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“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,” said the restaurant manager. He explained the majority of the people complaining about the artwork are against high levels of immigration and believe the artwork is an attempt to humanise small boat crossings because the people walking across the water have Christmas hats on

So these people not only think, somehow, that this slop is somehow depicting immigrants because Facebook melted their brains and they're literally seeing red, but they also think it would be wrong to humanize refugees and that's why it's being torn down.

If this article is true (I don't trust substack and the article only seems to reference itself), this not only illustrates how absolutely mentally gone the elderly are and how absolutely psycho and beyond reasoning or any type of conversation they are , but also the vast, vast rift between what IRL populations (people on Facebook groups and X) care about and what online people (Reddit, Lemmy, BlueSky, masto) care about.

(and yes let's be honest - this is that 50+ cohort that will vote Reform even though Greens lead with literally every other age group and everyone below the age of 49 and yes the people above 50 outnumber everyone below)