On 27 December, former kickboxer, professional misogynist and online entrepreneur Andrew Tate, 36, sent a boastfully hostile tweet to climate activist Greta Thunberg, 19, about his sports car collection. “Please provide your email address so I can send a complete list of my car collection and their respective enormous emissions,” he wrote. He was probably hoping to enhance his status by mocking her climate commitment. Instead, she burned the macho guy to a crisp in nine words. replied: “yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy@getalife.com.” Her reply gained traction to quickly become one of the top 10 tweets of all time; as I write, it’s been liked 3.5 million times and shared directly 650,000 or so, and the interchange became the topic of countless news stories around the world, from India to Australia. There’s a direct association between machismo and the refusal to recognize and respond appropriately to the climate catastrophe. It’s a result of versions of masculinity in which selfishness and indifference – individualism taken to its extremes – are defining characteristics, and therefore caring and acting for the collective good is their antithesis. “Men resist green behavior as unmanly” is the headline for a 2017 story on the phenomenon. Machismo and climate denial, as well as alliance with the fossil fuel industry, is a package deal for the right, from the “rolling coal” trucks whose plumes of dark smoke are meant as a sneer at climate causes to Republicans in the US who have long opposed nearly all climate action (and are major recipients of oil money). Thunberg’s takedown clearly stung Tate, who 10 hours later tweeted out a pompous video in which he tried to reassert his masculinity and status by blathering on in a dressing gown, with a cigar and a pizza box as props. Not long after that, he and his brother Tristan Tate were arrested by Romanian authorities in connection with appalling allegations of sex trafficking. Tate is a troll and a creep; he’s also alleged to be a pimp and rapist. Tate denies all wrongdoing. Tate is part of a huge network of far-right men online and he’d been banned from most social media platforms. Elon Musk’s Twitter let him back on not long before the tweet that was heard around the world. He was hoping to promote himself with his sneer at Thunberg; he managed to raise his visibility just in time to make news of his arrest and the charges international news. By at least one account, his Romanian-brand pizza box in his video helped cue Romanian police to his location. Had he not harassed Thunberg, the news of his arrest and the charges would not have been major news. He went looking for attention; he got it. Thunberg drily tweeted the morning of the 30th: “this is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes,” mocking her own earnest public image. So far it has 2.6 million likes. Beyond the entertainment value of what transpired over the past few days is a serious reminder of the intersection between machismo, misogyny, hostility to climate action and climate science, and the dank underworld of rightwing characters like Tate recruiting white boys and young men to their views. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg
What is it about this kid that triggers older dudes into wanting a SM slap fight with her? Is not wanting to pollute nature for non manly wimps?
Well she has a team of talented twitter people that writes her messages. U see her as a person she is really a brand and a image that is used to spread the climate change thing. her parents are huge into that and she grew into it. Perfect example of grooming a lot of these things, these changes are not overnight. They are multi generational that takes years to implement. I found it odd that she said the un climate control group was not for the best interest. She said the climate taxes is strictly to restrict economic growth.
Greta is just a spoiled little rich girl, flying around in a private plane bitching about everyone elses carbon emissions while she ignores the problem herself.
Meh, I've heard better in middle school roasting sessions. It was fairly generic and lame of a comment to be honest, only exacerbated by people's hate of Tate. It's all around goofy. Sent from my SM-S901U1 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
U I love that ice t/body count song where he said basically they don’t “”care if they are white, black or from mars, if they got a pussy they will fuck it”” that girl is ugly and I think she would the exception lol
(2mins)Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg criticised Germany’s Greens on Saturday for supporting the demolition of the village of Lützerath for lignite mining, ahead of a rally that drew thousands of protesters, according to police estimates. Making deals with fossil fuel corporations such as energy giant RWE – which has bought the site of Lützerath for mining – “show where their priorities are”, Thunberg said of the Greens, who form part of Germany’s coalition government, in an interview with dpa. Leading Green politicians such as Economy Minister Robert Habeck have defended the demolition of Lützerath, arguing that the coal below is needed to maintain energy security in the current crisis. Greta Thunberg slams Germany’s Greens over mining village demolition this time she's right, digging up carbon ain't gonna make it less