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Greta Thunberg: Little Tyrant?
I’ve listened to portions of her speeches before the UN and Davos, and that’s what she sounds like, a little tyrant.
She’s manipulative as well. There was the case when she rode a German train she said was overcrowded, and where she posted a photo of herself sitting on the floor because she couldn’t find a seat. Turns out she had a first-class ticket with an assigned seat, and the staff on the train made every effort to courteously direct her to that seat.
Reading between the lines from this article on the BBC website, I see parents who are terrified that she will commit suicide if she doesn’t get her way. A comment by her mother on Thunberg’s Wikipedia page also confirms my impression — that she didn’t reduce her carbon footprint because of the climate, but concerns for her daughter.
Swedish child law makes it hard for parents to discipline their children with corporal punishment outlawed. I can see how parents of a difficult child like Thunberg would end up afraid of her. And with both their parents being celebrities in Sweden in their own right, they are especially vulnerable to cancel culture.
I originally thought of Thunberg as a child who was manipulated and brainwashed into what she has become. But if she was, I don’t know that her parents are culpable. They seem like victims who will breathe a sigh of relief when Thunberg is old enough to get out of the house. That won’t make them completely free of her — it will take about 10 years for that — but it will be a big step nevertheless.
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Maybe if she spent some time in school actually learning she wouldn’t be so ignorant.
I think she is a “child who doesn’t know what she’s talking about,” to use your words. In fact that is a perfect synopsis of what I think about her. The “wise beyond her years” assessment comes from the leftist hagiographies of her.
I was simply responding to an assertion that she’s only an obsession on Ricochet. I think that’s demonstrably absurd, given the amount of coverage she gets. I used Time as an example. But if I cared to spend the time I could fill pages and pages with links to coverage from other media sources as well, so if you don’t like Time, pick another one. The fact that Time also had Hitler on its cover at one point is completely irrelevant to the point I was making – that Greta is a global media phenomenon, not a fringe character that only rabid right wingers are obsessed with. It would be nice if you read the comment being responded to for context before picking one word out of the response and building a criticism about it.
Now you know where Greta got her stink-eye.
Someone really needs to photoshop that t-shirt to say, “NARCISSIST ALL STARS.”
The look kind of reminded me of Eric Idle as the (now very, very un-PC) host of the Eurovision Song Contest on Monty Python:
She has no influence.
I do not fear puppets.
Except for Chuckie. Who was a doll.
Heck, I don’t even think Prince Charles moves the needle. Al Gore certainly didn’t.
Wow, I think your gauge is broken. Al Gore started something that is now geopolitically significant — the Climate Change Hoax. People are wasting vast intellectual and property resources on carbon credits (indulgences), “research” consisting of producing fatally flawed computer models (there’s tax money going into this, you can be sure), carbon sequestration technology, fracking bans (California, Colorado to some extent, and New York; also a handful of European countries including the UK and Germany).
If it weren’t for fracking, we’d probably be at war with Iran and the Russians would have control of Ukraine and be advancing their interests to the west through energy extortion.
I think maybe you’re not serious.
From your lips to god’s ears.
Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, NEPA, CERCLA, RCRA, etc? Hardly not “doing anything” . . .
Nonsense.