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Israelis are using photos of Greta Thunberg to shame each other over plastic utensils
Jewish Telegraphic Agency ^ | 10/6/19

Posted on 11/06/2019 5:27:14 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1

Israelis who are concerned about a warming climate have a new tactic: using cut-out photos of the prominent teen climate activist Greta Thunberg to shame their colleagues for using plasticware.

In workplaces across Tel Aviv, people are placing pictures of Thunberg, 16, in their kitchen areas next to disposable forks, knives and plates, according to Haaretz reporter Allison Kaplan Sommer.

Global recognition of Thunberg grew in September when she addressed the United Nations Climate Action Summit and spoke of the dangers of the climate crisis. She sailed to the U.S. from her native Sweden instead of flying, to limit her carbon emissions.

One of the photos, showing a visibly angry Thunberg, reads “HOW DARE YOU” — a reference to her U.N. speech, which went viral.


(Excerpt) Read more at jta.org ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: fakescience; humor; scoldilocks; verucathunberg
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1 posted on 11/06/2019 5:27:14 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

That would prompt me to take 2 or three.


2 posted on 11/06/2019 5:28:28 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Donald Trump's super power is his ability to cause people to reveal their true selves.)
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LINK TO STORY: Sorry was previewing and hit post on accident before including link. Israelis are using photos of Greta Thunberg to shame each other over plastic utensils
3 posted on 11/06/2019 5:28:58 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

...Because she so heavily resembles 1930s German propaganda? :P


4 posted on 11/06/2019 5:29:20 PM PST by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Jeff Chandler

All you have to do is look India and the plastic pollution.


5 posted on 11/06/2019 5:30:35 PM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

I’d have to draw a mustache on it.


6 posted on 11/06/2019 5:31:11 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

That’d shame most people right out of their appetites.


7 posted on 11/06/2019 5:31:25 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Who’s a Joke , Greta’s a Joke


8 posted on 11/06/2019 5:31:38 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


9 posted on 11/06/2019 5:32:35 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

How Epstein of them.


10 posted on 11/06/2019 5:32:40 PM PST by The Toll
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Would just make me lose my appetite. That girl is hogging all the ugly


11 posted on 11/06/2019 5:33:07 PM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Using a creepy scold to control the behavior of others.


12 posted on 11/06/2019 5:33:45 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: butlerweave

>>We will select someone who is intelligent, competent, thoughtful and kind; someone who cares about you and yours: someone who can laugh even when the joke is on the<<

Photoshop opportunity. Make her look like the Joker. She is already playing that role so why not?


13 posted on 11/06/2019 5:34:36 PM PST by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

I did not know that pigs were now considered kosher in Israel


14 posted on 11/06/2019 5:35:40 PM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

In that last pic she looks like the little girl in some meme that says , “Go ahead, eat the cake you made me cook for you.”

Think she was in some horror movie...


15 posted on 11/06/2019 5:36:07 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Lurkinanloomin

And a black eye.


16 posted on 11/06/2019 5:36:20 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Lurkinanloomin
I’d have to draw a mustache on it.

Yep.

A little toothbrush mustache like this....


17 posted on 11/06/2019 5:37:10 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

I thought the Israelis were more cynical than that.
But there is that contingent that reads the Haaretz.


18 posted on 11/06/2019 5:40:07 PM PST by lee martell
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Just turn that picture to face the wall. Scowling problem now solved!


19 posted on 11/06/2019 5:41:29 PM PST by lee martell
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20 posted on 11/06/2019 5:42:00 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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