Dutch police have detained activist Greta Thunberg at a climate demonstration in The Hague

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

Climate activist Greta Thunberg is among dozens of people who have been detained by police in The Hague as they removed protesters who were partially blocking a road in the Dutch city.

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

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- And a damn cool sounding band name
  
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- ...or a punk band.
  
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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.

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  Billion or even trillion, more like.
  
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- 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.
  
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  Check /r/europe threads about her.
  
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  She's an adult, isn't she? Why would it be "beyond sick" to find her attractive?
  
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I sure hope the dutch police are gonna provide us all with food when the famine comes.

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- This doesnt make sense. Climate activists are against farming, ranching, fishing, and feeding people in general.
  
  Unless I completely misread then ignore me.
  
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  "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.)
  
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  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.
  
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  Username checks out
  
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  You are not a serious person
  
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Greta is an inspiration

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- 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.
  
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the hero we need

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Jokes on then Greta is invincible to being jailed

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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

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- 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!!!
  
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- 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.
  
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- 10/10
  
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- The downvotes on this comment clearly are refusing to watch the evidence backed video you've linked.
  
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  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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  you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink
  
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- Sorry for the downvoted, this was actually pretty funny
  
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- For the people downvoting before clicking on the link: Youtube doesn't count views if you don't hit play.
  
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Fortunately they arrested her again after releasing. Now stop releasing.

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- And what exactly did she do to you? Hurt your feelings?
  
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  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
  
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- Classic fucking conservative psychopath; "yeah lock a nonviolent offender up for life because she hurt my little feefees"
  
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- 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.
  
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  What's a looser? Do you mean loser? Loser?
  
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- 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).
  
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  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.
  
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  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.
  
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- Do you need a hug? You sound like you need a hug. Like maybe your parents didn't hug you enough or something.
  
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- Lmfao go bathe with your fav 240v line if you're this upset about climate protests
  
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  As much as I think the person you're responding to is being a bit of a clown, don't tell them to go kill themselves.
  
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- Massive chud energy right there
  
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- Oh no, I can't clog the highway to go in the same exact spot as millions other people for a vacation, I will have to gasp take a walk outside and talk to people, the horror, the horror
  
  spoiler
  
  /s
  
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