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Greta Thunberg - brave campaigner or deeply disturbed?

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Ziggurat said:
She's just a kid, you can't blame her. Blame the people who called her to come speak instead of a scientist. They shouldn't put her in the spotlight like this, it's child exploitation.
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And if it had been a scientist you'd have found some reason to ignore them.
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Right wingers: "This is all wrong. Thunberg shouldn't be up there. She should be back in school on the other side of the ocean."

Thunberg: "This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean."

Yet somehow they seem to think they're disagreeing with her.
 
catsmate said:
And if it had been a scientist you'd have found some reason to ignore them.
:rolleyes:
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What exactly do you think not ignoring them consists of? Seriously, what is it you expect me to do? Revert to a 14th century agrarian lifestyle? Give up my car and walk everywhere? Donate all my money to Amazon reforestation efforts? Buy a Prius so I can emit smug?

Or is what you really want for me to vote Democrat?
 
Matthew Best said:
Right wingers: "This is all wrong. Thunberg shouldn't be up there. She should be back in school on the other side of the ocean."

Thunberg: "This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean."

Yet somehow they seem to think they're disagreeing with her.
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The tell here is that it's within Thunberg's power to go back to school on the other side of the ocean, if she so chooses.
 
Ziggurat said:
And BTW, she has been very much moulded by her parents. How do you think she got this crippling anxiety about the climate, which she had long before she turned 16? Her parents have basically inflicted a neurosis on her.
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Yes because there's no reason to worry about climate change. Worrying about climate change so much that one actively agitates for action to avert, or at least mitigate, the negative effects of climate change is evidence of a "neurosis".

I should note here that Sweden, where she's from, is one of the countries that has warmed up almost twice as much as the global average. The effects of global warming are felt here right now.
 
Matthew Best said:
Also, campaigning has never had any effect on anything whatsoever.
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Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Presumably responsible and competent campaigners -
- will have some clear idea of the goal they're trying to achieve
- will have some way to measure progress towards that goal
- will have some way to measure the effectiveness of their campaign in making progress
- will have some plan in mind for what to do if they're not measuring any progress from their campaign

Whether you're selling time-shares, or sugar cereal, or public policy, there's more to a successful campaign than a simple cargo-cult, "campaigning works, so our campaign will work!"
 
Ms. Thunberg has one disqualifying attribute: she is from Europe.
Since US = no.1, any criticism can be safely ignored.
 
This may have already been posted, but I thought it was pretty funny..

Headline read :

Greta Thunberg turns Trump's attack back on him

As if this was a Trump beat down..

Attack? Give me a break..

What we actually get is:

Trump very generously says in a Tweet:

“She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future."
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While Thunberg changes her Tweety bio to read:

“A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.”
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Isn't that plagiarism ?
 
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Stupid narrative.
Greta isn't exploited, and she will have to spend far more time on what's left of the Earth than any "handlers".

Just because so many people can't think for themselves doesn't mean a sixteen year old girl can't.
 
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