I can’t believe Greta Thunberg won the person of the year

[Alvecia]

Hmm

I mean, someone disputing that they're posts seems more likely than someone disputing that they're good

So is your issue with the TIME award entirely semantical?
Is there a set of universal rules that all made up awards should follow?

[Salandriagado]

I can at the very least sympathise with Chokoku on this issue, because they have made a good point.

Greta Thunberg is just not the right person to lead this crusade against climate change exactly due to her incompetence and complete irrelevance.

I get angry when I saw her twitter posts. All those well taken photos with her shaking hands and stuff. Are you a REAL activist when what you do is to make Hollywood styled red carpet photographs?

Do some digging, and you'll find similar photos of Ghandi. Does that make him not a "real activist"?

[Prosa]

She’s a young girl making more of a difference than most celebrities and world leaders. The magazine chose her, and if you don’t like that then wait for next year’s nomination.

[Solanos]

I get angry when I saw her twitter posts. All those well taken photos with her shaking hands and stuff. Are you a REAL activist when what you do is to make Hollywood styled red carpet photographs?

Do some digging, and you'll find similar photos of Ghandi. Does that make him not a "real activist"?

Gotta love concern trolling.

[Salandriagado]

In your even less significant opinion.
How often have you started world wide conversations about important topics this year?

Just as often as Thunberg. Every leftist and their uncles have been yelling that the world was to end in ten years for the past fifty. She didn't start nothing.

Once again, you show us all that you have no fucking clue what you're talking about. The consistency is almost impressive.

[Ethel mermania]

Should have gone to the HK protestors.

HK is the big news event of the year.

Maybe for shut-in NEETs who want their Hearthstone treats.

Try that again in english please?

[Munkcestrian Republic]

I mean, someone disputing that they're posts seems more likely than someone disputing that they're good

So is your issue with the TIME award entirely semantical?
Is there a set of universal rules that all made up awards should follow?

person of the year is person of the year

[Alvecia]

So is your issue with the TIME award entirely semantical?
Is there a set of universal rules that all made up awards should follow?

person of the year is person of the year

It's the title of the award, not the criteria.

Should the Nobel prize only be awarded to people called Nobel?

[Solanos]

Maybe for shut-in NEETs who want their Hearthstone treats.

Try that again in english please?

Despite initial well-meaning, the HK protests have been co-opted by right-wing goons taking money from the Kochs and other shadowy fuckers. And in America itself, the support for the protestors seems to be dominated by basement-dwelling incel gamers who don't care about any actual human rights abuses by the PRC and more about Blizzard being stupid or whatever. Also they jerk off over the leather-clad rooftop archers or whatever cause masculine fantasy.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Maybe for shut-in NEETs who want their Hearthstone treats.

Try that again in english please?

He's implying that you're a young person with no job who isn't in school or training and never leaves the house.

[Ifreann]

The problem with Greta is that actual meaningful climate change activists get over-looked, and almost half of everyone watching this unfold just assumes climate change is even more of joke than they already think it is.
Memes aside: tHiS sAyS a lOt aBoUt SoCiEtY

Literally everything that she says is "listen to the fucking experts and do what they tell you".

But why doesn't she just put up posters in Switzerland?

[Salandriagado]

Which all these big, corporate publications aren't at all. Learn what neoliberalism is, you're in the perfect place for it.

Corporations despise the free market, and have for the past 130 years.

Correction: It dates back to the early 19th century in the US, with the institution of protectionists tariffs, and further still in Britain.

Which is why they keep lobbying in favour of it.

But Democratic countries are ALREADY REDUCING their carbon emissions.On the other hand, it's totalitarian or developing countries like China that are increasing their emissions.So you are completely fine that democratic countries bear a greater responsibility than China when it comes to reducing carbon emission?If we don't tackle the problem of China , there is no way that climate change can be resolved. And I don't see how the current approach adopted by Greta helps solve the problem anyway.

Yup, and screaming on UN won’t stop China either.

China is a road blockade on everything, it blocks environmental protections of the entire world, it blocks democracy from making its way into the developing Africa.

Sure it will: the EU & US can force China to change any time they like. China is dependent on trade with them. If they start punitively taxing that trade until China cleans up its act, China will clean up its act.

I am fine with people who actually make a change in our environment getting selected.But for Greta, she doesn't deserve it.

Want to name one person who's had more impact?

[Munkcestrian Republic]

person of the year is person of the year

It's the title of the award, not the criteria.

Should the Nobel prize only be awarded to people called Nobel?

think you're just being ridiculous now

[Aureumterra]

as I have said several times in this thread, it is PERSON of the year.

also i'm surprised you're not happy a fellow Scandinavian won

Race doesn’t matter for me, I was happy when Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Prize because he actually ended a war, no matter how much I politically disagree with him

Just as often as Thunberg. Every leftist and their uncles have been yelling that the world was to end in ten years for the past fifty. She didn't start nothing.

Once again, you show us all that you have no fucking clue what you're talking about. The consistency is almost impressive.

He’s got a point, what in particular has Thunberg done that’s new or revolutionary? As compared to the HK protestors and other candidates

[Totenborg]

All I gather from this is that the OP is jealous.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

Well I suppose they could have given it to Rudy Giuliani, again.

[Salandriagado]

Which is just a flat out lie that even you don't actually believe.
The fact that we are, yet again, talking about her now, along with people all over the world, objectively proves that.

Again, your personal views don't decide whether or not someone is globally relevant.

She didn't start the conversation, she's just its newest poster child. People have been saying the exact same thing for fifty years.

So which world governments were setting timelines for hitting zero emissions five years ago?

[Solanos]

It's the title of the award, not the criteria.

Should the Nobel prize only be awarded to people called Nobel?

think you're just being ridiculous now

In the words of an overrated Nineties singer...isn't it ironic?

[Alvecia]

It's the title of the award, not the criteria.

Should the Nobel prize only be awarded to people called Nobel?

think you're just being ridiculous now

Sure mate.

[Salandriagado]

Yeah, they’ve really changed the world.
Wait, no they haven’t.

Nor has this Greta chick. If we went with people who actually changed the world we wouldn't be having person of the year because world changing people aren't that common lol.

So how many world governments were setting timescales for zero emissions before her campaign?

[Dogmeat]

[Outer Sparta]

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Pretty much sums up this thread.

[Cekoviu]

This is an excellent blog post. What are we supposed to discuss?

[Aureumterra]

All I gather from this is that the OP is jealous.

How?

[Solanos]

This is an excellent blog post. What are we supposed to discuss?

Why the Hong Kong NEET Archer Brigade is automatically superior, both intellectually and racially, to that autistic girl from Sweden.