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Protesters in Barcelona have sprayed visitors with water as part of a demonstration against mass tourism.

Protesters in Barcelona have sprayed visitors with water as part of a demonstration against mass tourism.

Demonstrators marching through areas popular with tourists on Saturday chanted “tourists go home” and squirted them with water pistols, while others carried signs with slogans including “Barcelona is not for sale.”

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the city in the latest demonstration against mass tourism in Spain, which has seen similar actions in the Canary Islands and Mallorca recently, decrying the impact on living costs and quality of life for local people.

The demonstration was organised by a group of more than 100 local organizations, led by the Assemblea de Barris pel Decreixement Turístic (Neighborhood Assembly for Tourism Degrowth).

    • thoro@lemmy.mlEnglish
      22·
      5 months ago

      Yes a kid being bullied by their peers in a school with a bucket of water is the same as adult tourists in a foreign city being squirt as a protest against rampant overtourism. Why didn’t I see the overt similarities. It’s definitely more than just the use of water

      • stephen01king@lemmy.zipEnglish
        22·
        5 months ago

        See, I said you didn’t understand his point, and you’ve just proven it. He never directly compared those two acts, but in your stupidity, you can’t seem to see something that obvious.

        • thoro@lemmy.mlEnglish
          22·
          5 months ago

          The point is idiotic and ignores all context between the two acts. It literally does compare the two acts or it’s irrelevant to bring up. That’s what an analogy does.

          Except for dumb as shit Internet debater assholes who base their usernames on mid tier novelists, I guess.

          • stephen01king@lemmy.zipEnglish
            22·
            5 months ago

            Your point is idiotic, that’s why it’s easily countered by an analogy that is not relevant to the story. Maybe you should’ve countered him with a better point, instead of relying on overused talking points such as false equivalence to avoid thinking more logically. His point was only to show how stupid the point you brought up was, not to serve as an analogy to the real act.

            Not only are you unable to think logically, you even had to rely on mocking my username to try and win this argument. Why so desperate that you had to use such a classic Internet debater move? The projection is really just the icing on the cake.

            • thoro@lemmy.mlEnglish
              21·
              5 months ago

              No, you see:

              1. I was drunk when I replied because I do have a social life
              2. Mocking you wasn’t part of my argument. I made that in the first paragraph (about context and similarly). I just mocked you because I didn’t like you. As you know, Professor Logician, an insult being included in an argument doesn’t necessarily make the argument an ad hominem.

              The original user didn’t reply to my disagreement like a maladjusted prick, unlike you. So they got a civil disagreement back.

              Unlike them, I do hope you get “attacked” by a 5 year old with a water gun this summer. 🤓