Climate change protests

[Car Boot 10]

An 'Extinction Rebellion' flag with its overtly neo-fascist symbolism.

 

[WiseOwl182 10]

14 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

Affluent middle class fascists are determined to impose their will on the rest of us. The lack of diversity in central London is shocking. 

 

Is Jon Snow watching? He'll be shocked to see so many white people in one place again. 

 

 

1 hour ago, Car Boot said:

Wealthy celebrity Dame Emma Thompson flew 5400 miles to join the climate change protest

 

https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/19/emma-thompson-flew-5400-miles-join-climate-change-protest-9262552/

 

"Wearing dungarees with an 'Extinction Rebellion' sticker on the front, Ms Thompson told Sky News that she was ‘proud and thrilled’ to be part of the protests."

 

She had flown in from Los Angeles where she had appeared on a chat show.

 

'Extinction Rebellion' obviously believes that wealthy celebrities only use planes in absolute emergencies, as Dame Emma Thompson did. But ordinary people going on holiday must be prevented from flying or using public transport at all costs.

The hypocrisy is delicious.

 

Edited April 20, 2019 by WiseOwl182

[melthebell 862]

12 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

An 'Extinction Rebellion' flag with its overtly neo-fascist symbolism.

 

It's also close to the none fascist anarchist symbol

[Staunton 18]

During the years in which neoliberalism prevailed, our capacity for reason was under constant assault. The market was installed in our schools, competition became received wisdom in the classroom via league tables and a narrow inspection regime that stripped out the humanities. Our children were denied the opportunity to learn anything other than the basic skills required by the low-wage economy. Families were exhausted by the ongoing increase in work-place demands and dwindling income, depleted of energy as they struggled to manage and cynically served a diet of high definition TV drivel and distress. The press became adept at provoking an emotional response that bypassed our critical faculties. That exhaustion and emotional overload has left us struggling to make sense of the increasing complexities of life. We now face a political crisis as discredited politicians go frothing and spitting into oblivion. But they have set a trap for us all - environmental devastation. As moorland fires rage here in Yorkshire and in Scotland, in April (!), we must seek to appreciate the message that Extinction Rebellion attempt to articulate, no matter their personality or their tactics.

[carosio 185]

The flag appears to be made out of man-made plastic fibres which are fraying and could be polluting the planet.

[Staunton 18]

I believe that the Extinction Rebellion symbol is intended to represent that sinister and terror-inducing item, the egg timer.

[hackey lad 3,937]

4 hours ago, Car Boot said:

Wealthy celebrity Dame Emma Thompson flew 5400 miles to join the climate change protest

 

https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/19/emma-thompson-flew-5400-miles-join-climate-change-protest-9262552/

 

"Wearing dungarees with an 'Extinction Rebellion' sticker on the front, Ms Thompson told Sky News that she was ‘proud and thrilled’ to be part of the protests."

 

She had flown in from Los Angeles where she had appeared on a chat show.

 

'Extinction Rebellion' obviously believes that wealthy celebrities only use planes in absolute emergencies, as Dame Emma Thompson did. But ordinary people going on holiday must be prevented from flying or using public transport at all costs.

To read poetry 😊

[tinfoilhat 11]

Just now, hackey lad said:

To read poetry 😊

I found out about that - on the front page of several newspapers, so job done really?

 

Adam boulton tore strips of some teenager but give the likes of Gove a free ride. It’s bizarre.

[Anna B 1,401]

Why are we discussing Emma Thompson's 'hypocracy' or trivia like whether the flag is made out of plastic fibres, etc? 

 

This is just diverting the argument about very serious issues. It doesn't ask why no other form of less polluting, but fast travel is available, and if not, why not? ) Or why other, better substances are not always used in preference to the toxic ones.

 

Why do people always launch into people who are simply doing their best to raise important issues that need to be, and should be discussed, rather than look at the bigger picture of what they're actually trying to do,?  

[ECCOnoob 1,017]

Because Anna they are important things that should be highlighted.  

 

Just because it goes against your own stance does not mean you can waft your hand and dismiss it. 

 

I feel that discussing the potentially massive hypocracy of this protest group and it's luvvie supporters is just as relevant as anything else

 

Are they using mass produced pound shop flags and banners made in a sweat shop in china?   Are their slogan t shirts made by some child worker in Bangladesh for tuppence a day?   Do they use any kind of fossil based fuel to get to and from these events   - If yes, they are part of the problem and have absolutely  no right to be preaching and disrupting others going about their business. 

 

As for our celebrity friends and jetsetters breezing in to show their "support".  Makes me sick.  

 

Personally I feel these silly stunts done more damage than good - particularly when the started disrupting mass public transit systems.   

 

Everybody knows the message they have been preaching on about it for 30 years. The majority of the Western world ARE doing something about it.  

 

We all know exactly who are causing the problems but I bet ER won't be seen causing disruption there.

 

It's totally obvious that the target should be the countries, regimes and companies which are causing the biggest problem.  But as always with these protest groups they have no balls to tackle the corporate world and just go for the easier option of disrupting the general public.   

 

[davyboy 17]

It's pity they got rid of Boris's water cannons.

Didn't see post 191

Edited April 20, 2019 by davyboy

[Staunton 18]

1 hour ago, ECCOnoob said:

We all know exactly who are causing the problems but I bet ER won't be seen causing disruption there.

 

It's totally obvious that the target should be the countries, regimes and companies which are causing the biggest problem.  But as always with these protest groups they have no balls to tackle the corporate world and just go for the easier option of disrupting the general public.   

 

Perhaps you could explain precisely who these targets are, and outline an effective means of challenging their practice and policy in such a manner that further global warming is averted? And please do give us some indication of who shall be tasked with this challenge.