protected cases.