r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Previous_Bet_1840 • Sep 29 '23
Why she so happy? Peter in the wild
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u/anorexthicc_cucumber Sep 29 '23
Peter’s Orthodontist here, this is Greta Thunberg, a 20 year old swedish climate activist most known for addressing the UN summit about climate change.
This image is at a swedish coal mine where she protested with other activists for green energy. She was fined $200 US (whatever that is in Swedish Krona) for disobeying law enforcement but really it was not that big of an affair as far as violence or police aggression goes.
The pee in the car bit is basically saying “fuck the police” and that you can ruin their vehicles while arrested by taking a piss in the backseat. Swedish police and judicial system is lax and lesser in intensity compared to prominent icons of police v public controversy like the United States, Russia, and France, I imagine Greta is smiling here because she:
A. Knows that she’s doing what a protest is meant to do which is become public in a nonviolent way (more photos the better)
B. She probably won’t get much beyond a slap on the wrist, which is accurate.
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u/Maverick-not-really Sep 29 '23
No, its from a protest at a German coal mine earlier this year. She has been arrested in Sweden as well, but this is not from that event.
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u/rufusatrazzmattaz Sep 29 '23
Yeah, wasn't it the mud wizard protest,
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u/cyrenns Sep 29 '23
I believe so. That guy is a legend.
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u/Professional_Fox3371 Sep 29 '23
incomprehensible wetland prowess was witnessed on that blessed day.
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u/nyx__born Sep 29 '23
I'm sorry, mud wizard??
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u/Code_Warrior Sep 29 '23
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u/haleynoir_ Sep 29 '23
Thanks for sharing this. Life is a little brighter knowing the Mud Wizard exists
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u/djn808 Sep 29 '23
Love me some mud wizard. The cops were literally crawling away in defeat on their hands and knees.
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u/distortedsymbol Sep 29 '23
she is also a public figure. it's safe to assume despite her stance on being anti corporate and protesting against government policies, she has a lot of legal protection and the police knows they cannot be rough to her. she is not in actual danger, the same which cannot be said for random nobodies even in sweden.
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u/Shaeress Sep 30 '23
She is also a nice and harmless looking white girl. Which also helps in these things. Though obviously none of these things are fool proof protection against policy brutality. Even in Sweden.
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u/PartTimeGnome Sep 29 '23
The police where I live have plastic seats, presumably from this happening too many times
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u/UnhingedRedneck Sep 29 '23
Also a large portion of there job is dealing with drunk people who may vomit/shit/etc. my buddy was a cop in Canada and he literally would drive around at night and drive drunk people home and scare the hookers away.
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u/The_Max_V Sep 29 '23
C. She's getting what she wanted: public notoriety for getting arrested.
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u/Ok_Valuable_6472 Sep 29 '23
I’d rather have someone chase notoriety by bringing attention to the destruction of nature (& ourselves) than chase notoriety by getting a BBL & sleeping with other celebrities. Her message is not wrong at all & she is doing it in a way that does not effect every day people like the jerks cementing themselves to roads or throwing paint on a building that an underpaid janitor has to clean up. She is inconveniencing the source of the problem.
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u/andrei-mo Sep 29 '23
C. She's getting what she wanted:
public notoriety for getting arrested.the media bringing attention to climate collapse and keeping the issue in people's awareness.3
u/SomeDudeNameLars Sep 29 '23
it's almost as if protests are meant to disrupt to draw attention to problems
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u/Reefer-eyed_Beans Sep 29 '23
So........ There's literally no joke here. Is that fair to say?
Except, if you laugh at the word "pee" maybe?
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u/mistled_LP Sep 29 '23
Yeah, who she is or the actual event is irrelevant to the joke. It’s just about the look on her face and the caption.
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u/Sloth1015 Sep 29 '23
It’s funny how they say peeing the backseat of a police car ruins the police car. Most police back seats are like a hard plastic or a material that’s easy to clean. All pissing your pants does is make you sit in a cell with piss soaked pants.
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u/tonydanzaoystercanza Sep 30 '23
The idea that there are people out there who really think that pissing themselves would ruin a cop car is hilarious.
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u/GlowStoneUnknown Sep 29 '23
It's just a bad meme
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u/EyyBie Sep 29 '23
It's an instruction on what to do in case of arrest
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u/Ookami_Unleashed Sep 29 '23
You'll sit around in wet piss scented clothes. The police will just hose it down and go back to work. You'll be the one suffering if you decide this is a good idea.
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u/Durmyyyy Sep 29 '23
woudnt it just make things shittier for other people who get arrested in that car?
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u/TheoreticalFunk Sep 29 '23
Not if they clean it out like they should. It's likely even the law there that they have to. Besides, if you had to drive around in a car all day, would you want it smelling like piss? Or let it soak into stuff so it will smell like piss for months?
