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She told Swedish media that she will not be appealing the verdict.

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[–] [email protected] 232 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Let me get this straight:

  • Destroying the planet for profit: LEGAL
  • Peacefully suggesting they shouldn't: ILLEGAL

The law has nothing to do with morality, no matter what anyone tells you.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Nobody has ever claimed laws are purely for morality.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, but there are tons of people who believe something is moral as long as it's legal, and even more people who believe something being illegal makes it inherently immoral.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or like the line of a song goes:

This is not a court of justice, son

this is a court of law

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thomas Aquinas: Am I a joke to you

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I am afraid you have this very straight :/ I am so sick of our corporate-fascist world order. Big corporations are basically the worst dictator you can imagine, but with money dedicated to a PR department.

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[–] [email protected] 176 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Of all the things to be guilty of these days, that's a pretty decent one.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago

Disobeying the foot soldiers of capital is a core tenet of climate protesting. This is akin to charging a band for making noise.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

She's getting into good trouble.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Harriet Tubman was also a criminal. Just about every single hero was technically a criminal.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm sure if Harriet Tubman was active today, she would be facing the same sort of bullshit as Greta. Probably worse thanks to her complexion.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago (20 children)

her punishment was a 2500 SEK fine? They've just told the entire country that we can pay the equivalent of a new bicycle to block oil tankers, this is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dagsböter, though, so it is based on income.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Which sorta just makes it better since it'll be lower if you're poor lol

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

This seems like a very good trade.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Based and gretapilled

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sweden found guilty of failing to obey world's leading scientists and researchers' calls for immediate drastic action against climate change.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

arrest Greta Thunberg

We did it, we arrested climate change!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a South Park episode

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