By Jo Nova
Extinction Rebellion said “We Quit”.
After four years of “public disruption” Extinction Rebellion (XR) has decided to stop being a public nuisance and develop “relationships instead”. This is a group that prances around in doomsday costumes, and tried gluing themselves to the top of commuter trains at peak hour in London. (Furious passengers dragged them off.)
Extinction Rebellion has decided to be rebellious by, wait for it… holding mass rallies instead.
In the end, they said after four years of protesting, XR admit their failure: “very little has changed. Emissions continue to rise and our planet is dying at an accelerated rate.”
So for some reason, despite four years of costumes, chanting, and naked protests, the global atmosphere did not change. Who could have seen that coming?
Just another ordinary worker trying to warn us about climate werewolves or something.
XR were losing the popularity race
Activists with XR, which launched in 2018, became known for civil disobedience, from planting trees on Parliament Square to superglueing themselves to the gates of Buckingham Palace. Some smashed windows at bank headquarters and at News UK, the publisher of the Sun and Times newspapers. But the group became disliked by more people than liked, according to polling by YouGov.
The YouGov poll shows a third of the UK disliked them, a third hadn’t heard of them, and just 21% felt warmly about them. Basically, half the people who knew they existed didn’t like them.
When included in a list of charities, and ranked by popularity, the rebels saving-the-world were in 127th place. They can’t be happy with that.
Even though XR say they are going to play nice, Just Stop Oil and “Insulate Britain” have popped up to say they are just as committed as ever to civil disobedience. So we won’t notice any difference in public nuisance protests, just the t-shirts have changed.
Doomsday cultists who like dressing up still have plenty of choices.
Posts on Extinction Rebellion:
Keep it coming XR: Just some average Aussie naked people trying to scare the kiddies
Extinction Rebellion are run by paid activists — the £200,000 “grassroots” movement
Red Brigade photo: Gazamp
The mentality of the ‘new normal’ is a cause for concern!
How do they get these wacky ideas?
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Don’t blame the kids.
They were taught this emissions garbage as “science” at school – primary, secondary and uni. It’s their “teachers” who need to be locked up – along with the politicians who have been lying about it for over 30 years purely to pander votes.
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Never before have activists of any sort made themselves look so incredibly stupid/dumb/clown-like…
… and done so much damage to their own cause.
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Somebody must have pulled funding.
Who?
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George Soros
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This is the sort of anti-social movement losers join when it’s too easy to get welfare and not work, courtesy of hard-working taxpayers.
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That’s a broad brush.
There’s probably a few genuine welfare recipients and genuine losers out there who have more brains than to join Extinction Rebellion.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s quite a few teachers amongst the Extinction Rebellion, maybe a few Senators and MP’s and other losers who find it’s too easy to join the public service and not work courtesy of hard-working taxpayers.
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I’ve had a suspicion these types of organizations are used as a recruitment ground … they select out angsty malcontents and then among those select out people willing to do dangerous and antisocial things without putting too much thought into what the heck they are supposedly achieving.
Out of those people, the handlers can then find more work for them.
Shutting down one nutty front organization doesn’t make a difference because three more pop up. What is worth doing is getting court orders for damages and imposing fines for any damage they do. Sucking the money out of them is the quickest way to sort them out. If I get hit with a few hundred bucks for a parking fine staying an hour or two in the wrong spot then proportionally if ER halts all traffic on a major bridge … that should be a hundred million fine against all the people involved, including the parent organization.
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I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the purpose of many of the people starting up these organisations is to get good fund money from organisations such as “Open Society” and thereby get a wage. ….close down one and then look for another to start up….. keep the income flowing…
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Like BLM – at the end of the day they’re all in it for the easy bucks to be made and nothing more.
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A $100 million fine?
The woman who did it got “understood”.
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Like any toddler who is throwing a tantrum , if you just let them go they soon get sick of it when they don’t get the attention they were after .
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Really? Those toddlers “you just let go” grow up into these overgrown toddlers because they got away with murder from “obedient” parents. I’m more on the tough love “suck them dry financially and throw their sorry asses in jail” bandwagon.
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Perhaps a daily 10-second tasing, at, say, 8AM, for a week, so they come to expect it?
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Medicine previously had a term for these characters – “lunatics”.
And a treatment- incarceration in a lunatic asylum.
