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  • Climate strike but no cake for Greta Thunberg as she turns 17

    01/04/2020 11:13:57 PM PST · by conservative98 · 38 replies
    TheJakartaPost ^ | 1/5/20 | COLM FULTON
    “I’m not the kind of person who celebrates birthdays,” Greta Thunberg said as she turned 17 on Friday, marking the occasion in inimitable style - with a seven-hour hour protest outside the Swedish parliament. The climate activist braved winter conditions in her native Stockholm to continue the weekly Friday School Strike for the Climate campaign that helped catapult her to international fame. “I stand here striking from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. as usual ... then I’ll go home,” Thunberg, Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019, told Reuters. Read also: I wouldn't have wasted my time on Trump,...
  • Greta Thunberg Is the Perfect Hero for an Unserious Time

    12/13/2019 5:01:12 AM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 15 replies
    The Daily Signal ^ | December 13, 2019 | David Harsanyi
    Who better than a finger-wagging teen bereft of accomplishment, or any comprehension of basic economics or history, to be Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 2019? Greta Thunberg’s canonization is a perfect expression of media activism in a deeply unserious time. Has there ever been a less consequential person picked to be Person of the Year? I doubt it. I mean, Wallis Simpson, 1936’s Person of the Year, got King Edward VIII to abdicate the throne. Thunberg can’t even get you to abdicate your air-conditioning. These days we celebrate vacuous fire and brimstone. “Greta Thunberg”—the idea, not the girl—is...