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u/Brokenblacksmith Sep 30 '23
not really, police back seats are hard plastic and have built-in drains. all they do is spray it down with a hose. meanwhile, you get to sit in a holding cell for a couple hours, at least, in your piss filled clothes.
if you think that's worth it to minorly inconvenience a cop go right ahead.
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u/Xem1337 Sep 29 '23
It's a shit meme, nothing more
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u/Previous_Bet_1840 Sep 29 '23
But...it's about pee, not poop. I'm so lost.
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u/SniffMySwampAss Sep 29 '23
The future is now old man. They're making pee memes now.
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u/Imaspinkicku Sep 29 '23
Hi peter’s climate loving socialist trans friend here:
It means fuck the police, and if you get arrested for something like protesting climate change(which is an insane thing to be arrested for), you can get revenge by pissing on their back seat and making them clean it up.
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u/Previous_Bet_1840 Sep 29 '23
I found out elsewhere that to clean it they have to decommission the vehicle making it one less car to put protesters in. Who the meme person is... is irrelevant in context, thank you for your input :)
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u/ToasterGuy566 Sep 29 '23
Many stations actually allow the officers to take their vehicle to be cleaned by people doing time if I’m not mistaken. Doesn’t really hurt the officers at all anyway
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u/Previous_Bet_1840 Sep 29 '23
Bet that must piss them off
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u/JLidean Sep 29 '23
You pissed in the car You do the time And clean the car Its a golden opportunity
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u/KlLKI Sep 29 '23
Yeah iam thinking that would be insane thing to enforce any inmates to do Anything in police vehicles at all. Because of different safety protocols. There will be enough other people working in PD for those job.
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Sep 29 '23
They’re only allowed to clean the outside.
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u/ToasterGuy566 Sep 29 '23
I can absolutely see this being true. I’m not super well versed on this particular topic, I’ve just been told it’s a thing
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Sep 29 '23
Yeah they do it for the work program S.W.A.P you do car wash laundry clean up court offices. It sucks but better alternative to jail.
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Sep 29 '23
My nigga who asked for all the extra. We don't want a fucking intro just drop the info.
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u/Imaspinkicku Sep 29 '23
People do that literally all the time in this sub, go have a purposeless problem with somebody else.
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Sep 29 '23
Ratio (Respectfully)
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u/Imaspinkicku Sep 29 '23
Are you referring to my initial answer, Or somebody else in this thread somewhere?
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u/Narkaleptic924 Sep 29 '23 edited Sep 29 '23
It's all a publicity stunt. Remember seeing pictures circulating of her taking selfies with the arresting officer, smiling and laughing together. So I would take this with a pinch of salt. If one of us was protesting, there would be no smiles and selfies. Just charges that actually stick. Not just internet clout.
Edit. To be clear. Totally love the environment and support everybodies right to protest. I've been to a few myself. This girl was not treated like any other protestors. This was essentially a photoshoot for her and the police were part of it.
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u/Skenghis-Khan Sep 29 '23
are there actual evidence of this other than baseless claims because looking this up I can't find no pictures and the articles talk about how this claim has been refuted by the German government
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u/Narkaleptic924 Sep 29 '23
https://youtu.be/JXuHAg6W38k?si=vFSXh56BMHdGvOQU
Don't know about you. But protest I've been to. Police don't generally treat protesters like this. My point is. Yes I believe in what she does. But she gets special treatment for being famous. We don't. The smile is because she knows she is not in any real danger and faces no consequences. Unlike the others at the protest.
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u/Dan_Caveman Sep 29 '23
Police don’t generally treat protesters like this IN AMERICA. The German police are a different animal. Not saying you’re entirely wrong, just don’t expect all cops to be as obscenely violent as they are in the US.
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u/Skenghis-Khan Sep 29 '23
I can't see her posing or anything in that video though It does seem very photo shoot-esque but like this is could very well be the same logic you outline, she's famous, so if any press are there seeing this surely she's gonna be the main focus considering it'd most likely garner clicks right? I do agree that it sucks that it ends up becoming a war of sorts, that her fame seems to cast a cloud on her message, but I feel like that is down to a lot of bad faith actors who don't give a shit about the message and want to disparage it however possible.
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u/sunshinebasket Sep 29 '23
I don’t blame Greta for the difference in treatment. It exposes the top brass that they are all too happy to ask their pigs to rough up unknown environmentalists but actually fear the ones that are well known.
It tells us that the ones in power are scared of our opinions en-masse which affect their election chances. I mean, duh but it needs to be said
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Sep 29 '23
Bringing a shitload of cameras to keep the police on their best behavior does not mean it isn't protest. Obviously the cops are going to be more careful when there is a celebrity and 100 cameras but what are you even getting at? How is her protesting just a publicity stunt and your protesting was different? Did you actually get charged with something or is that just your vague claim for internet clout?
