People on my Facebook are getting very irritated with me for pointing out inconvenient facts about Greta's lack of impact here.

They really really really really want to believe that they're celebrating the victory of a young, innocent climate activist over an obnoxious, toxic hypermasculine bully.

It gets liberals very upset when you ruin their chance to virtue signal. They want this moment to take a victory lap -- and show how sensitive they are by celebrating Thurnberg's supposed ownership of Tate here.

When you first hit them with the news that her PR firm probably wrote it, followed by the fact that Tate openly posted about being in Romania days before the Thurnberg feud, it kills the entire feelgood story (aside from the fact that he really was arrested).

This reminds me of when liberals on Facebook were attempting to do false checkins to confuse the police in South Dakota, when a rumor went around that the police were using people's checkins at a pipeline protest to locate and arrest them. It got like 1.5 million fake checkins. Everyone was patting themselves on the back and encouraging their friends to do it, when I pointed out that with 1.5 mililon fake check-ins, the mission was obviously already accomplished (making it impossible for police to monitor), so there's no point to keep doing it or sharing it. This infuriated people who wanted to feel like they were part of the effort, and they were very nasty to me in response. Then it turned out the entire thing was a hoax anyway.

Remember, folks. Being a 2020s liberal means that you feel good about what you're doing, rather than actually helping with anything. It also means that a triumphant owning-the-right story is more important than the actual truth, because you can feel good about sharing it.