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.

 

[RandomTwitterGuy]

I don't give a shit about Greta.

HOWEVER.
The fact that Conservatives are pilling to this fucking tweet shows that they are either clout goblins or snowflakes.
I like seeing these people REEEEEEEE over that fag Andrew getting triggered over the fact that he has a small penis.

 

[Kiwisee]

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https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1608056944501178368

https://archive.ph/ckhm8

Now there's an interaction I never saw coming lmao

Ah yes, two of most annoying people on both sides of the spectrum going at it is one way to end the year

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

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Now there's an interaction I never saw coming lmao

It's really cute that people in the replies think it's actually Greta managing her accounts

If an actual adult wrote that “smalldickenergy” email joke, then I would question if there’s anything criminal in his hard drive involving children.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

I wonder if the staff of the Gateway Pundit are a bit sarcastic? They called Greta Thunberg a conspiracy theorist in that article.

Swedish Conspiracy Theorist Greta Thunberg Takes Another Jab at Andrew Tate Over Pizza Boxes After his Arrest in Romania

Social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother were apprehended by law enforcement officials in Romania on Thursday and face charges related to sex-trafficking allegations. However, The News.com claimed that Romanian authorities had confirmed allegations that Andrew Tate was involved in...

www.thegatewaypundit.com

Swedish Conspiracy Theorist Greta Thunberg Takes Another Jab at Andre…

archived 30 Dec 2022 20:53:14 UTC

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I can hear El Risitas laughing from his tombstone.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Wow, what an own:

And on a website which has been confirmed to have federal agents and bots working overtime to give out increasing propaganda and social engineering through excessive dopamine rush.

 

[Mikoyan]

Wow, what an own:

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And on a website which has been confirmed to have federal agents and bots working overtime to give out increasing propaganda and social engineering through excessive dopamine rush.

You've... seen the featured thread on this, right?

Dude got in jail as a result of that insane thread. Much as I don't like Greta having a W on the record, one has to say it's an own.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

You've... seen the featured thread on this, right?

Dude got in jail as a result of that insane thread. Much as I don't like Greta having a W on the record, one has to say it's an own.

True, but in the same breath, I don’t think we should be relying on the likes of Greta and Andrew Tate to tell us what’s right or wrong. They’re both to me no more different than this William Shakespeare quote:



Just because one grifter pwned another grifter does not mean I have to go “YASS QUEEN SLAY YASS” over something that her PR may have tweeted for her.

 

[Mikoyan]

True, but in the same breath, I don’t think we should be relying on the likes of Greta and Andrew Tate to tell us what’s right or wrong. They’re both to me are no more different than this William Shakespeare quote:

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Just because one grifter pwned another grifter does not mean I have to go “YASS QUEEN SLAY YASS” over something that her PR may have tweeted for her.

Enh. If Stalin came back and Makaroved a trafficker on live TV I'd be like 'this guy is everything I hate and yet this is one action I approve of.' Doesn't mean I like her outside of this.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

Dude got in jail as a result of that insane thread. Much as I don't like Greta having a W on the record, one has to say it's an own.

I'm still processing how that joke just spiralled into such a situation - it's like sitting on a whoopy cushion and really shitting your pants at the same time.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

So apperantly the pizza thing was fake news made by a tranny, the raid was apperantly just a coincidence.

 

[Mikoyan]

I'm still processing how that joke just spiralled into such a situation - it's like sitting on a whoopy cushion and really shitting your pants at the same time.

Cocaine... is a hell of a drug.

So apperantly the pizza thing was fake news made by a tranny, the raid was apperantly just a coincidence.

Fucking hilarious if true.

 

[Happy Fish]

Note to self: If I am ever a world-famous lolcow make sure to have someone even more embarrassing to make fun of in a pinch.

 

[Mikoyan]

Note to self: If I am ever a world-famous lolcow make sure to have someone even more embarrassing to make fun of in a pinch.

You're lucky you're already on the world's foremost directory of 'people worse than you'.

 

[ditto]

Wow, what an own:

I bet the indian dude that runs her social media gets a nice bonus this year.

 

[Kiwisee]

I wonder how much longer the climate grift will go on once people start freezing and starving to death.

 

[HerrKlicks]

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1615412401662296064

Greta being carried like a sack of rancid potatoes

 

[Meriasek]

https://twitter.com/HanchoskyErik/status/1615427938136252416

Carefully staged for maximum efficiency. They did the same a few days earlier with related FFF activist Luisa Neubauer.
Also, somehow, in addition to the obviously stunted growth from prolonged autism-induced malnutrition (can you believe she's actually 20?), Greta manages to look pudgy now.
Genetic lottery is a bitch.

/edit:
Because it's hilarious, here's the Neubauer picture from the same protest.

Such exquisite photography. Note the faceless policemen/women in their desaturated colours, almost grey. The symbol of a brutal regime of climate-destroying industry. Then Luisa Neubauer, bathed in golden light (or is it coming from herself, her inner righteousness?), still clinging to her poster as it is her most important possession, her message, nay, her evangelium. Her face shows an expression somewhere between resignment to her fate, an impending martyrium of inhuman beatings and rape by the bestial police, and serene knowledge that once this lignite mine that her own party voted for to be continued is stopped, the world will be a better one.
Brilliant propaganda.

 

[None Drunk Username]

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1615412401662296064

Greta being carried like a sack of rancid potatoes

I couldn't tell you how common the opinions in the replies are compared to the common person, but I was glad people largely see this as an obvious publicity stunt. My first thought seeing a news alert on this happening was, "Holy shit who cares?" Glad to see that exact reply in there.

 

[ShaBooBoo Markle]

This bitch gotta be about 20 by now surely.
So where are the leaked sex tapes of her getting her mongface covered in some big black man's coon juice?

She must have had plenty of cock by now. Even if she is a window licker.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Greta Thunberg getting arrested just a couple of weeks after Andrew Tate was arrested for his crime(s) is the perfect example of poetry being done towards e-celebs and the followers that slavishly follow them from the ends of the Earth.

My first thought seeing a news alert on this happening was, "Holy shit who cares?" Glad to see that exact reply in there.

You’ll see more of this in the near future with Greta. There’s more evidence that since she’s over 18, she’ll be treated like yesterday’s kid and replaced with younger and vulnerable kids that the WEF can latch onto to spread more agendas onto more impressionable youth.