You know lemmy is better than Reddit when a post about Greta isn’t filled with people that feel personally attacked by a girl that is just trying to make the world a better place.
That always pissed me off so much.
Yeah, there was a time when non-violent protesters against societal ills were considered brave heroes. What happened?
The polar opposite isn’t necessarily better
He’s not talking in general terms, he’s talking about the Gretta hate train on Reddit, and I for one agree with him.
Even at work grown ass men getting all fucking butt hurt over her fighting to make the world a better place. Disagree with her all you want, even disagree with her methods, but this fucking persecution complex because someone young (and let’s be honest, female) dares to try to make a change is just so pathetic.
Fully agreed. It’s very telling. They get REALLY pissed and defensive.
What hate train? Reddit has millions of users, even if thousands say bad things about her doesn’t necessarily mean that theres a hate train coming for her, it’s still a small percentage of people who have their own opinion, regardless if you or me agree with them.
Just look at any thread with Greta in the title, all the top comments will be grown men whining about her, her methods, how she’s not making any difference, making fun of the way she talks or her appearance.
I don’t know how anyone can care so much about someone doing something they care about, but Redditors, uniquely, manage to get incredibly worked up.
I think it might depend how soon you look at the thread, and how you sort. I often find on Reddit people moaning about the deplorable mass replies to this or that, but by the time I get there, nine times out of ten the top comments are civil.
Ed: to be fair, though, I assume lots of awful nonsense on the internet so I tend to click past… So I suppose the civil comments have a survivorship bias in my memory.
Also, why are you complaining about people complaining? Should everyone, including yourself, just shut it when it comes to expressing an opinion that might be seen as complaining by others? Or opinions that might offend others? The hipocrisy is huge…
I love a good whinge, everyone does, but a reddit whinge in 2023 leans heavily towards right-wing, pro-capitalist, thinly-veiled anti-women rhetoric. I’m not seeing posts here get bombarded with the same comments over and over.
People are usually way faster to give their opinion when it comes to complaining. It’s normal, deal with it or don’t.
And yet you don’t see it here on Lemmy. The point is the difference in culture between the 2 websites.
What’s the difference in user numbers? Do you follow every thread on Lemmy?I remember seeing negative comments about Greta in Lemmy communities as well, but you don’t see me saying Lemmy sucks or is worse then A or B because of that.
Funny how your and most people minds imagine arguments to justify their opinions… have a great day.
You’re trying real hard to cover up the fact that you’re one of the people being called out.
Lol.
It usually is.
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
I won’t agree with her every decision nor statement, but I completely agree with her sentiment. After working for one of these oil majors, I believe it’s going to take a lot of public pressure to get them to do the right thing. They’ll do it, eventually, but the crusty execs need to be made to bend. My coworkers were all into sustainability and excited at new initiatives we’d hear about. It was the executive leadership that inhibited everything.
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Catching a charge for pissing off the oil companies and the governments they’ve bought, is something to be proud of
If you strike her down, she will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
damn i knew the briish were pretty shit but I didn’t know it was this bad 💀
Greta for EU president.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Metropolitan Police force said Wednesday that the 20-year-old Swedish campaigner was one of 26 people charged after protesters gathered outside the luxury InterContinental Hotel during the Energy Intelligence Forum.
Thunberg was among dozens of protesters who chanted “oily money out” and sought to block access to the hotel on Tuesday.
The three-day conference, which runs until Thursday, features speakers including the chief executives of Shell, Saudi Arabia’s Aramco and Norway’s Equinor, as well as the U.K.’s energy security minister.
The protesters accuse fossil fuel companies of deliberately slowing the global energy transition to renewables in order to make more profit.
They also oppose the British government’s recent approval of drilling for oil in the North Sea, off the Scottish coast.
Thunberg inspired a global youth movement demanding stronger efforts to fight climate change after staging weekly protests outside the Swedish Parliament starting in 2018.
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Mad lad just living her dream
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Not what ur mom said last night
First world nations will continue to use fossil fuels as long as it remains economical.
They will not give up a cheap source of energy for ‘the planet’ while their adversaries continue to use it.
To think otherwise is ignorant and foolish. What world do you live in where the US, Russia, and China forego even the slightest bit of economic progression (which leads to military progression)?
It’s both the cheap part and the “while their adversaries continue to do so” parts that are key. The price of solar and storage continue to fall and we need to make the true cost of carbon be reflected in the sale price on a global level. When that happens, we’ll be fine, for the most part.
I wonder how many shots they had to take before they got the picture they wanted for the press. Like this wasnt setup
Wait! You actually think that they use common PR methods to get as much attention to their cause as possible? Who would have thought!
Wait until you find out that Rosa Parks didn’t just randomly decided to sit in front of the bus but was working with the civil rights movement the whole time!
That is a pretty good shot. I can’t believe she’s 20 already! Where did the time go?
Oh wow - you’re a genius.
