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

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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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Adamska said:
See this is why I mostly shit on her alcoholic and narcissistic parents. Only the most entitled of faggots gives more than a single middle name to a kid.
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In some countries it's common to give your kids more than one middle name, Holland being one example afaik. I don't know how customary it is in Sweden, but in any case, more telling of the parents' retardation/narcissism is the choice of Tintin as one of them.
 
Ginger Piglet said:
Unironically I can see her doing a sex tape in a few years' time.
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Oh believe me, shortly after she turned 18, the autists on /pol/ made plenty of convincing deepfakes of her using her newly post-18 face footage. It was simultaneously the funniest yet saddest thing ever.

EDIT: There's a particular WEBM deepfake video I keep seeing of her pop up fairly often which shows a guy feeling her up and going down on her, and it's layers upon layers of creepy and hilarious.
 
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Pampered Degenerate said:
In some countries it's common to give your kids more than one middle name, Holland being one example afaik. I don't know how customary it is in Sweden, but in any case, more telling of the parents' retardation/narcissism is the choice of Tintin as one of them.
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It is common depending on the region but her "syntax" is different, having four names and one is a comic book character, which can be traced back to a court case from 1998 or so when it became legal to name your kids Sephiroth and shit like that.
It is not uncommon for someone to have three names, a spoken name and the other two being legacy names coming from men or women on the paternal and maternal side of the family. I think it is kind of sweet.
What differs is the tradition of which of those is the spoken name and this can create confusion and anger at border controls and things like that.

She's a scrub because her spoken name is her first name and the next one is Tintin. Great way to shit on grandma, son.
 
Positron said:
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wtf are they feeding Greta? I think she's eating more than baked beans these days. She goes from looking like a malnourished 5th grader to an obese cornfed 8th grader from Iowa over the course of a year, while simultaneously looking both 15 and 50 depending on the camera angle. What level of witchery is this bitch on?

Anyone got any updates on the even crazier sister? The one that literally believed if she stepped on a crack that some terrible misfourtune would visit her mother.
 
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Has anyone bothered to inform Greta it's no longer a strike or skipping school since she has graduated? Surely embiggening a Cabbage Patch Doll and jamming a speaker in it would have been much easier if this was all they were going to use her for?
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wtf are they feeding Greta? I think she's eating more than baked beans these days. She goes from looking like a malnourished 5th grader to an obese cornfed 8th grader from Iowa over the course of a year, while simultaneously looking both 15 and 50 depending on the camera angle. What level of witchery is this bitch on?

Anyone got any updates on the even crazier sister? The one that literally believed if she stepped on a crack that some terrible misfourtune would visit her mother.
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There's something about how exceptionally unfortunate she looks that escapes my comprehension. I will eat my hat if both kids don't have FAS but even that won't result in all this. Any word on if she is bipolar? Or maybe her parents tried some weird pharma treatment for autism?
 
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