XR is literally an example of big business highjacking the movement so as to render it impotent, so that people are able to feel good about change and actively want to believe in the rebellion, without any real concrete changes in society or solutions - and by the time that's realised by the masses, it will be too late. It's a way of letting the steam out carefully on a pressure cooker without turning down the heat if that makes sense, it's an outlet for anger without providing solutions.
And Greta Thunberg was deliberately placed at the forefront of it so that people will actively want to believe, want to feel inspired. It's genius and it's fucking disgusting, and the idea that you can have a climate movement who's actions are decided by a removed leadership rather than democratically by its membership is the idea that's paved the way for green groups to become eco-fascists in the past. It's the New Labour of the green movement
@scottishwobbly
Would purging liberals more viciously help?
