Thread: Greta Thunberg ... just in-case you missed her

Club them like baby seals

Pretty laughable that a 16 year old girl has a bunch of wingnuts wound up all over the world. When one takes a step back and looks at those who are attacking her she looks more and more like the sane one all the time.

Isn't the luigi guise supposed to be the young free and single cheeky chappie jeering at the oldsters?

That was a quick flip.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

My position on that would be the people doing the mocking and jeering should probably take a good, long, hard look at themselves.

Maybe question their life choices that led them to that point and / or query why they're so intent on attacking the messenger and ignoring the message.

The big joke is that climate scientists, you know, people who have spent their careers studying this phenomena and are saying the exact same message are largely ignored, while we are all supposed to sit up an listen when the same thing is said by an uneducated petulant child.

Colour me confused.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

The big joke is that climate scientists, you know, people who have spent their careers studying this phenomena and are saying the exact same message are largely ignored, while we are all supposed to sit up an listen when the same thing is said by an uneducated petulant child.

The whackjobs will whackjob and continue to dismiss what the science says cos they saw a vdo on Youtube one time but the thing of it is people actually are sitting up and listening. Like her or not Thunberg has brought attention to the issue.

Another voice can't hurt and nor can mobilizing the yoof (AKA. Voters of the Future) to put a rocket up politicians.

^^Obviously her youth makes her life more likely to be seriously affected.

Thus her arguments carry more force.

And she's right...she's one of the betrayed in a way that you and I are not.


Did you find Al Gore hit harder?

http://twitter.com/i/status/1177178666402365440

In a video, a man describes himself as "a middle-aged man with an embarrassing problem", becoming "irrationally angry at a Swedish girl who wants to save the planet".

"If you're a grown adult who needs to yell at a child for some reason, the Greta Thunberg Helpline is here to tolerate you," the narrator says, adding, "It's okay. We understand that children acting like adults can make adults act like children."

"She's just fueling needless anxiety and making the end of the world sound like it's the end of the world!"

"We'll listen no matter how ridiculous you sound."

"Have you considered launching your own global movement?" "But it's so much easier to shit on someone else's."

"The Greta Thunberg Helpline: because when it comes to climate change we all know she's the real problem."



That's very well done.

Some well known people who have Asbergers syndrome. Anthony Hopkins, Dan Aykroyd, Stanley Kubrick, Andy Warhol, David Byrne, Tim Burton, and Daryl Hannah. Much more common in males than females..

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Meanwhile:

Climate change march: Thousands of schoolkids' action inspired by Greta Thunberg to illegally skip school

FTFU

Soon they will be protesting, nah, demanding to have Aspergers to be more like Greta

Originally Posted by Luigi

What is your position on children being put on show in front of the world, in a manner that they would/will be mocked and jeered?

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

My position on that would be the people doing the mocking and jeering should probably take a good, long, hard look at themselves.

No care about the welfare of the child?


Odd.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

Soon they will be protesting, nah, demanding to have Aspergers to be more like Greta

I'd just as soon see a bunch of fired up kids who care. Better than the types that put Trump and Boris into power, dont you think?

Originally Posted by Luigi

No care about the welfare of the child?


Odd.

What welfare does she need in your opinion Lu?

Originally Posted by Luigi

No care about the welfare of the child?

My Specious Post & Straw-man Detector is going fkn nuts right now!

Have you called the Helpline yet...?

Originally Posted by aging one

... Better than the types that put Trump and Boris into power, dont you think?

AO, you'e right ... I can't defend the indefensible!

Read a piece about kids breaking into sport's teams a week or so ago, and the impact it often has later on in their life, setting the first team minimum age as 18+ was put forward. Something I'd agree with.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

My Specious Post & Straw-man Detector is going fkn nuts right now!

Have you called the Helpline yet...?

So you do care about the welfare of the child?

But consider it fine to put a child with emotional instability and a mental disorder in the global limelight in a manner that will likely lead to them being globally mocked and jeered?

Originally Posted by Luigi

No care about the welfare of the child?

What are you on about? She is 16 years old. When I was that age I had a drivers license and my own car. I pretty much came and went as I wanted by then and if my mom tried to stop me from doing something I wanted to do it usually did not go well for her.

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Hi Koman I see you are lurking again. First in the climate change thread and now here. Greta must have a science denier like yourself all wound up.

Originally Posted by Luigi

Read a piece about kids breaking into sport's teams a week or so ago, and the impact it often has later on in their life.

Head injures, casual sex and bad punctuation?

Originally Posted by bsnub

What are you on about? She is 16 years old.

snubby, she (and the Media) do present her as a child.

“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us for hope. How dare you!”

An older child granted, a teenager, but still a child.

IMHO

Originally Posted by David48atTD

snubby, she (and the Media) do present her as a child.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

An older child granted, a teenager, but still a child.

No smart 16 year old thinks of themselves as a child mate. "We" they knew and know it all at that age.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

snubby, she (and the Media) do present her as a child.

Sheez...presenting as a child to some (with a suggestion that this is deliberately misleading), presenting as an adult to others (ditto).

No wonder it's a tough age.

Doubtless TD's very own fresh faced, prodigiously gifted feminist intellectual would be all over this.

Originally Posted by aging one

No smart 16 year old thinks of themselves as a child mate. "We" they knew and know it all at that age.

Hey, to be 16 again and know what you know

Oh ... and a little coin wouldn't go astray!

Originally Posted by Luigi

My Specious Post & Straw-man Detector is going fkn nuts right now!

So you do care about the welfare of the child?

But consider it fine to put a child with emotional instability and a mental disorder in the global limelight in a manner that will likely lead to them being globally mocked and jeered?

And there it goes again!

A "child with emotional instability and a mental disorder" are your words not mine, I don't consider her to have any of those things. I think she's an exceptional and brave person.

Originally Posted by Luigi

globally mocked and jeered

Those doing that are the ones that need to address their own behavior.

Here's history - - - - - - - - - - - > here's the wrong side of it.

"The Greta Thunberg Helpline: because when it comes to climate change we all know she's the real problem."

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

A "child with emotional instability and a mental disorder" are your words not mine, I don't consider her to have any of those things.

No mention of her in my question....

But consider it fine to put a child with emotional instability and a mental disorder in the global limelight in a manner that will likely lead to them being globally mocked and jeered?

Do you consider that to be okay?

Originally Posted by Luigi

No mention of her in my question....

So your hypothetical is about a "child with emotional instability and a mental disorder" in a thread about a child you have described as being a "child with emotional instability and a mental disorder"... Not spurious at all.

This is just getting silly. Insert whatever answer you want to.