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Dutch police have detained activist Greta Thunberg at a climate demonstration in The Hague (apnews.com)

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[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 144 points 10 months ago

Have to admit, Extinction Rebellion is a pretty good name for an activist group.

[-] Gormadt 37 points 10 months ago

And a damn cool sounding band name

[-] Bonehead@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago

...or a punk band.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 134 points 10 months ago

ITT: bots, trolls, and plain old fools angrier with this woman for demanding that we stop climate change than with the mega corps trying to cause long-term devastation for short-term gain.

[-] toaster@slrpnk.net 99 points 10 months ago

[-] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

Billion or even trillion, more like.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

There's like 1 guy. I mean, I know there are masses of angry chuds out there who hate her(and also not-so-secretly lust after her, which is beyond sick) but in this thread there's just the one.

P.S. the other is a troll who is using sarcasm wrong.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Check /r/europe threads about her.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 72 points 10 months ago

I sure hope the dutch police are gonna provide us all with food when the famine comes.

[-] OnlyTakesLs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] mapiki@discuss.online 61 points 10 months ago

"a protest against Dutch subsidies and tax breaks to companies linked to fossil fuel industries"

We can do all the activities you mention with a much lower impact. And fighting climate change allows many farmers in developing countries to actually survive. (Think of the problems with cocoa harvests failing or with Mongolian herders losing herds three years in a row instead of once a decade.)

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ranching and fishing, yes. But considering that worldwide more than 70% of agriculture is used to support ranching, it definitely seems that ranching is reducing the amount of food worldwide, not increasing it.

Edit: Also should mention, generally when climate activists talk about drastically cutting down or outright ending ranching, that's for the developed world, where healthy alternatives exist. Nobody sane is talking about going and taking the dairy cows off of Indian villagers who depend on it for survival.

Also, we have destroyed the global aquaculture with overfishing.

[-] mars296@kbin.social 36 points 10 months ago

The person you are responding to is not arguing in good faith. I was going to say don't feed the troll but maybe it's better to refute the BS so unsuspecting people don't read them thinking they are correct.

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago

Absolutely. I think it's better to refute than to ignore (within reason) for people reading through the thread. Not for the benefit of the troll.

[-] Gormadt 19 points 10 months ago

Cows in general are so ludacrisly environmentally impactful it's crazy

[-] Zorsith 6 points 10 months ago

And beef frankly isn't even that great IMO. Lamb tastes better to me, plus sheepsmilk cheese is DELICIOUS

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[-] null@slrpnk.net 27 points 10 months ago

Username checks out

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[-] bort@sopuli.xyz 53 points 10 months ago

She had it coming. This mess is her fault after all.

Don't believe me? Listen to the Science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkrcxLgHn-w

[-] Hedlosa 55 points 10 months ago

Clear evidence! It's all her fault, she actually secretly takes planes everywhere. They don't appear on public records because they're stealth jets; she actually works for Biden in spreading the woke agenda!!!

[-] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 38 points 10 months ago

Bro forgot the /s.

People not watching this is understandable, they probably don't want to drive any traffic to a video with an obviously bogus claim.

[-] JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months ago

The downvotes on this comment clearly are refusing to watch the evidence backed video you've linked.

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago

I'm not one of the downvoters, but when someone says "Listen to the science" and links a Youtube video as source, 99 times out of 100 it's not worth clicking.

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[-] bort@sopuli.xyz 10 points 10 months ago

you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

You can also refuse to give traffic to crazy people's linked videos before knowing what they are.

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think people are just nervous they'll click and get some crazy climate denying stuff or something especially with all the hate she gets. The YouTube recommendations go nuts if you watch even a single video on something. Risky click. Excellent science based video you posted there though. A /s would've saved on the down votes if you care.

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[-] r_se_random@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

10/10

[-] Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Sorry for the downvoted, this was actually pretty funny

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[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 10 months ago

Greta is an inspiration

[-] LadyAutumn 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

She is one of the most influential activists in a generation. I greatly admire her dedication and commitment. She's been arrested like half a dozen times now, and she shows no sign whatsoever of backing down.

[-] TIMMAY@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

the hero we need

[-] BOFH666@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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[-] CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 98 points 10 months ago

And what exactly did she do to you? Hurt your feelings?

[-] Gormadt 63 points 10 months ago

Careful you might trigger the snowflake‡ and they'll whine and argue in the comments for days to come about how they should be able to stomp on the rights of people they disagree with while simultaneously sucking off the nearest billionaire.

‡ I've recently started finding it insanely fun calling conservative folk "snowflakes" as it pisses them off to such an incredible degree

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 20 points 10 months ago

that and talking about them being triggered …

[-] Nelots@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately, I'm not sure if conservatives have the mental capacity to understand you're referring to them when you call them snowflakes.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 77 points 10 months ago

Classic fucking conservative psychopath; "yeah lock a nonviolent offender up for life because she hurt my little feefees"

[-] echo64@lemmy.world 71 points 10 months ago

I love how mad this girl makes all the boomers and genx weirdos. It's so entertaining to me. All she has to do is exist, and the collective blood pressure of all the world's loosers rises.

[-] Pete_topkevinbottom@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

What's a looser? Do you mean loser? Loser?

[-] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Was this supposed to be some kind of comeback lol?

[-] Scurouno@lemmy.ca 54 points 10 months ago

Are you suggesting that in democratic countries that citizens should not have the right to free assembly? Or that active criticism of government or corporate powers should be banned?

Not only would this be a dangerous precedent that belies fascist ways of thinking, it also would then take away any legal right you likely believe the Jan. 6 insurrectionists had to free assembly. Of course in that case they were actively breaking the law by entering restricted areas, brandishing weapons, committing acts of violence... Unlike these dangerous climate protestors who were blocking a public street (clutches pearls).

[-] KvasiroftheWoods@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

It's absolutely bonkers. I met a 16 year old guy who is pretty sharp and politically active, he told me he wanted to run when he is of age to, he tried to play rope a dope with me about how the Jan 6 insurrection was a "protest" and how Trump had no culpability in fomenting the insurrection. I told him, in no uncertain terms, if you can't admit to the greatest modern threat to democracy then you should never run for political office.

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

All they're suggesting is that someone has told them that she is a threat to their world view for some reason and she needs to be imprisoned so they don't have to face their fragility or the consequences of their choices on the regular. This hurts the conservative.

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 16 points 10 months ago

Do you need a hug? You sound like you need a hug. Like maybe your parents didn't hug you enough or something.

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

Massive chud energy right there

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