Outrage after Greta Thunberg arrested at London oil summit protest

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• florge@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tbh her being arrested just helps raise awareness. If the police hadn’t arrested her and just some nobodies instead, it wouldn’t be in the news.

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  • Syldon@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Without a doubt the intent. It is how she has won her fame.

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    • octoperson@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So what do you think is the plod’s angle? Is it a blunder? A flex? Or are they deliberately trying to lose this one?

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, that’s part of the point of the protests. You protest, you get arrested, you bring both attention and legal scrutiny to the issue. The kid went in knowing it was very likely. If a protest issue disruptive enough to get you arrested, it isn’t a protest, it’s a circle jerk

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  • synae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    FYI she’s 20 now, no longer a minor. I know some people will still call a person a “kid” at that age, hell I probably would refer to a random 20-year-old as a kid. But, I call this out since some people insist on infantalizing her so they can more easily ignore her- and her message. I’m not saying that’s what you’re doing, but depending on the message you intend to send you might choose a different way to describe her in the future.

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    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, once you start looking 50 in the old brown eye, anyone under thirty is a kid

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hell I’m pretty sure you can be arrested at this point for just being near a protest and looking at it the Tories are desperate to turn this country into a dictatorship. I have no idea why they can’t just calm the fuck down.

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    • crit@links.hackliberty.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Reminder that Labour has not said they’d remove any of the anti protest stuff, instead they’ll focus on other things if they win the next GE

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• realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why would anyone be outraged? She's a far left activist, I don't know why anyone would expect her NOT to be there.

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  • oroboros@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What the fuck does far left mean to you

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    • realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Progressive

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• Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If I was part of a protest in my own country and she showed up, I’d be likely to punch her myself.

  Her appearence and subsequent stunts to get arrested would just divert what little news coverage there might have been to center around her. Completely negating the purpose of the event.

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  • Syldon@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The climate issues we are suffering are not just restricted to the UK borders. She has just as much right to complain as we do. We as a country do not have the right to destroy the planet.

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    • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I know it’s not.

      But when Greta shows up, it’s all about her and not the protest anymore.

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yikes, violence against those you disagree with. You’re a cool protester

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    • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah, just hyperbole.

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  • Auzy@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So are you joking about assaulting her, or are you actually saying you’d do it?

    At best, that’s a fairly toxic comment which doesn’t belong here

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    • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hyperbole isn’t joking. It’s exaggeration.

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  • withabeard@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Funny … I only know about the protest because she was there and arrested.

    Funny … you’re bothering to promote her acts by commenting on social media about it.

    Go sit in the corner rude boy.

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    • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sounds more like maybe you just aren’t that interested in all the environment stuff.

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