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1) @GretaThunberg is Time person of the year. I was waiting for this to pull a news story of two days ago. Keep reading.

Greta is not a politician or an organized leader. She emerged as the environmental cause loudest voice for a combination of reasons.

time.com/person-of-the-…
2) There are individual gifts, of course. She is particularly brilliant and because she has a precocious handle on scientific concepts, also because she is less emotional/irrational as compared to her cohort...
3) She can shape her discourse with a deliberate use of emotional calls to action. That precise combination of mastery (and deep respect) of scientific evidence with the personal/emotional meaning of the cause is what made her so special.
4) The right-wing was not prepared to handle that. She is utterly impervious to insults. She usually ignores them and in the rare occasions she doesn't, she just makes fun of them.
5) That is what makes the RW ignorants so furious. For example, criminal mob boss Bolsonaro, Brazil's president, who can barely understand the basic elements of @GretaThunberg 's speech:
theguardian.com/environment/20…
6) Thank you Time: on our quest to destroy fascism, and that includes defending the environment, you gave us quite a win.
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