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

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  1. Nightmare515

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    Not to be funny or rude but is something "wrong" with her? I've seen clips of her speaking and her speech patterns and mannerisms and facial expressions seem "off" a bit. I'm not sure if it's the accent or that's how folks are in her culture or something or if she has some sort of disorder.

    I only ask because a lot of folks are angry at her parents for this whole thing and think it's the adults in her life pushing her into the spotlight like this. I mean yeah shes a kid but shes 16 as well shes not exactly a little kid. Shes obviously being coached along by adults for a lot of this and much of it is likely her having a genuine concern herself and wanting to do something. But if she has some sort of disorder and her parents are pushing her to do this sort of stuff then they should be ashamed of themselves.
     
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    When you have a reserved seat, then you have a seat. Its that easy.
     
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    Im young myself, travel regulary with train and nobody walks through the ICE and sits down on the floor.
     
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    Asperger's/autism is what the handlers claim; there is also speculation as to other conditions, but unsubstantiated so not worth repeating.

    The whole thing is a setup that has escalated into a full-blown professional lobbying organization. I did all manner of "bad" prankish, offensive things at 16, saying or even being coached to say in public or private that people should be "put up against the wall," claiming that my middle class white "childhood had been stolen" or faking photo ops such as in the OP not among them. That is where this media circus ended, nobody realizes it yet. Don't worry too much about her, she'll be rich and cavorting with celebrities on their yachts, a feature of their parties "discussing" climate change for years while truly public interested, accomplished teens are ignored entirely. I don't feel a bit sorry for her, her crappy parents, or the celebrity-culture MSM redistribution/consumption machine that fuels the whole thing.
     
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    I don't feel sorry for her, I wish I could get all of this media money and whatnot for just giving a speech.

    What people like her don't understand is that she herself has inadvertently become the very thing she supposedly hates. Does she realize how much manufacturing is required to plaster her face on all of those Time magazines? Or how much energy, and with that pollution, is required for her now that she is a celebrity? All of the HD cameras that the media is using for her? The facilities? All of the folks that travel to hear her? Her recent 1st class trip on a train?

    She has accidentally turned herself into something WORSE for the planet as the result of all this. The best thing she could have done for herself and the actual planet that she cares so much about is to do what she can to reduce her personal carbon footprint at home and maybe within her own community. Her new status and her very existence now has increased her carbon footprint 1000 fold and I don't even think folks like her understand that.

    The best thing this girl could do is write a news agency and ask the public to leave her alone. Stop flying in airplanes to hear her speak, stop wasting resources to create cameras and microphones, tell Time magazine to stop using resources to print millions of copies of her face on magazines, etc. If she and her cohorts genuinely cared about the planet then that's what she would do because as of now she has become to very monster she is out here fighting against and I highly doubt she even understands that.
     
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    There are a couple of -real- things she -could- do but fat chance. Call up Scott Presler and get involved with his movement for one. They have a whole slate of cleanups planned. Would PO her own media machine and the other side that have been hating on her at the same time.



    But I have a hunch she's going to do a bunch more partying with celebs and threatening to put people against the wall instead. Just a hunch. Prove me wrong Greta. That's some crow I would LOVE to eat.
     
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    I don't know. She might but she might actually be genuine. Well as genuine in her thinking as possible while still being a huge hypocrite like the rest of these climate change activist folks.

    I mean she does have a sailboat that she uses instead of flying places I think. That's pretty dedicated. I'm never doing that...The UN Secretary could go on live television with 100% of all reputable scientists support and say that the Earth is going to turn into Venus in 10 years if we don't stop tomorrow and I'm still not taking a damn sailboat across the ocean from now on...I'm taking an airplane and if the Earth melts in 2030 then sorry kids you've got 10 years you better live it up.
     
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    Well she claims that she had a seat only for part of it. To be fair, she didn't say that she was on the floor for the entire trip but she is guilty of not telling the full story. Are we supposed to think that she was making an over-population argument?
     
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    Careful, she's warned us she'll "put us against the wall".
     
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    Some reporters found her car she was roving around in and it was full of garbage. Chip bags, plastic bags, etc etc.
     
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    Says the people telling us to listen to her.
     
