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.

 

[Muttnik]

Taking a sec because look at her hair. Fucking LOOK at it. Why is it so thin and spread at the very top of her head? Is it her fetal alcohol forehead or is her hair literally thinning more and more by the year? She looks like a cancer patient.

Vegans. Not even once. I will eat my steak, drink my milk, and enjoy thick wavy locks by the beach when this quarantine shit is over.

 

[Meat Poultry Veg]

So she hasn't even been tested and is announcing it anyway? Nice attention whoring.

It's the world's first second political virus. (AIDS was the first).

 

[World's Smallest Violin]

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Taking a sec because look at her hair. Fucking LOOK at it. Why is it so thin and spread at the very top of her head? Is it her fetal alcohol forehead or is her hair literally thinning more and more by the year? She looks like a cancer patient.

Vegans. Not even once. I will eat my steak, drink my tard cum, and enjoy thick wavy locks by the beach when this quarantine shit is over.

And the vacant serial killer eyes too.

 

[The Last Stand]

I should start a pool about how long its going to take Greta to start an onlyfans account after she turns 18

I bet you and many other angry right wingers would revenge watch if that happened.

 

[Chad Nasty]

I bet you and many other angry right wingers would revenge watch if that happened.

She's not a dude. And I ONLY have SEX with DUDES.

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

Definitely developmental disorders, even though we don't know which.

 

[Duke Nukem]

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Taking a sec because look at her hair. Fucking LOOK at it. Why is it so thin and spread at the very top of her head? Is it her fetal alcohol forehead or is her hair literally thinning more and more by the year? She looks like a cancer patient.

Vegans. Not even once. I will eat my steak, drink my tard cum, and enjoy thick wavy locks by the beach when this quarantine shit is over.

Don't worry my dude, a vegan diet sure will help one recover from the coronavirus. Not!

 

[World's Smallest Violin]

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Taking a sec because look at her hair. Fucking LOOK at it. Why is it so thin and spread at the very top of her head? Is it her fetal alcohol forehead or is her hair literally thinning more and more by the year? She looks like a cancer patient.

Vegans. Not even once. I will eat my steak, drink my tard cum, and enjoy thick wavy locks by the beach when this quarantine shit is over.

Ms. Thunberg developing her commemorative environmentalist skullet I see you'd think veganism is healthy because CHOLESTOROL BAD or whatever but i've yet to see malnourishment compilations on omnivore diets.

 

[Antipathy]

Definitely developmental disorders, even though we don't know which.

Shovelfaced autist martyr shitbabies are popular among pearl clutching self appointed moral guardians.

It's not FAS, but there's something distinctly wrong with her face. I can't quite put my finger on it, but something's dreadfully off. She reminds me of Mark Zuckerberg, of all people. There's just something unspeakably wrong.

 

[Absolutego]

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Taking a sec because look at her hair. Fucking LOOK at it. Why is it so thin and spread at the very top of her head? Is it her fetal alcohol forehead or is her hair literally thinning more and more by the year? She looks like a cancer patient.

Vegans. Not even once. I will eat my steak, drink my tard cum, and enjoy thick wavy locks by the beach when this quarantine shit is over.

Not enough fish in her diet, which is hilarious considering she's a Scandi.

 

[Krimjob]

Not enough fish in her diet, which is hilarious considering she's a Scandi.

Eh not really, fish is a luxury in Sweden due to taxes. There are some cheap alternatives but not many. Unless you count fish sticks (which I don't). Obviously this isn't an excuse for her though as she is part of the Swedish upper crust.

Considering both kids in the family are...derp, to put it mildly, I assume most of it is genetic. Her parents do look better, but there is clearly something off with the two of them too.

I wouldn't exclude FAS though. The upper crust in Sweden is infamous for their alcohol abuse. This especially goes for women. It's at the point where you can clearly notice how most female politicians in the government are alcoholics just based on the fact that their most insane takes on Twitter always appear between 23:00 and 02:00 on weekdays. This goes, to a certain extent, for Greta's mom too, however, I haven't checked her specific dates and times for the most insane bullshit she's written the past ten years.

 

[The best and greatest]

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Taking a sec because look at her hair. Fucking LOOK at it. Why is it so thin and spread at the very top of her head? Is it her fetal alcohol forehead or is her hair literally thinning more and more by the year? She looks like a cancer patient.