How sad that psychiatry has become so woke!
(Sarcasm alert).
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No surprisingly, it was woke Leftist Obama who had the remaining vestiges of the word lunatic removed from US Federal legislation.
Ref: Wikipedia
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The introduction of anti-psychotic drugs allowed many people to be removed from psychiatric asylums. But there are still many people that are either non-compliant with taking medications or who should never have been removed from such places.
Desinstitutionalisation put many people “on the streets” to cause crimes or other anti-social behaviours or become high-maintenance welfare cases. Such people would be better kept in institutions for their own good and the greater good of society.
And of course, the real-estate value of these places became quite high, coincident with the introduction of anti-psychotic drugs. You know, big acreages of land, close to major cities, with pleasant views etc.. Naturally that had nothing to do with any closures….LoL.
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I used to work with a psychiatrist and he described it as “FITH syndrome”.
F*cked in the head syndrome.😆
Gotta love medicine…
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Here is a one minute video of Extinction Rebellion terrorists being removed from the roof of a subway train by angry commuters. That is how to deal with them.
https://youtu.be/9P1UXYS6Bmg
This is the way to deal with them, and in general any other Leftoids engaging in illegal anti-social behaviour. Fundamentally, there are like naughty, spoiled children and need to be told they will not get their own way continuing to behave as they do.
More recently, remember the Leftoid protest at the Porsche/VW Museum in Germany a few months ago? The protesters glued themselves to the floor. The management refused their requests for toilet buckets and at the end of the day just turned the lights off and walked away.
Sensible people need to stop letting these losers get away with it.
Stand up to them or they will destroy us all, as they are now doing.
HINTS:
1) If they glue or chain themselves to a road, tree or anything else JUST LEAVE THEM THERE. Continue activities as normal.
2) Do NOT communicate with them in any way or accede to their demands.
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…and video them for uploading to youtube so that others can laugh too…
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The Zoidbergs on farcebook banned me for 24 hours last year for suggesting just that* – leave ’em there, glued to the road / highway / bridge / whatever, and carry on as usual. If the planet’s dying, why not join it in socialistic sympathy… good riddance.
* For purposes of humour only.
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Or do what the French did when they tried the ‘glue to road’ stunt. The angry drivers just ripped them from the road and threw them over safety barrier out of the way, helped by the Gendarmes.
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I partly blame the MSM for their constant bogus and/or doctored details about climate. If we believed everything the likes of their AlpBC broadcasts we would do crazy things like them too. Apart from the criminal lies on Covid and vaccines, the media have published every ratbag theory on climate for many years. No wonder some people get caught up in this rubbish. A pity the media can’t/will not tell the truth is an utter disgrace. They are all push the elites agendas, as and usual it always about money
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Groups like this are a symptom of a species trending toward extinction, rather than the other way round.
Just sayin’.
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Expectation rebellion extinction.
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All his warming that the Stinkies complain about.
Did you know that Sydney 2022 did not have a single day over 32ºC during the whole year !
And the records go back to 1859 !
https://realclimatescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Image-2023-01-01-07-53-00.png
I remember plenty of years with high 30’s when I was a young Shire-boy ! !.
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Except that the Bureau of Meterology deleted all official records before 1910 because they didn’t fit the narrative.
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November 1982 visited Sydney and stayed in a motel at Miranda, it was a very hot week. Set off on day trip to Sydney and upon arrival at Miranda station platform noted everyone was crowded under the awnings absolutely no social distancing. While walking down the platform to try to find a space to join the “flock” encountered patches of the platform where the seal had melted and bits stuck to my shoes if I stood in them. Global warming BS was not on my mind nor in the MSM it was just a typical Sydney summer day.
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According to the press, we have only 77 years to keep the increase in global temperature as low as 1.5C.
Australia alone has blown up coal power stations and the people in Australia have paid for 2,500 windmills and millions of solar panels through the world’s largest carbon tax hidden in their electricity bills, as in the UK.
The UK uses no coal. And people across Europe are freezing and the massive food shortages are growing, undoing much of the good of the 20th century.
And according to XR the total effect on CO2 is zero?
Agreed.
So what’s the new plan?
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Is it possible to assign a percentage figure to that TdeF? I’m guessing it’s about 200% on top of what the electricity bill would be for power from a real power station.
