Deutsche Bahn Train company claps back at Greta Thunberg over floor pic, notes 'first class' seat

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  1. Fangbeer

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    The more people there are on a train, the lower the per person carbon footprint of the trip. Doesn't her advocacy promote crowded trains?
     
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    Her statement was something along those lines and that because of this she didn't mind sitting on the floor.
     
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    Did you read the story I linked?
     
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    Parents using their emotionally challenged daughter who’s on medication, for their own political purposes is quite sick. And this incident is just par for the course. Like AOC crying in front of fake cages or the world elites all traveling to a climate change summit individually in their private aircraft. It’s all so phony and pathetic.
     
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    Yes. What did I miss?
     
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    You quoted me and fired off a standard rant about the left ignoring the facts.
    There were 22 replies before mine and no one bothered to look up the complete story which was available for at least a day now. None of these replies seemed to be very much left.
    So I'm asking you - what did you not miss?
     
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    How does the "complete story" (as you know it to be) change the fact that she was being deceptive by sitting on the floor for the photo and talking about the train being crowded when she had a perfectly good seat?

    What do you mean "very much left?" Do you mean none of the replies seemed to be by people who were politically left?
     
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    She is your hero . So who is getting yanked around ?
     
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    Why is anyone surprised? Elitists like this love to lecture everyone else about their bogus causes while they live in luxury. Phoney baloney is what they do.
     
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    So you've been there?
     
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    And she even complimented the railroad line for HAVING OVERCROWDED trains as they contribute little in the way of pollution and she was glad they were being fully utilized.
     
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    This was obviously a staged photo op, I'm surprised the media didn't set up a photo op outside the window with a couple of drowned migrants that died fleeing from the horrors of climate change.
     
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    Its not her fault. She is being exploited by those hiding behind her image. They put her out front so that those attacking the ideology are attacking a child.
     
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    ... Greta responded swiftly, suggesting that DB had overreacted to her tweet by inferring that she had criticised the company for running an overcrowded service.

    Contrary to their claim that she had spent the entire journey in a seat in first class, Greta said in a tweet on Sunday afternoon she had only been able to sit in a seat after Göttingen, more than four hours into her journey, and for the remaining two hours, before having to change in Hamburg for a further connection towards Scandinavia.​

    There we go.

    Washingtontimes.com is trump-right fake news.
     
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    She's like a little girl and people are freaking out. Certainly, a crowded train in India would have more people in the picture. So some fat guys, lots of them, are sitting in a seat and made some little girl sit there? Is fracking chivalry completely dead? Someone should have taken a picture of all the fat twits.
     
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    What's wrong with this picture? I am affectionate to my Daughter too.
     
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    You have obviously never travelled through Europe on a train. Had you, you would have known that it is customary, especially for teens, to leave their seat and wander the train, and yes, maybe even sit on the floor and watch the scenery.

    This is not quite the "gotcha" you were hoping for. Better luck next time.
     
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    1st class is an unnecessary luxury that takes up more space. They could fit more people on the train if 1st class wasn't a thing. More people per train = less trips, less pollution. Right?

    Plus I wonder how much pollution was produced to manufacture all that luggage this girl is hauling around.

    I also read that she took an airplane somewhere recently. Pretty sure airplanes are bad for the planet. I thought she had a sailboat or something shes supposed to use to get around.

    How dare she! This girl has stolen my dreams and our childrens childhoods!
     
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    Those bananas better have been hand picked from the wild without the use of pollution causing machinery and harmful pesticides. That fresh squeezed orange juice also.

    And that bread too! That better have been made in a brick oven with wood fire.

    And who is taking these pictures with that camera? Likely a smartphone. Which evil corporation mass produced that phone and is polluting our dying planet? If you want memories then learn how to draw. That's what folks did before this modern evil industrial society started killing the Earth!

    This one trip of hers produced more toxic pollution to our dying planet than I have in the past month. How dare she run around complaining, I should be the Time person of the year....I pollute less than she does.
     
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    And is that ham I spy in the lower left? How dayuhhh she! Doesn't she know how horrible pig farming is for the earth?
     
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    This is the exact sort of nonsense that irritates me with these activist folks. I have no problem at all with activists, whether their cause is noble or stupid, as long as they actually walk the walk.

    When I first heard about this girl I knew nothing about her obviously. I started reading what she was all about and I rolled my eyes but as I read more about who she was as a person I was actually very impressed. I read that she has a sailboat that she uses to travel a lot and I was like damn, I genuinely respect that. The girl thinks that planes are bad for the planet and unlike the majority of her hypocritical followers she actually uses a sailboat instead. That's pretty respectable in my book.

    Her problem, as with all of these other folks, is that they live and benefit from a society that they think is so bad. You can't complain about evil corporations when you are literally complaining about them on an iPhone. You can't complain about pollution when you are on an airplane or in your car or in your energy sucking house with the A/C on full blast because it's hot.

    I poke fun at Greta but the reality is that she is one of the more respectable of these types of people in my book. From what I can gather she really does walk the walk a hell of a lot more than the rest of them. She's still a hypocrite just like the rest of them and her ideology is hilariously asinine but at least she does walk the walk in a lot of instances and I can respect that.

    I'm not going to not eat my delicious NY Strip for dinner or not drive my V8 gas guzzling truck for her or anything, but I'll give credit where it's due.

    She needs to knock off this senseless "victim" nonsense though. I'm glad the train company called her out in public for this and I hope there is somebody with a camera there to do the same thing if she ever tries this sort of thing again. She also needs to not "out of context" say that we should off politicians who don't agree with her nonsense too....
     
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    Maybe you are being sarcastic, but please don't call that a "poor girl." She is the knowing, willing face of a LW propaganda machine courting HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS if not trillions of dollars, and also undoubtedly knows that there are real young people doing really impressive things the world over, and that she is not one. She and her family will be, if not already, multimillionaires when the fake "book deals" and "speaking fee" graft brown bag start getting passed around.

    I especially like the reports that she will be "taking a break" from climate activism after she made some comment about putting people "up against the wall." REALLY? UP AGAINST THE WALL YOU SAY? WOW!

    LOL, just another example of Trump's tweets being prescient, specifically the one where he suggested she should chill out with others her age.

    To the topic, good on that executive for calling it out. That man is a hero. I will wager he is being SWARMED with angry threats, insults, pressure from the tolerant, violent Left about now. Best wishes to him and his family, friends, company and his community who are almost certainly being targeted and inconvenienced at the very least.
     
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