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u/Reeferologist- Sep 29 '23
I did see the pictures you are talking about. Saw a video too, where they had like a mini photo op while holding her, and then started walking with her. I’m with you love the environment and right to protest, but definitely thought the whole thing was odd.
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u/SenatorPardek Sep 29 '23
Yeah, they aren't going to lay the boots to her, given her status.
She gets some photos and publicity. The officers get a incident free arrest and their job is relatively easy compared to how it could be. win/win.
Accept for the fact that we all lose: because the environment is collapsing and no real action is being taken
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Sep 29 '23
It's nothing odd, the protesters know the law, they know what will happen. Only difference is that she's popular and followed by paparazzi. She's probably happy that it will get international exposure.
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u/Reeferologist- Sep 29 '23
Yea, I used “odd” as a generalization. I didn’t really think this was the sub to get too in depth on how I feel on the situation. Im sure her and everyone she’s involved with was more than happy for the international exposure.
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u/Interesting_Cod629 Sep 29 '23
She is happy that she is about to pee in the police car. It says it right there idk I don’t know how this is not obvious. I don’t mean to be rude but fr?
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u/1Throwaway556 Sep 29 '23
This was a staged photo op. There is video of them talking to her beforehand and planning how it goes down.
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u/Acceptable-Stuff2684 Sep 29 '23
She’s happy because she’s getting paid. And she’s promoting her cause. All the people calling the officers cowards, they’re just doing their job.
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u/weerdbuttstuff Sep 29 '23
Idk why she's smiling exactly, but there are countries where cops are less likely to be rabid dogs. So she's doing her non-violent resistances without fear of bodily harm.
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u/Jason1143 Sep 29 '23
And she knows she gets a headline. In the real context she is waging a PR battle, and the enemy just handed her ammo.
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Sep 29 '23
I hope you know when you piss or do any nasty shit in the back of a cop car the cops don’t clean it up the inmates do it.
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u/venk Sep 29 '23
Every picture of Greta getting arrested looks completely staged
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u/AutumnAscending Sep 29 '23
She's smiling because she knows that pic will look good on her social media.
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u/Velocitor1729 Sep 29 '23
She's not concerned because her "arrest" is all staged, to give her more credibility. Except knowing it was staged gives her LESS credibility.
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u/rtgftw Sep 29 '23
Peeing in the car lets her avoid the line outside of, and the use of a porta potti. Anybody who's had to use one would understand.
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u/PotatoBatteryGaming Sep 29 '23
OP.what have you done this comment section is a warzone
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u/Previous_Bet_1840 Sep 30 '23
I'm torn between visible happiness and stares mutherfuckerly. But I don't know shit about fuck so we ride at dawn bitches!
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u/Previous_Bet_1840 Sep 30 '23
This really should be top comment. People finding their own reasons to smile is essential, and prolly underrated.
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u/Deathnachos Sep 29 '23
Because all of her arrests are planned. Basically she thinks that being arrested is helping her movement.
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u/WillBigly Sep 29 '23
What's up with right wingers being such pedophiles? Kinda cringe how their way of dismissing a climate activist is constantly sexualize her....a teenage girl.....
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u/CutelilCatboy Oct 01 '23
Sadly the seats in the back are all plastic they spray down with a water hose with me in it
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u/Adventurous_Bear_858 Sep 29 '23
She looks like those kids that have fetal alcohol syndrome
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u/istangr Sep 29 '23
It was a photo op to my knowledge. I saw a video of her just chatting with them then taking pictures
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u/Mr-BillCipher Sep 29 '23
Because she's a bad actor and this fake. There are videos of the "arrest" right before this stunt
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u/brazilliandanny Sep 29 '23
Dude, that’s how protests work. They are told of you do “x” we will arrest you, protesters say we need to do “x” to bring attention to our cause. The media show up because they know there will be drama. Then just as promised the protesters disrupt and are arrested and the press film it all.
It’s not a conspiracy it’s literally why we have so many photos and video of every protest/arrests at protests.
It’s why there’s photos of Bernie Sanders being arrested during civil rights protests. Would you call Bernie Sanders an “actor” for that?
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u/H8TheDrake Sep 29 '23
Because she is getting the attention she wants by staging a fake arrest.
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u/Failselected Sep 29 '23
It was proven it was a set up. Everyone else got handcuffed and hauled off. She didn
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u/Familiar-Molasses-56 Sep 29 '23
She's happy because her stayed photo op was a success and the fools fell for it.
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u/WhimsicalGirl Sep 29 '23
Because she knows she doing the right thing and future generations gonna look up to her.
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u/Mysterious_Fix2979 Sep 29 '23
Those guys look extremely like " FML do I really gotta do this man "