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In general as every time you buy bad carbon electrons you have to buy certificates and the cash goes to the oppositon windmills and solar panels, 100% markup seems approximate.
It’s been a while but the Government department which issues the certificates electroncally has an annual report showing how many Large Scale certificates
and small scale (Solar) certificates were issued. And you can get the current price of these certificates from the marketplace (no marketplace is free if you are compelled to buy). It used to be about $A6Billion a year in cash and currently it might be lower, about $1.5Billion.
LGCs. It’s hard to work out but it looks like 52 million LGCs available for 2022 at a spot price of $70 would be $3.5Billion. How much is paid by households and how much by big smelters is unclear but with 10 million households that would be $350 per household per year of carbon tax. No exemptions, so the poorest, the people who pay no tax still pay their carbon tax.
STCs. Solar. You have STCs and direct subsidies for roof top solar and this means everyone pays for private solar bought half with public money from other users and again, paid whether the electricity is sold or not. And who needs all that power at lunch time?
What I find amazing is that even politicians seem to not understand we have the world’s highest carbon tax and it applies without exemption to the poorest people. So much for Australian socialism. Everyone pays for the good intentions of politicians to save the planet, even when Climate Extinction people are looking idiotic trying to stop warming in the middle of a freezing winter.
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When I looked at this a few years ago, the total was about $6Billion a year, $600 a household. We now have over 2,500 windmills and millions of solar panels all bought with money stolen directly from the public so the government could avoid having a ‘tax’. It’s not a tax, it’s government legislated and enforced theft, something actually illegal since Magna Carta.
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My memory was electricity was about 11 cents a kwh in the late nineties at the time Queensland was enjoying the Beattie Brownouts. Solar was estimated then, again from memory possibly discussed on Anthony Watts blog as about 70 cents a kwh. Current rates are in excess of 30 cents a kwh
Allow for inflation and 200% tax would be as good a guess as any for a charge to destroy your distribution grid and every family business.
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When did Malcontent and co sneak it through again – I think it was also some end of year or Friday afternoon back-door gig with the press conveniently looking the other way? Should be easy to add up the % increase in our bills from there and come up with at least an estimate, although the utility providers would have factored it in in advance as they saw it coming and they capitalised on it as usual.
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typo…. his -> this
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It is good to see the baby bolsheviks grow out of the nappy stage. Here’s hoping their tantrum stage will also be short lived.
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Or were so many walking away because it’s all just silly. In the middle of winter where millions are sheltering from extreme cold, to be pretending everyone is going to die from extreme heat is not worth the money or the ridicule. Cue Monty Python.
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The 3 main groups mentioned are all Roger Hallam linked and probably use most of the same protestors just in different outfits, they are different facades of the same organisation. The XR announcement is just a PR/headline grabbing exercise, the nuisance will continue regardless.
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The man is driven.
‘Hallam was raised by a Methodist family. He was previously an organic farmer on a 10-acre (4-hectare) smallholding near Llandeilo in South Wales; he attributes the destruction of his business to a series of extreme weather events.’ (wiki)
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I doubt you could conduct a viable agricultural business on just 4 hectares / 10 acres.
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Marijuana?
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In Wales?
Warmth & sunshine are necessary for that… unless he owned a large greenhouse, and then he’d have to pump in carbon dioxide to make ’em grow – quelle horreur!
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But it could be pumped underground, sequestered for the sake of humanity. Every little helps. Imagine, a world free from carbon dioxide. Plenty of climate and no life at all. Real extinction.
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Zion Lights was a leading member of ER until she had a heated exchange with Shellenberger who helped her leave and join him in promoting Nuclear Energy.
She now seems genuine to me and was a speaker at the recent CPAC conference in Sydney.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion_Lights
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How long does madness last? XR should stop chewing on their own livers and do something uplifting like volunteering, thereby helping others improve their lot in life. Doomsaying is a death skill which only promotes gloom and misery.
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Saw a report on GB News where a reporter told some of these children that they were not funded by public donations but a Big Oil company – sneering laughter resulted. But, said the reporter, it’s here in your favourite newspaper The Guardian and he read the information to them. The look of confusion and ‘does not compute’ on their faces was priceless.
That they have decided to quit is probably nothing to do with this report but I’d like to think it did.