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    ....while sitting in an uncrowded 1st class car.

    The level of disconnect here required to praise her praise of the crowded train while.....nevermind, I'll get get a brain cramp.
     
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    It's all hypocrisy and virtue signaling nonsense and people know it. The bad part is that while some of these activists know good and well that they are flat out hypocrites many others don't even realize that they are. I have an old friend from my hometown who is one of these people. She spends much of her day posting all sorts of things about evil corporations and climate change and Trump is the devil because he lets all this happen etc. She posts all of this from her iPhone X, in her air conditioned house, with her 4 kids, and only drinks bottled water because she thinks the tap water is full of lead or something. She buys the stuff by the cases too because she says its more convenient than getting the jugs and pouring it lol.

    Yet she genuinely doesn't understand the irony of any of that and I gave up long ago trying to explain it to her.

    The majority of these folks are pure hacks. I am more of a climate activist than the majority of any of them and I'm not even an activist. My way of life is way more conducive to preserving the Earth than these people with their save the planet t shirts.
     
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    Yeah but your a Democrat?
    Why isn’t Bill Clinton your pedophile of choice?

    ABC News Amy Robach never claimed to have Epstein pedophile info on Trump.
    If she did, ABC would have ran the story.
    Instead she had damaging info on Bill Clinton which got ABC to pull the story.

    Billy Blue Dress loves those adolescents...
     
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    I trust two indicators on climate, neither group "scientists." 1. The people I know and have been side by side with doing water-supply charity work for decades, mostly political opposites, but they know what they are talking about and it's not conflicting theories, but based on real knowledge, they get their hands dirty before asking anyone else to do anything; and 2. real estate prices, COASTAL real estate prices. Will start worrying when either of those buzz, not people who are lobbyists, live on government grants, "coincidentally" do green energy venture capital deals, celebrities, media or politicians seeking more power over the rest of us.
     
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    You not doing it is not the same as "nobody" doing it. And, I'm guessing here, you aren't travelling on the Eurorail, are you?
     
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    I don't really know what to make of Greta Thunberg. Some of the stuff she says and does seems counterproductive and sometimes silly to me. That sailing trip was a bit of a farce and I wonder if a flight wouldn't have left a smaller carbon footprint than that all the drama it caused.

    Still, I think she genuinely means to do good for the planet and I admire her will to do it. All I cared about with 16 was myself. At the core, she tells people to "listen to the scientists, not to me."

    I can go with that. We're circling the drain and I knew that before some 16 year old came along to tell me. I'm a grown-up. No need to throw all the hate at her.
     
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    The climate change hoax is bad enough when grown ups believe in the myth. It is even worse when some spoiled rich white kid wants to lecture people about it.
     
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    Dude, km not blind you know? People im Germany sit on their ****ing seat. And of course i dont travel eurorail. I use ICE when travel inside Germany. For evrything else aircraft. Eurorail is for working class drones.
     
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    Was the train overcrowded? Sure . she may have had a nice compartment but were there any people who did not? If there were then her picture is representative of their condition.
     
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    You see the train waggon is empthy. If it would have been overcrowded, people would be in the hallway next her.
     
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    May be "second class" was crowded?
     
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    Thats a 2nd class waggon in a Inter City train. You can see from the panels.
     
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    OK, if you say so. You know your trains better. :)

    So, it's a PR stunt from St. Greta. I think it's about time for the PR agents to find Greta a boyfriend. She is almost 17 after all. ;)
     
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    I am not trying to criticize down activism onworking to improve are areas, but so many Americans don't understand that "cleanup" or trash removal or improving neighborhoods does essentially nothing to improve Earth's climate.

    It is quite typical for Republicans to see a street beautify by removing trash, but essentially that is moving trash from one place to another. But its (relatively) quick and easy to do that, though, and people who don't go any deeper feel like they made a big improvement in our planet.

    But they haven't. It's like children who clean their room, but do nothing to end the dry rot, the mold, the joists up and below that are sagging prepared to collapse, and all the structures that need to be are needed for a healthy and strong places to live.

    The Trump trash cleanups are quick and easy, but don't help our children's futures. The activists who work to try to stop the rot of the earth we would like to keep is the hard work, the work Republicans want to ignore.
     
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