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

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 148 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago

And a damn cool sounding band name

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

...or a punk band.

[+] [email protected] -182 points 7 months ago (13 children)

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 7 months ago

Classic fucking conservative psychopath; "yeah lock a nonviolent offender up for life because she hurt my little feefees"

[–] [email protected] 72 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 98 points 7 months ago (3 children)

And what exactly did she do to you? Hurt your feelings?

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I sure hope the dutch police are gonna provide us all with food when the famine comes.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 7 months ago

"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.)

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The person you are responding to is not arguing in good faith. I was going to say don't feed the troll but maybe it's better to refute the BS so unsuspecting people don't read them thinking they are correct.