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Mr Sophistication posted an update 4 years, 10 months ago

Sunday Funday!
Here’s a bit of the lighter side of the news. Chinese state-run media fatshames “environmental princess”, Gretta Thunberg.

https://news.sky.com/story/greta-thunberg-reacts-to-fatshaming-by-chinese-state-media-12313438
- Mr Sophistication replied 4 years, 10 months ago
  No, that’s not a parody article. It really happened.
  - Voxi Pop replied 4 years, 10 months ago
    that’s what makes it funny
- Mr Sophistication replied 4 years, 10 months ago
  “”Although she claims to be vegan, judging from the results of her growth, her carbon emissions are actually not small,” said writer Tan Ge, who originally posted the article on social media before China Daily published it.”
  
  And
  
  “”It also accused her of having “double standards” in calling out China but not criticising the European and American way of life – the “lifestyle that pollutes the earth the most”.”
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  Chinese state-run media is a parody unto itself.
- Billy Bob replied 4 years, 10 months ago
  Let’s see, who’s gobbling up all that stuff China exports produced with all that pollution?
- HerrSchwab replied 4 years, 10 months ago
  Greta’s great granddad is Noble price winner Svante Arrhenius the European green house gas guru already in 1896, dont mind the impossibility to predict anything global-regional back in those days, he was also
  one of the top European if not the known western world EUGENICISTS.
  https://www.rsc.org/images/Arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf
  Greta’s granddad and both parents are film, theater opera “actors”.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius