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Scrubbing away Banksy's artwork has only made its message more powerful | The Standard
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This is the photo they buffed. Hmmmm.
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2025
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They just completed the piece.
What a cool way to think about it.
Here *it is finished then:
If you have to hide your face to do a job maybe you're doing the wrong job?
What if you have a job as a QA tester in a mask factory
PPE =/= hiding. Though I do enjoy the pedantic retort! Cheers to you.
Clown?
Kid Starver and David Fanny got the order from their sugar daddy, Sketanyahu. He threatened to stop giving them free arsenal tickets.
Like at least america's sold out for genocide not only cause of the lobbying campaigns but also the blackmail they almot certainly have on all of washington, so in a way, they're doing it out of both greed and fear of repercussions for some of the most damning and heinous acts imaginable, but Labour's selling out for a bunch of ARSENAL TICKETS and clothes, they're basically glorified whores at this point, and of all teams it's arsenal, the biggest bottlejobs on the face of the earth 💀
It was sprayed on the side of a Grade 1 listed building. Of course it was sprayed, it legally has to be.
The image could've depicted six-pack Starmer riding a T-rex out of a burning building saving 10 orphans, and it would still have been sprayed (not that Starmer had any input in the property management of the building)
Banksy isn't stupid. He purposely chose a location where it would be sprayed, and used staining paints for some parts of the composition for exactly this reason.