According to TIME, the Swedish teenager and climate activist has won the award "for sounding the alarm about humanity’s predatory relationship with the only home we have... for showing us all what it might look like when a new generation leads."
Greta Thunberg is TIME's 2019 Person of the Year. Opinions?
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Texaskid1 | 67 opinions shared on Trending & News topic.
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She is a petulant child who does not seem to realize that she is being manipulated by the left. When the left has no need for her they will toss her to the side like used trash. I have heard her speak and as far as I can tell she does not know what the fuck she is talking about. The main she has gotten so far is:
1. because she is a teen girl. Many adults who are much more knowledgeable than her might feel squeamish about arguing with a 16 year old. 2. She uses the classic tactics that leftists use when they want to silence other people - they shame them into silence; " shame on you!!" , " you disgust me" , "how dare you!" It surpirses me how many people fall for this and remain silent instead of telling the radical left to fuck off. It is always funny to see the left yap on about how much they give a shit about kids and yet at the same time use them for political purposes. A few years ago they were using kids as pawns for "gender transformation" ( or what ever the fuck the left calls itself). I recall the media lauding parents who were dressing up their boys like girls and sexualizing them. The media put these parents and kids up on the Holy Altar of Progress. In all fairness it is hard to angry at kids because they really dont understand what they are doing. It's the parents that need to be smacked silly.
DiscomfortZone | 85 opinions shared on Trending & News topic.
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So, it appears TIME chose to act like a spoiled little attention whore and act like an idiot in order to create a controversy. Hooray. That Gretta has already proven that without her parents' brainwashing and a ready script she's nothing but a spoiled pathetic little brat in love with her own stupidity. The only thing more pathetic than her is you lot of attention whores who pretend like she's worth anything. She's done nothing for climate, she's nothing but a momentary celebrity in a generation of "instagram model" and a year from now nobody will remember she fucking existed. So keep worshipping her as part of your fake identity, it does nothing but make you a joke.
She´s a total fraud, and exposed herself as such when she recently came out as defending India´s right to increase coal, and also blaming "capitalism" and "the patriarchy" for all damages to the environment. Greta is a communist, and like so many other so called environmentalists, it´s really just a convenient disguise for trying to implement marxism. She disgusts me.
Keep in mind that she is only 16 and is likely just parroting what her parents have been telling her to say. She’s a child who doesn’t know what she’s talking about and is being manipulated and coached in order to forward someone else’s agenda, so don’t judge her too harshly.
@CarpetDenim There is a huge apparatus of PR people and environmetalist. marxists behind her. It´s not just a teen girl. As it happened, the first person to write on social media about her going on a strike for the climate, was the manager of a PR company, who also just happened to be promoting a book written by her mother and published around that same date.
She is just a teen girl though. She’s a child. She doesn’t know the influence she’s having, and she doesn’t fully understand what she’s talking about. She’s just trying to make mommy and daddy happy with her. It isn’t right to have so much resentment and hostility towards someone in her circumstances. Hate her parents, hate the groups that are urging her on and validating her and giving her a platform to stand on, but at the end of the day she herself is just a kid who’s way in over her head.
Greta is indeed a fraud, but not for the reasons you describe. She is an actress and political pawn. She has no real opinions of her own but is just being fed things to say.
I dont follow the politics of climate change but didn't she basically tell people to listen to the scientists?
One can, in principle, explain the frequency of extreme weather events etc. with the theory of Anthropogenic global warming, but that requires people to subscribe to the idea that computers can model the behaviors of climate system to begin with. Quite difficult to sell that to politicians in 30 minutes, because they need a simple number, a certainty in prediction of when things WILL go wrong, in other words, they need a Doomsday Clock, but this whole thing is... statistical 😂 Or you could do the Greta thing: yell at people about stolen childhood and tell them bitches to listen to le science.
I don't know much about Greta, she didn't make any claim about math, physics or statistics, so I don't really judge her. And then from what I read in this thread, people saying Greta is a fraud can't even agree on what makes her a fraud 🤔. I think if she parrots the science (and not just the politics), then she can have a career in engineering (I've talked to Lockheed Martin engineers who can't tell the difference between relativistic mass and inertial mass even though they had done bazillion of computations in special relativity). That way she's already more useful than the skeptics who parrot some conservative blogs and reject the conclusion of IPCC without understanding basic statistical modeling.
I look at her and I feel bad for her as a child. Used by her parents, used by the media , prodded on by the likes of time
On the other hand she will come to believe everything she is being told , including that she is person of the year in meaning not just for time... which is also sad.
Get off the internet and join the real world. You will find there are practical ways that can actually fix the problems we are facing if you spend less time whining and more time doing
You were the one whining, knucklehead. You posted this ridiculous poll. It doesn't even make sense. You are jealous of a teenager because she is smart. Sucks to be you. :)
She is not smart... She goes to a conference to the us giving a speech complaining more about she should be in school but she loves the attention so much she skipped school anyways, they are worse than gold diggers. And what did she accomplish? She gets to do her school year over, thats it. Cuz nothing is gonna change "global warming" unless we cut down on people. This has nothing to do with evolution or machines.
