Science Greta Thunberg Megathread - Dax Herrera says he wouldn't have a day ago (I somewhat doubt that)

Why is Greta Thunberg so triggering? How can a 16-year-old girl in plaits, who has dedicated herself to the not-exactly sinister, authoritarian plot of trying to save the planet from extinction, inspire such incandescent rage?

Last week, she tweeted that she had arrived into New York after her two week transatlantic voyage: “Finally here. Thank you everyone who came to see me off in Plymouth, and everyone who welcomed me in New York! Now I’m going to rest for a few days, and on Friday I’m going to participate in the strike outside the UN”, before promptly giving a press conference in English. Yes, her second language.

Her remarks were immediately greeted with a barrage of jibes about virtue signalling, and snide remarks about the three crew members who will have to fly out to take the yacht home.

This shouldn’t need to be spelled out, but as some people don’t seem to have grasped it yet, we’ll give it a lash: Thunberg’s trip was an act of protest, not a sacred commandment or an instruction manual for the rest of us. Like all acts of protest, it was designed to be symbolic and provocative. For those who missed the point – and oh, how they missed the point – she retweeted someone else’s “friendly reminder” that: “You don’t need to spend two weeks on a boat to do your part to avert our climate emergency. You just need to do everything you can, with everyone you can, to change everything you can.”

Part of the reason she inspires such rage, of course, is blindingly obvious. Climate change is terrifying. The Amazon is burning. So too is the Savannah. Parts of the Arctic are on fire. Sea levels are rising. There are more vicious storms and wildfires and droughts and floods. Denial is easier than confronting the terrifying truth.

Then there’s the fact that we don’t like being made to feel bad about our life choices. That’s human nature. It’s why we sneer at vegans. It’s why we’re suspicious of sober people at parties. And if anything is likely to make you feel bad about your life choices -- as you jet back home after your third Ryanair European minibreak this season – it’ll be the sight of small-boned child subjecting herself to a fortnight being tossed about on the Atlantic, with only a bucket bearing a “Poo Only Please” sign by way of luxury, in order to make a point about climate change.

But that’s not virtue signalling, which anyone can indulge in. As Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, and their-four-private-jets-in-11-days found recently, virtue practising is a lot harder.

Even for someone who spends a lot of time on Twitter, some of the criticism levelled at Thunberg is astonishing. It is, simultaneously, the most vicious and the most fatuous kind of playground bullying. The Australian conservative climate change denier Andrew Bolt called her “deeply disturbed” and “freakishly influential” (the use of “freakish”, we can assume, was not incidental.) The former UKIP funder, Arron Banks, tweeted “Freaking yacht accidents do happen in August” (as above.) Brendan O’Neill of Spiked called her a “millenarian weirdo” (nope, still not incidental) in a piece that referred nastily to her “monotone voice” and “the look of apocalyptic dread in her eyes”.

But who’s the real freak – the activist whose determination has single-handedly started a powerful global movement for change, or the middle-aged man taunting a child with Asperger syndrome from behind the safety of their computer screens?

And that, of course, is the real reason why Greta Thunberg is so triggering. They can’t admit it even to themselves, so they ridicule her instead. But the truth is that they’re afraid of her. The poor dears are terrified of her as an individual, and of what she stands for – youth, determination, change.

She is part of a generation who won’t be cowed. She isn’t about to be shamed into submission by trolls. That’s not actually a look of apocalyptic dread in her eyes. It’s a look that says “you’re not relevant”.

The reason they taunt her with childish insults is because that’s all they’ve got. They’re out of ideas. They can’t dismantle her arguments, because she has science – and David Attenborough – on her side. They can’t win the debate with the persuasive force of their arguments, because these bargain bin cranks trade in jaded cynicism, not youthful passion. They can harangue her with snide tweets and hot take blogposts, but they won’t get a reaction because, frankly, she has bigger worries on her mind.

That’s not to say that we should accept everything Thunberg says without question. She is an idealist who is young enough to see the world in black and white. We need voices like hers. We should listen to what she has to say, without tuning the more moderate voices of dissent out.

Why is Greta Thunberg so triggering? Because of what she represents. In an age when democracy is under assault, she hints at the emergency of new kind of power, a convergence of youth, popular protest and irrefutable science. And for her loudest detractors, she also represents something else: the sight of their impending obsolescence hurtling towards them.

