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meadowlander

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15. If anything, her famous parents are working against her. I'm sure plenty of 19 year old Yale students

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 07:20 PM

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get a chance to "address the UN" as part of internship programmes, etc. and nobody gives a shit. Greta Thunberg got to address the UN on climate change when she was 16.

"Being addressed by promising young people" is one of the relatively few functional things that the UN accomplishes these days.

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