@Beta_Wolf We can cut down on people. I am kewl with that.
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nightdrot | 219 opinions shared on Trending & News topic.
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An uncharacteristically short answer from me. I much prefer that adults raise children than be raised by them.
Time has stood that on its head. The young lady makes a splendid "woke" calendar pin-up. However, as she has not even finished high school and is skipping school to spread her message, I doubt that she has much to offer as a substantive matter.
We live in the age of the symbology of symbols. When what a thing is assumed to represent matters more than what it actually is. The young lady is simply part of that trend - and Time is selling it.
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sawno | 123 opinions shared on Trending & News topic.
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I laughed at the people saying she now has one more thing in common with Hitler. Shows you how genuine the times is. I saw the people's vote on their poll was Hong Kong Protesters. So the real TIME's person of the year is the Hong Kong Protest, but they replaced it with a more corporatist friendly candidate by editorial decision that means absolutely nothing other than the TIME's not having any credibility.
A lot of you are saying she is being used by her parents, or she doesn't know what she is talking about because she has s disability. At the end of the day she isn't wrong, if we don't change now the parent will be screwed and the thing that annoys me the most is the people who don't care because they will be long gone before climate change begins to take effect, my generation and the ones below are going to suffer...
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MackToday | 234 opinions shared on Trending & News topic.
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That's because Time is owned by the same globalist elites that promote this retard and her agenda. They've got their eye on that carbon market and stuffing their filthy pockets at our expense. Pointing to the changing climate and shouting doom is the 21st century version of human sacrifice to the volcano god to prevent an eruption. The difference is you throw money to the globalist witch doctors as your sacrifice.
@tartaarsaus I'm sure they did all they could to appear at least neutral if it was politically necessary.
FakeName123 | 196 opinions shared on Trending & News topic.
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Fits perfectly into the left-wing media bias. That being said - who cares? It's not like anyone still cares about Time Magazine. They lost above 25% of their readership over the last 10 years.
Still, don't forget she and her parents are left-wing radicals and antifa supporters:
Only means what you perceive it to! It's just a magazine at the end of the day... The same magazine that declared Hitler man of the year in 1938! Not comparing her to him but the point im getting at is why let a magazine influence your opinions when all the information is available out there for you to formulate your own independent opinion! Be a thinker not a casualty of the influencer generation
Time magazine is a joke. They only put her there to increase sales. Every sane person knows this girl is a dumb psycho. She has no experience, barely any knowledge, and all kinds of mental illnesses. The libtards are just using her as a shield because she's a little girl and not an adult who can be attacked without surprise. Can't wait for her to go down un history as the world's biggest loser in activism.
Good for her. Im sure there's thousands of people who care enough about the world and our species enough to win such an award, but Greta was the one who went viral. Keep raising awareness about climate change!👍
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Jjpayne | 365 opinions shared on Trending & News topic.
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I hope it inspires a movement of kids to do positive movements for different causes
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Agape93 | 414 opinions shared on Trending & News topic.
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I support it. She’s an earnest young woman and is doing her best to help, despite most if not all, leaders disregarding or disrespecting her.
i was watching her at the cop25 and sadly i came to realize she is now being used to greenwash the masses... its so sad because her intentions are so honourable but when you see her onstage with 100 other activists at a meeting of world leaders who are all applauding all i can think is they have hijacked her to hide the fact new coal mines are opening , for every electric car 37 powerful suv s are sold and co2 emmissions are increasing even though we have lots of windturbines etc. its all infact one of the saddest forms of hypernormalisation i have see since the iraq war but ofcourse this time the whole planet dies
It is very sad. At this point I don’t think humanity will survive to the end of this century. Rising sea levels, crop failures, droughts, more severe weather, conflicts, diseases etc.
my only true hope is that with all the protests we all rise up globally and kill the lot of them before they kill us but again hypernormalisation is a hard concept to fight
Indeed it is. A lot of people, at minimum, are going to die because of them and those who are too stupid/spineless/supportive of them. They got their pound of flesh, and I will too if need be when shtf.
Makes me angry to say the least. Fuckig retards. I hope that humanity gets wiped out by a meteor or something of sort. The level of retardation on this planet is mind boggling.
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supercutebutt | 63 opinions shared on Trending & News topic.
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Greta is awesome.Greta rox!
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douride2 | 320 opinions shared on Trending & News topic.
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When she goes after the big polluters like India Russia & don't forget about the U. S. She will have accomplished something.
I feel like I answered this question somewhere else already. Apparently it was going to be either her or Nancy Pelosi. Does that make you feel any better?
I wonder how she will cope when she sinks back into obscurity, which is inevitable, and only has real life to contend with and a lack of education to go with it.
It is what I fear will be the case, with her taking a year out and developing a taste for being in the limelight. She may well find it hard to go back and to get back into a normal and routine life of study. I may be wrong, time will tell.
Acting hysterical and telling people to listen to scientists instead of what their political party tells them. That's about as far as I could watch of the video of her speech, something about her childhood being stolen. Needless to say, that triggers many people.
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