Vegans. Not even once. I will eat my steak, drink my tard cum, and enjoy thick wavy locks by the beach when this quarantine shit is over.

STRESS ma nigga. Theres a good chance she's picking her skull out of sheer stress. Because the enviro-movement stole her childhood and kidnapped her into a glorified world-wide fundraising scheme.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I bet you and many other angry right wingers would revenge watch if that happened.

I’ll jerk off to her (legal adult) porn as soon as she makes it, not because of attraction (she’s ugly), but for the feeling of superiority and the curiosity.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

I’ll jerk off to her (legal adult) porn as soon as she makes it, not because of attraction (she’s ugly), but for the feeling of superiority and the curiosity.

Greta porn would probablably be bdsm fart porn where she gets punished for her methane emissions

 

[Idonttrustlikethat]

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Taking a sec because look at her hair. Fucking LOOK at it. Why is it so thin and spread at the very top of her head? Is it her fetal alcohol forehead or is her hair literally thinning more and more by the year? She looks like a cancer patient.

Vegans. Not even once. I will eat my steak, drink my tard cum, and enjoy thick wavy locks by the beach when this quarantine shit is over.

Maybe Greta is a trannay.

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

Eh not really, fish is a luxury in Sweden due to taxes. There are some cheap alternatives but not many. Unless you count fish sticks (which I don't). Obviously this isn't an excuse for her though as she is part of the Swedish upper crust.

Considering both kids in the family are...derp, to put it mildly, I assume most of it is genetic. Her parents do look better, but there is clearly something off with the two of them too.

I wouldn't exclude FAS though. The upper crust in Sweden is infamous for their alcohol abuse. This especially goes for women. It's at the point where you can clearly notice how most female politicians in the government are alcoholics just based on the fact that their most insane takes on Twitter always appear between 23:00 and 02:00 on weekdays. This goes, to a certain extent, for Greta's mom too, however, I haven't checked her specific dates and times for the most insane bullshit she's written the past ten years.

If any she has fetal alcohol effect - not syndrome - which looks like something like FAS-light, one gets it if one's mom isn't a total drunkard, but can't abstain from the after eight shot either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_spectrum_disorder

 

[Antipathy]

If any she has fetal alcohol effect - not syndrome - which looks like something like FAS-light, one gets it if one's mom isn't a total drunkard, but can't abstain from the after eight shot either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_spectrum_disorder

Eh not really, fish is a luxury in Sweden due to taxes. There are some cheap alternatives but not many. Unless you count fish sticks (which I don't). Obviously this isn't an excuse for her though as she is part of the Swedish upper crust.

Considering both kids in the family are...derp, to put it mildly, I assume most of it is genetic. Her parents do look better, but there is clearly something off with the two of them too.

I wouldn't exclude FAS though. The upper crust in Sweden is infamous for their alcohol abuse. This especially goes for women. It's at the point where you can clearly notice how most female politicians in the government are alcoholics just based on the fact that their most insane takes on Twitter always appear between 23:00 and 02:00 on weekdays. This goes, to a certain extent, for Greta's mom too, however, I haven't checked her specific dates and times for the most insane bullshit she's written the past ten years.

The reason I'm discounting FAS is her philtrum. Otherwise she's got that FAS face. Thin upper lip, weak jaw, underdeveloped midface, small eyes... it's weird.

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

The reason I'm discounting FAS is her philtrum. Otherwise she's got that FAS face. Thin upper lip, weak jaw, underdeveloped midface, small eyes... it's weird.

If you think about it, she really does look a bit creepy.

 

[Antipathy]

If you think about it, she really does look a bit creepy.

I wish her philtrum didn't exist so that I could just say "FAS" and call it a day, but the fact that it's there and so pronounced makes me bash my head into a wall. What the fuck is wrong with this gremlin child's face?

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

I wish her philtrum didn't exist so that I could just say "FAS" and call it a day, but the fact that it's there and so pronounced makes me bash my head into a wall. What the fuck is wrong with this gremlin child's face?

It's a crackpot theory, totally, but can a philtrum be created surgically? Her parents are rich, maybe mommy wanted to cover up the fact she drank while pregnant.

MORE LIKELY, afaik you don't have to hit all the marks for a milder form of fetal alcohol syndrome (can confirm, fas girl I knew looked pretty normal). So maybe mommy didn't drink "as much" as she could have. I'd even go as far as to say she's just got the super-white thin lip, but that wouldn't explain the rest of the deformity.