[malandrew]

Don't forget that a Facebook glitch a few days ago accidentally doxxed the person updating her Facebook posts, revealing that it's her father, Svante Thunberg, authoring her posts.

https://pluralist.com/greta-thunberg-facebook-bug-dad-svante...

I acknowledge climate change is a thing and should be taken seriously, but the left does itself no favors by manufacturing a petulant child as its messenger. You need messengers that are credible and aren't just preaching to the choir if you want to make progress in convincing people.

[pavlov]

Her primary audience is teenagers. She seems to be doing a good job of convincing them globally.

[yongjik]

It's more like the right picked a "petulant child" as their archenemy, rather than the left picked her. It's not a leftist scheme that Trump is engaging in a twitter feud with Thunberg.

The right ignored IPCC scientists, they laughed at Al Gore (for having a private jet - yeah I get that it's a very easy thing to hate), but somehow they can't do a thing to a teenager largely repeating the points already made (and ignored) by IPCC and Al Gore, all their usual propaganda tactics do nothing against her, and somehow that makes the right frothing mad.

I guess tasting one's own medicine feels awful. Shrug.

[gurumeditations]

“Petulant child”