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This isn't apeshit... Apeshit is wanton destruction. This is a calculated protest using red paint and thought-out messaging.
Also, why do we care about defacing a building when the same action has meaningfully called attention to complicit US media? NYC is cleanable; dead children in Gaza are non-recoverable.
The pearl-clutching over some relatively minor vandalism in response to the mass murder of tens of thousands of civilians is really out of touch.
Since people seem so fucking concerned about property damage, maybe we need to start discussing the "vandalism" of all the homes and other buildings in Gaza. Actually, I'm not even sure I would be comfortable doing that ironically as it would feel very disrespectful to the human victims.