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.

 

[Ron Jeremy Stan Account]

This is why you never pander to wokeshits. If your popularity depends on the whims of these neurotic freakazoids, they can withdraw it and cancel you. If your support comes from normies, normies do not give a single shit.

A wise man [Dr. Seuss] once said to always express your true self, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

 

[Jan Ciągwa]

Greta is literally weaponized autism.

 

[Windows XP Home Edition]

Lol, this is quite funny.

 

[WonderWino]

British university criticized for planned life-size Greta Thunberg statue

Winchester University plans to unveil the likeness of the spunky environmental activist on March 30 — but has some questioning why.

nypost.com

So, some shit for brains winchester university spent $32,000 to have a lifesize statue of greta built

I can just imagine the austistic screeching that will ensue if somebody smashes it up one night or cuts the head off

 

[trent]

British university criticized for planned life-size Greta Thunberg statue

Winchester University plans to unveil the likeness of the spunky environmental activist on March 30 — but has some questioning why.

nypost.com

So, some shit for brains winchester university spent $32,000 to have a lifesize statue of greta built

I can just imagine the austistic screeching that will ensue if somebody smashes it up one night or cuts the head off

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I'm not religious in the slightest but this is some "false idol" shit right here.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

British university criticized for planned life-size Greta Thunberg statue

Winchester University plans to unveil the likeness of the spunky environmental activist on March 30 — but has some questioning why.

nypost.com

So, some shit for brains winchester university spent $32,000 to have a lifesize statue of greta built

I can just imagine the austistic screeching that will ensue if somebody smashes it up one night or cuts the head off

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I can guarantee the same guy spent just as much money for his own lifesized "special" version of Greta.

 

[Parallel Moon]

While I do somewhat admire Greta and like how she's brought up the issue of climate change (in some ways), one serious problem with Thunberg is that she has a wide plethora of mental health/neurological disorders ranging from OCD to the autism spectrum. This is a young woman who has gone through bouts of depression, anxiety disorders and panic attacks, and has severe issues communicating things or seeing others' point of views. We have no idea what goes on in her mind, and she could be in constant distress and panic 24/7. Having a developing brain alongside these very concerning issues, she does not view or think all of these things in a completely rational way. There's no point of telling people to act accordingly without any plan or ideas while still crying wolf and urging others to panic. It's really sad how none of the people propping her up (including her parents) actually think about how she'll be doing in a few years' time and what good this will do for her.

I honestly feel a little sad for her. The best thing for her mental health issues would be for her to socialize with normal people, go to a regular school, get a job, etc. But now she is a public figure and always being put on display and criticized and so on. That's stressful on normal people, I can't imagine someone with her mental problems coping very well with all of it.

 

[Windows XP Home Edition]

I honestly feel a little sad for her. The best thing for her mental health issues would be for her to socialize with normal people, go to a regular school, get a job, etc. But now she is a public figure and always being put on display and criticized and so on. That's stressful on normal people, I can't imagine someone with her mental problems coping very well with all of it.

Even though Greta's offered good advice like using less plastics and buying used things, ultimately she should be encouraged to finish school, make a few friends, go into higher education and study sciences related to climate change and pollution where she'll make an even bigger impact and breakthrough one day.

 

[Consider Lizärds]

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Lol, this is quite funny.

I like to think she has an adult help with these sassy tweets.

 

[Windows XP Home Edition]

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https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2BB1KA (https://archive.ph/fb59Y)

I hope the climate change and pollution problem isn't polluted by woke activism. That's not going to get anything done or promote any differing perspectives. The worst polluters in the European Union/Europe are in Central and Southeastern Europe but that's never brought up or even given a solution. However, the Visegrad group (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic) detest the EU with a passion so don't expect them to budge.

Scandinavia, Switzerland, the British Isles, Estonia, and Austria have the least amount of PM 2.5. Shouldn't Greta be more focused on the countries with higher levels?

 

[Pampered Degenerate]

British university criticized for planned life-size Greta Thunberg statue

Winchester University plans to unveil the likeness of the spunky environmental activist on March 30 — but has some questioning why.

nypost.com

So, some shit for brains winchester university spent $32,000 to have a lifesize statue of greta built

I can just imagine the austistic screeching that will ensue if somebody smashes it up one night or cuts the head off

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It's funny, they've clearly tried to make her look less retarded than she does IRL but also given her a freakishly bulbous forehead that makes her look like an alien.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

I hope the climate change and pollution problem isn't polluted by woke activism.

Haha.

I'd say that ship sailed, but that ship was never even built. It literally never has not been.

 

[XYZpdq]

I like to think she has an adult help with these sassy tweets.

Uncle Ted is teaching her the art of the ecobantz.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

I can guarantee the same guy spent just as much money for his own lifesized "special" version of Greta.

Well, she's legal now, so it's only a matter of time until some turbo coomer shares his new custom Greta RealDoll on 4chan.

British university criticized for planned life-size Greta Thunberg statue

Winchester University plans to unveil the likeness of the spunky environmental activist on March 30 — but has some questioning why.

nypost.com

So, some shit for brains winchester university spent $32,000 to have a lifesize statue of greta built

I can just imagine the austistic screeching that will ensue if somebody smashes it up one night or cuts the head off

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Forget vandalizing it: you know damn well someone's gonna record a video of themselves humping the statue and stirring up international outrage on Twatter.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I hope the climate change and pollution problem isn't polluted by woke activism. That's not going to get anything done or promote any differing perspectives. The worst polluters in the European Union/Europe are in Central and Southeastern Europe but that's never brought up or even given a solution. However, the Visegrad group (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic) detest the EU with a passion so don't expect them to budge.
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Scandinavia, Switzerland, the British Isles, Estonia, and Austria have the least amount of PM 2.5. Shouldn't Greta be more focused on the countries with higher levels?

Jesus I never wanted a late ranking so much. Climate Change was polluted by woke from the get go. It exists solely to fuck over western countries, impose restrictions on personal liberties and force you to buy new shit.

 

[AnOminous]

Well, she's legal now, so it's only a matter of time until some turbo coomer shares his new custom Greta RealDoll on 4chan.

Someone already posted one on 4chan. Before she was legal.

Pretty sure it's fake.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Pretty sure it's fake.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

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Lol, this is quite funny.

Rate me as , but I think I'm missing the joke in this tweet. Is she saying the user account of Sky News has a small dick -- or is she implying she's a size queen who's protesting climate change because she wants to ride a fat hog? Either way it's disturbing.

 

[TowinKarz]

People with actual influence don't need statues made of them while they're still alive..... it just reeks of desperation to keep the narrative alive that she's a Messiah-like being, not just a failed Globohomo shill.

 

[Pampered Degenerate]

Rate me as , but I think I'm missing the joke in this tweet. Is she saying the user account of Sky News has a small dick -- or is she implying she's a size queen who's protesting climate change because she wants to ride a fat hog? Either way it's disturbing.

The 'joke' is that people, and presumably men in particular, will start to care about climate change only now that it's affecting the size of their penises. Because patriarchy/muh dik/men so fragile.