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Here, we saw commuters on the tube taking the vandals on, dragging themselves off trains in a way that the “officials” daren’t for fear of being called heavy handed bullies. For those who haven’t seen this video, it might be just stop oil but they’re still rent a mob and probably made of the same individual members. Maybe some didn’t see it:
https://twitter.com/dantypo/status/1598063804252033024?s=20&t=AYqOq48wFZZto3iJhwK52g
this was cathartic.
All over the world, normal people with a functioning moral compass have been taking action.
I thought some of this was only happening in the UK, so the media wants us to think we’re alone.
Probably the same in every western country. ..make us think we’re fighting a losing battle, that resistance is useless.
Happy New Year everybody!
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The founder of radical climate activist group Extinction Rebellion has admitted that she drives a diesel car.
Dr Gail Bradbrook, 49, who helped to set up the protest group in 2018, made the revelation in an angry interview with TalkRadio presenter Cristo Foufas on Monday.
After revealing that she drives a car, she admitted that she does not own an electric vehicle because she cannot afford one.
When pressed further by Foufas about what type of car it was, she admitted it is powered by diesel, which is considered by experts to be even more harmful to the environment than petrol.
She said that she needs the car to take her children to football and rugby fixtures because her home is not served by ‘buses that run on a Sunday.’
The exchange then became more tempestuous when Foufas branded her a ‘hypocrite’ and she responded by calling him a ‘boring interviewer’.
Molecular biologist Dr Bradbrook was previously criticised for flying 11,000 miles to Costa Rica in 2016 to stay at the £2,500 luxury New Life Iboga resort.
She claimed in today’s interview that she flew to the island because of a health issue which could not be dealt with in the UK.
She said: ‘You can definitely find things about my life, I’ve spent a lot of money on my house, put solar panels on it, I had to take insulation and re-insert it.
When asked by Foufas if it was electric, she said: ‘No, because I can’t afford it. But if somebody wants to give me £5,000 you can convert my car to electric and I don’t have the money at the minute.
Asked what car she drives, she said: ‘It was claimed to be a really green car at the time when I bought it… it is a diesel car.’
A shocked Foufas then said diesels are ‘terrible’ for the environment, prompting Dr Bradbrook, who lives in Staffordshire, to defend herself.
‘Wouldn’t it be great if some of us could put our cars into community ownership. Get them converted to electric,’ she said.
‘So if anyone wants my car and they can pay for it to be converted to electric and other people can share it they are very welcome.
Anyone surprised by the nonsense and hypocrisy?
“Convert her diesel to electric”
“Re-insert insulation”?
She hasn’t got the money and wants people to pay for it for her.
A crazy old chook as loopy as Biden…
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Are these pranks just social outings? Do they join XR as others would a choir, debating society or sporting club and for the same reasons?
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I would wager there are some lonely types craving friendship, a sense of purpose. Others just tag along with friends, others join probably to impress potential/actual love interests, some are angry and like to find some “legitimacy” for their anger …in short I think it’s “glad” bag
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Won’t be surprised if these 3 organizations are linked and actually the same faces of a multi-faceted monster, with all of this fanfare just another publicity stunt – these self-indulgent types who run these scams do not really care what the public thinks as long as they can make their bucks – in their own minds they know better than the common proletariat in any case.
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Drugs. Especially wacky baccy. The scourge of our times, IMO, and the cause of much mental illness among today’s young people, many of whom start using it in their early teens, thus completely messing up their brains.
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Add to this the constant barrage of apocalyptic messages thrown at them through the TV and online, the potentially damaging effects of social media, the mind games played upon them in school (where they are even encouraged to question their own biology), the fear sown amongst young women told they live in a society controlled by evil men who will probably rape them at some point …
Seriously, throw cheap drugs into this mix and is it any surprise that mental illness is seemingly so common in the under 30s?
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It’s certainly not harmless as claimed.
Plus due to intense selective breeding by small-time drug entrepreneurs or even genetic engineering (by hostile parties wanting to weaken the West?), the strength of what is available to youth now is hugely greater than what was available to their grandparents or great grandparents in the 1960’s.
I once worked in a major scientific laboratory and one of the scientists there was known to be a regular “user”. It was apparent that as time went on his mental acuity was becoming duller and duller and he eventually obtained permanent “brain fog”.