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Found this thought-provoking indeed.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

Sooner or later, someone's going to say "Why are we listening to an actual exceptional child?"

Why are we listening to an actual exceptional child?

 

[AnOminous]

Poor baby...

As Criticism Mounts, Greta Thunberg Threatens To Leave Facebook Unless Her Critics Are Silenced

Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has recently threatened to quit Facebook, claiming hate speech directed to her on the platform is encouraging violence.

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and look at the pic. I never knew Down's Syndrome was progressive! She's looking more mongish by the day.
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Well, there's the door, Goblina. You know what to do with it.

 

[Atomic Wangler]

I didn't see this brought up earlier in the thread, but there was a bug on Facebook for a couple of hours that showed who was posting on various accounts. Apparently, Greta's Dad has been the one posting on her Facebook.

Busted! Facebook Bug Reveals Greta Thunberg's Posts Are Written by Her Father

Privacy Adviser: "People who run sensitive Pages from their own Facebook should now consider that their identity may be known."

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It's pretty obvious that Greta has just been a mouthpiece for climate activism, but seeing proof that it was her own father using his daughter as a shield for his shit takes is something.

 

[The Sauce Boss]

I didn't see this brought up earlier in the thread, but there was a bug on Facebook for a couple of hours that showed who was posting on various accounts. Apparently, Greta's Dad has been the one posting on her Facebook.

Busted! Facebook Bug Reveals Greta Thunberg's Posts Are Written by Her Father

Privacy Adviser: "People who run sensitive Pages from their own Facebook should now consider that their identity may be known."

www.redstate.com

It's pretty obvious that Greta has just been a mouthpiece for climate activism, but seeing proof that it was her own father using his daughter as a shield for his shit takes is something.

It's not 'something', it's disgusting. Literally throwing your child into the lion's den of public opinion when she has a noted disability, one that makes it difficult to handle large social interactions and high pressure situations.

 

[AnOminous]

It's not 'something', it's disgusting. Literally throwing your child into the lion's den of public opinion when she has a noted disability, one that makes it difficult to handle large social interactions and high pressure situations.

And then exploiting the public autistic meltdowns for even more attention.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Poor baby...

As Criticism Mounts, Greta Thunberg Threatens To Leave Facebook Unless Her Critics Are Silenced

Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has recently threatened to quit Facebook, claiming hate speech directed to her on the platform is encouraging violence.

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and look at the pic. I never knew Down's Syndrome was progressive! She's looking more mongish by the day.
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"Threatening" to quit facebag is like threatening to quit doing crack.

 

[Slimy Time]

I didn't see this brought up earlier in the thread, but there was a bug on Facebook for a couple of hours that showed who was posting on various accounts. Apparently, Greta's Dad has been the one posting on her Facebook.

Busted! Facebook Bug Reveals Greta Thunberg's Posts Are Written by Her Father

Privacy Adviser: "People who run sensitive Pages from their own Facebook should now consider that their identity may be known."

www.redstate.com

It's pretty obvious that Greta has just been a mouthpiece for climate activism, but seeing proof that it was her own father using his daughter as a shield for his shit takes is something.

The most astroturfed "celebrity" of 2019. Doesn't control her own Twitter, has people write all of her speeches. The fact that her father is actively larping as his daughter online is pathetic. If this faggot wanted to be a climate change activist, he should get up there and make those speeches himself instead of shielding himself behind his sped daughter. What a fucking pussy.

 

[The Sauce Boss]

The most astroturfed "celebrity" of 2019. Doesn't control her own Twitter, has people write all of her speeches. The fact that her father is actively larping as his daughter online is pathetic. If this faggot wanted to be a climate change activist, he should get up there and make those speeches himself instead of shielding himself behind his sped daughter. What a fucking pussy.

Climate change is a real issue. You have every right to speak up about it. If you can't take the Heat, get out of the fucking kitchen

 

[TowinKarz]

I didn't see this brought up earlier in the thread, but there was a bug on Facebook for a couple of hours that showed who was posting on various accounts. Apparently, Greta's Dad has been the one posting on her Facebook.

Well, everyone shocked that that is the case, raise a hand....





Thought so....

"Threatening" to quit facebag is like threatening to quit doing crack.

I see it more as threatening to quit masturbating, we never wanted to hear about it in the first place and nobody but you will be affected.

