A daring robbery of the Louvre is distinctive, entertaining and can even be funny. It's also wrong and the people who did it should go to jail.
Both of these things can be true at the same time. You don't have to pick one over the other.
Me, whistling, as I saunter casually out of the Louvre with Gericault's 'Raft of the Medusa' under my jacket
reading that the password at the louvre was “louvre” made the IT guy for MoMA run to change their password, because it was also “louvre”
I don’t see what’s so “funny” about planning a museum heist in the newspaper but let me tell you Hasan Piker… if any paintings or precious diamonds go missing from the Louvre this weekend may god have mercy on your soul
Self-serious shitlibs clutching pearls and pretending like they weren't cheering at the successfully Louvre heist last year are so tedious. This is funny. Of course I want to see more people doing Lupin III-ass crimes.
the thing about both Luigi and robbing the Louvre is people just want to see something high stakes done well with an appropriate amount of planning, dedication, forethought, and professional execution
This piece is an extended bit surgically designed to be Bluesky bait, & it worked.
Watch the video! Piker’s just shooting the shit about the Louvre heist, but publishing it as Opinion changes the context considerably.
Rest assured, anyone who could be convinced to “microloot” doesn’t read the NYT
everyone was making jokes and laughing about that louvre robbery.
now apparently it's bad to say that it was funny.
idk anything about hasan piker. i don't care.
i do think bluesky is being incredibly bluesky about him saying 'yeah robbing the louvre was more entertaining than a crypto scam' tho and you all need a serious detox.
like the nytimes has framed that shit as bait and you all fell for it.
this is dumb bullshit to put in The Times but objectively speaking we absolutely do go wild for a good heist on the internet, everyone had a field day with the louvre thing for weeks
If I am being interviewed, and I am asked the dumbshit question if I would steal from the Louvre, I would simply say “yeah, sure“ even if I wouldn’t because that’s the answer that question deserves.
The louvre heist was whimsical. If you’re getting mad about somebody saying that then you’re no different from the hyperventilating weirdos who thought the smith-rock slap was some big societal tragedy
Posting this headline makes it seem like this is a serious opinion piece or something, but no it's just a transcript of a fairly fluff-y podcast where Spiegelman is asking her two guests questions like "do you pirate music" (yes) or "would you steal from the louvre" (also yes)
The Louvre is a public institution. Admission is free for EU residents under 26, children from anywhere, unemployed people, and on certain days everyone. There is no sense in which robbing it is “stealing from the rich.”
The Louvre is one of the largest, most comprehensive collections of global art accessible to the public. Robbing it would be an act against the public good. Applauding robbing it tells me exactly how little you think of the citizenry it serves.
libs getting mad at hasan piker saying he wants to heist the louvre and writing these are not serious people in all caps are correct they are telling riffing and telling jokes and it’s funny how mad people are getting about about a millionaire hypothetically stealing lemons from target
This is an incoherent vision of politics and political economy, the Louvre is a public institution, you are literally stealing from The People
there were all these very serious debates about whether Hasan Piker has a Dangerous Illiberal Ideology and What This Means About Our Politics and then he gets interviewed in the paper and he's like yeah bro it looked pretty sick when the louvre got robbed it's cooler than crypto right
Well I'm glad the op-ed encouraging people to engage in theft is carefully written and engages deeply with how civil disobedience and democratic culture and protest interaaaaact I'm just fucking with you they talk about robbing the Louvre!
I can't believe people have me saying to actually read a NYT piece because this is a transcript of fluffy conversational podcast where 3 people are shooting the shit. Don't pretend like we weren't all on here clapping about the latest Louvre heist. Both guests go on to say shoplifting isn't praxis
Cool crimes are things like breaking things INTO the Louvre, like hanging your own art or putting household objects on display as sculptures.
Look, the internet is still trying to force me to learn more about this man than I want/care to know, but that is 100% the appropriate response to a question as stupid as "Would you steal from the Louvre?"
This just seems like a dumb conversation. Why it's a NYTimes article is the bigger issue.
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