cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/1977881
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Banksy isn’t happy with Guess’ latest collaboration.
The legendary anonymous graffiti artist had a directive for his followers on Friday, encouraging them—possibly tongue in cheek, possibly not—to visit the Regent Street Guess store in London and steal the brand’s new collection that features his artwork.
“Attention all shoplifters. Please go to Guess on Regents Street. They’ve helped themselves to my artwork without asking, how can it be wrong for you to do the same to their clothes?”
If it's someone stealing food and basics then yeah, but if it's bored kids stealing fashion then they can fuck off. Don't use the excuse of "sticking it to the man" to justify bring a bellend.
What, some kids stealing those clothes, of which half that aren’t sold will be shipped directly to a landfill?
Yeah, we gotta step up our game protecting that shit
I'd probably just tell them to fuck off home if I was feeding particularly ballsy. Where do you live where the police are well-funded enough that they'd have time to deal with something as small-time and irrelevant as this?
Does he have an agent or somebody who can be contacted? Not justifying the shop from doing this but how would somebody seek his permission?
Who Banksy? because he has clearly given his permission in the form of a press release
So Banksy has gven his moral ascent to anyone stealing from that shop although obviously Banksy doesn't have the legal right to do that and you will still get in trouble if the police catch you but the police in the UK don't investigate shoplifting less than £200. Although they recently have been told to crack down on all shoplifting so that might change.
I definitely wouldn't get a Flipper Zero for the purposes of theft. Allegedly it is a legal device that can be re-programmed to disable security tags and open charging ports on Tesla vehicles, which is wrong.
Definitely do not purchase a Flipper Zero and utilize it for theft or disruption. Its purposes are to open garage doors.
You don't need to reprogram the Flipper Zero for Tesla charging ports. Just get the Sub-Ghz signal from the internet and store it on the Flipper.
I definitely never done it myself, of course.
His celebrity status depends on hyperbolic rhetoric like this. If he had handled it the way normal people do, through courts, he'd be damaging his mystique. The sheep that think he's the bee's knees slurp this bullshit up.
Banksy is a complete fucking poser, true, but also shoplifting is good.
This is horrifying. There’s no good reason to ever steal from a store, period.
Actually, stealing from a corporation is always good under all circumstances. Everything they have is obtained by theft.
That’s wrong, stealing from a business is never ok. Businesses are what give people jobs and money, and you think it’s ok to just go around taking even more from them? After everything they have done for you? The owner of this shop can probably barely afford to make ends meet. When you steal a Banksy shirt you’re basically stealing food from that business man’s many children. Just because you love Banksy shirts so much. Think about that.
Everything they have is from theft? Wrong, they buy that stuff from other countries like Bangladesh (where they are also creating jobs by the way).
Damn nice bit, I had to read 2 times before I decided it was a bit.
Important to understand that every instance of mugging, shoplifting etc combined is less than half of what's stolen by employers via wage theft. In addition, wage theft is virtually never punished with prison time, unlike shoplifting or larceny.
Shirts are not people, not animals, not priceless relics, just commodities. Direct your 'horror' at an actual evil that affects your fellow humans rather than a minor loss of revenue from stolen property.
You’re definitely confused. The number one type of theft is people stealing from shops and businesses. It happens all the time! Sometimes people come in a big group and run through the whole store stealing stuff just for the fun of it. You see it every day on the news.
Wage theft? I’ve never even heard of that on the news at all, it’s not happening every day like shop theft. But it is a problem. I have employees that I pay 8 hours of wages to and sometimes when I look at the security cams I see that they actually spent several hours sitting around chatting to each other instead of working so yes, it happens. But people stealing from the shop is still the worst kind of theft possible.
Horrifying? Really?
You live such a disgustingly sheltered life that someone stealing fancy clothing is horrifying??
Is it not copyright infringement?
Also I don't believe in either but will happily use both to fuck over rich corpo pigs from commercialising my work without permission or compensation.
Did he ever say anything else about it? You can get banksy prints and other stuff featuring his artwork everywhere and they never seemed much bothered about it, maybe he just dislikes Guess
Based. Shoplift everywhere else too, especially the supermarkets.
https://youtu.be/wqUJ0go5Pww
https://youtu.be/oNBOCejGiTU
No, but Elon Musk will promise to pay your legal fees then double back on it.
Very cooling looking forward to getting a ripped-off version of artwork with messages like "DAE Putin Gay?" And "It's a commentary on the police, innit?"
What a fucking idiot. He / she could have sued them if he felt aggrieved instead of encouraging people to commit crimes.
Yet companies stealing people's art and selling it for a profit doesn't seem to bother you.
You're more upset by shoplifting than by the unethical theft and exploitation of someone else's artistic work, so yes, you did say that.
You seem to be making things up again. 😥
I don't like people breaking the law, and I said I don't think it was a good idea to encourage law breaking. Where in that did you take it to understand that I support theft or exploitation of artwork?
You're still crying about people shoplifting yet you still haven't condemned the artwork theft. Reading between the lines and calling out your bullshit isn't "making things up," buddy.
When stealing someone's artwork is completely legal but fighting back against it by stealing from them is against the law, maybe "the law" is just a bunch of worthless bourgeoisie bullshit. Stealing from thieves is objectively cool. Die mad about it.
Are you an actual 14 year old? Jesus who hurt you this badly?
Ok here you go, I have no opposition to condemning artwork theft. It is wrong and should not happen. Happy? Oh shit where's your reading between the lines now?
At the same time encouraging others to break the law and steal is also wrong and a shit head move to do.
maybe "the law" is just a bunch of worthless bourgeoisie bullshit. Stealing from thieves is objectively cool.
Dios mío 🤣🥸
Are you an actual 14 year old? Jesus who hurt you this badly?
"Everyone who disagrees with me must be a child. There's no way anyone could possibly disagree with me about anything." Damn what an original, well-reasoned argument.
Ok here you go, I have no opposition to condemning artwork theft. It is wrong and should not happen.
Finally dragged out of you after two posts of you crying hard about something objectively less worse.
At the same time encouraging others to break the law and steal is also wrong and a shit head move to do.
At the same time only one of those things you shit your pants about.
Dios mío 🤣🥸
Take this bullshit back to reddit. Engage with the argument or fuck off.
I don't like people breaking the law
I do when it's directed at the bougie fucks. Not so much the other way around.
Breaking the law is actually cool and good. Ideally, I think people should break the law more often, not less often.
Because it existed as a community with 200k+ users on reddit until reddit banned it. Everything that gets pushed off reddit will find a home elsewhere, and as long as it's not hate it should be embraced for the growth of the platform, much like Piracy.