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I experienced a young man who had regularly used marijuana since he was a teenager, he had major mental problems including a belief that when he was on a high it was caused by a sea creature that entered his brain via an ear while surfing in Indonesia, he was violent at times and suffered from epilepetic seizures sometimes requiring hospital treatment.
He would explain in between times how a wonderful doctor in Sydney had finally isolated his brain “tick” and was providing treatment, I referred to it as his lunar tick.
We are not related but I had a lot of problems with him as a tenant including police visiting his accommodation after he verbally and physically attacked people who upset him for reasons known only to himself. He even attempted to throw his father off a hospital balcony when he was visiting to check on his son.
It’s a terrible situation.
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I went through high school with a guy who smoked marijuana. He topped the HSC (senior high school graduation exams) with a mark in the top 1%. He could have gained admission to any course at university including medicine or Vet science. But instead, he ended up delivering the mail. Eventually he got off grass and studied engineering – I think over a decade later – lucky for him. It almost wrecked his life and he didn’t suffer psychosis.
I get angry at people who claim marijuana is harmless. If you want to create a lazy, uncompetitive failed country, then legislate to make marijuana legal for everyone. Marijuana users are always happy as their life falls apart around them. I support its use under medical supervision where appropriate.
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For the small number of people who have marginal seratonin, marijuana is very dangerous and likely to produce immediate phychosis. I read no negative press about this dangerous drug, but it has wrecked lives.
By the same token, alcohol is a disaster for the 30% of Japanese who do not have the enzyme to digest it and I suspect no aborigines have alcohol resistance as there was never any alcohol because there was never any rotting grain nor sugar in the environment as fruit for example. Honey ants apparently, but that has to have a downside.
I find it amazing the the extreme socialist left who allegedly care so much about the environment care nothing for the real health of people at risk, everyone from marijuana and Australian aborigines from alcohol. And 1.5C in warming is no risk to anyone. It is far less than the temperature difference from one side of a tree to the other. Hardly a question of extinction. More a question of attention seeking poseurs. The absurd pantomime costumes and makeup indicate that clearly.
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I can imagine the leftist activist eco-workshop for the outfits. What about blood red? Great idea. But white faces for contrast and to express death? Great. Just Great. Gloves, yep we’re firing now. As long as they are also blood red. And hats, swathes of material? Should we practice a few dance steps or postures? Great. Great.
Should we all be eating bugs? No, that would make us look like left wing nut jobs.
Won’t those conservatives who think nothing is wrong and the world is not ending take real notice now! How can they resist our choreography? Cue Monty Python ladies take on Pearl Harbour
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Hard to believe, human nature being what it is, they never managed to brew any alcohol from fruit or honey, pathetic.
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What were they rebelling against? Their policies were just a more extreme version of what every Western government and corporation, virtually every University, the mainstream media and Disneyland are already supporting.
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Yes. If you could resurrect the word “anarchist” people would understand what you were saying.
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‘All the world’s a stage’, it’s just theatre for these mugs, get a life wombats.
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They’re disbanding because they’ve found that the good pavement epoxies and glues don’t work well in colder weather.
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Dunno. I think perhaps they are winning. Their tactics are quite effective. As Jo says, 50% of those who have heard of them, don’t like them. That’s 50% who do, which I find depressing.
They are a radical fringe of the mainstream, so they probably don’t have to do this stuff anyway. These people and Michael Mann think exactly the same way.
But it must be sad for them, not knowing that the mainstream is actually on their side.
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Nobody needed a poll to tell us these clowns were irrelevant. Stop oil will go the same way and just as quickly if once they’re glued to a surface just put spotify on full noise just out of reach! That should be symbolic of how hopeless they really are. Or conversely be helpful to them like the French gendarmes have been and just rip their hands from the glued surface. Keep doing that every time they look for attention and they’ll become extinct quicker than XR’s flameout!
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I’m so sick of these vandals, they only ruin things! And notice, usually people who have a lot of free time do such things. Better go to school, work or at least have fun without harming society! You can watch movies or have fun and try your luck here https://smartpokies.com/ . You can get a good winnings. It’s much better than wasting your time on vandalism.
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Have a mate and his wife who are members.Perfe toy fine except about this climate stuff.They want to get arrested.
Also early investors in Sheikhs ethical investment fund.Have made a million dollars on paper.
He used to run a franchise business but it’s just like part of his b rain doesn’t work normally.
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