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At some point, will old, right-wing men stop trolling Greta Thunberg?

It’s really gotten gross. I guess when your morals have been corroded by years of climate denial, this doesn’t seem so gross to you — but folks, it’s gross.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…
Worse still, it’s systematic. This is how climate deniers roll.
desmog.co.uk/2019/09/15/att…
Speaking of creepy old men, looks like Trump couldn’t help jumping in . . .
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I’m living “the toxic intersection of capitalism and money in politics.” vox.com/2019/10/11/209…
Fossil fuel interests protect their “great fortunes .... from government action to make them internalize the damage they’re imposing on the world,” because “we have more private money in politics than any other advanced economy.”
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So clueless.
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Microsoft CEO: "There’s no fossil fuel CEO who sits there and says, ‘You know, I’m just gonna deny climate change,’ if anything, they’re all saying, ‘Let us have, in fact, the regulation, the pricing mechanisms that get us to this future.’"
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52 U.S.C. 30121(a)(2) “prohibits any person from soliciting... a contribution from a foreign national. To solicit means ‘to ask, request, or recommend, explicitly or implicitly, that another person... provide anything of value.’”
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Steve Faktor
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With brand new epilogue: Dear Greta.

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