Climate change is a real issue. You have every right to speak up about it. If you can't take the Heat, get out of the fucking kitchen

More of the same "Winning the argument" from the left, and of course, to be a "Fair" argument, any criticism is instantly labeled harassment, any opposition is small-mindedness and any mean words are abuse.

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

"The edit history for Greta Thunberg’s page shows that the content has actually been written by her father, Svante Thunberg, and Adarsh Prathap, a climate activist in India who serves as a delegate at the UN’s Climate Change organization."

I can't believe this. Her dad had to outsource his daughter's Facebook posts XD

Edit: Wait, she said she can't go to India or China despite their higher levels of pollution unless they invite her. Well, I can see why the invitation was lost in the mail! How DARE they!

 

[TowinKarz]

To the country that is the 2nd worst polluter in the world behind only China, no less..... you are literally everything wrong with modern Green movements, Thunberg Clan, you talk a big game up front while outsourcing the dirty work of production to sweat shops were the lack of environmental regulations lets you rake in the profits behind the scenes, which is okay, because like a planetary indulgence, your "Caring" somehow cancels out all that carbon.... and think of all the good you can do with that money made on the backs of barely-not-slave-labor in places where the air on a bad day is chewable?


Fuckin' Hypocrites, even MORE than usual.

 

[Kiwi Farms Lurker]

"… Adarsh Prathap, a climate activist in India …"

More like street-shitting pajeet activist.

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

I like this headline

"On Facebook Greta looks 16, but secretly identifies as two grown men"

On Facebook Greta looks 16, but secretly identifies as two grown men « JoNova

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There is nothing either wrong or surprising about this. Only an idiot would believe (then or still) that she is writing her public remarks for delivery to social media or the UN. She’s a Muppet. A child trafficked in socialist environmental doomsaying. A prop. But who the heck is Adarsh Prathap?

According to LinkedIn, he is a Global Regional Coordinator at Youth Engaged in Wetlands. Principal Investigator of Revive Vellayani Project. And a big fan of the UN. Youth Engaged in Wetlands is “an international youth team committed to the conservation, protection, and wise-use of wetlands. YEW provides a global platform for young people to enable and empower them to help protect promote our wetlands.”

He’s a Green Energy player with UN connections. A stakeholder in the economic swindle that is the socialist Globalist environmental assault on the West.

"Shitlands" more like. Also an interesting tidbit:

It reminds me of Obama’s twitter account which turned out to be almost entirely run by an activist group called Organizing for Action (OFA). Curiously OFA tweeted in the name of the man who was leader of the Democratic Party, but they are legally a non-partisan organization. Figure out how that works. Strangely, even once people knew the tweets were not his, they still quoted the twitter feed as if he said them.

 

[ditto]

Spoiler: Here is what Greta will look like 50 years from now.

If you don't eat yer bugs, you can't have any pudding.

 

[AlexJonesGotMePregnant]

Spoiler: Here is what Greta will look like 50 years from now.

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If you don't eat yer bugs, you can't have any pudding.

that could easily appear anytime in the 'ugliest troon' thread

 

[Overly Serious]

Forgive me if this was mentioned already, but the city of Manchester had a competition to name its eight new snow / ice trucks. One of the trucks is now named Gritter Thunberg.

This makes me happy.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Climate change is a real issue. You have every right to speak up about it. If you can't take the Heat, get out of the fucking kitchen

If you can't take the "heat" for saying shit The Ministry of Truth approves of then you are a pathetic, worthless, useless bag of crap.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Spoiler: Here is what Greta will look like 50 years from now.

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If you don't eat yer bugs, you can't have any pudding.

The way Greta might possibly age, I don't want to imagine how David Hogg will look like 50 years from now.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

If you don't eat yer bugs, you can't have any pudding.

Fuck, I really appreciate the Pink Floyd reference. The same sycophantic Gretards who would celebrate Floyd's message as precious counterculture anti-authoritarianism now want to pack us all into sardine cans and treat us like livestock.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Fuck, I really appreciate the Pink Floyd reference. The same sycophantic Gretards who would celebrate Floyd's message as precious counterculture anti-authoritarianism now want to pack us all into sardine cans and treat us like livestock.

That's the useful idiots, people like Greta's father would latch into any popular political position that would allow them to assert their dominance over the masses.