Why politics on Lichess?

Things are changing, and they do it on different timescales.

Some things are changing fast enough that everyone learns already as a child that they are not constant.

Other things change so slowly, that we can regard them with full right as really constant.

And then there are things that change on such a timescale, that people might think for several generations that they are constants of nature. If one of these things changes, panic arises and many people suddenly agree to renounce on many of their rights. Fundamentalistic pied pipers try to make use of it and start to demand basic changes which can easily lead to a totalitarian society.

I'm disappointed that lichess fall for this trap and are roped into the fundametalists cause.

Long live Greta!! Why are we even listening to cheaters on this thread? Ban cheaters from posting in forums. Thank you lichess.

Whoever believes a kid is invited to the most exclusive gatherings on the planet by the most powerful people just to tell them they are a bunch of criminals 'cause they're "killing the planet" and "stealing our future", should go back to school and start over.

Open your eyes, people...

P.S.: this thread is a clear demonstration that chess has nothing to do with I.Q. ... or, alternatively, that I.Q. might be related to chess skills while being totally unrelated to intellectual prowess.

If thibault says: „Pardon, rien ne va plus.“ lichess will be closed forever within seconds.

So, what‘s all the fuzz all about?

Greta Thunberg is just a poor mentally sick child who unwillingly got pushed into politics.

@AtomicChessSensei Now you've made me curious. What is your opinion on the entire climate change manifesto?

@Sarg0n The fuzz is about being free or not. I'd rather pay with money than was political engagement. But nothing is really free, isn't it ? Not even lichess it seems, so long at it pop up me with content not related to chess.
The list of "great cause" that need a good advertisment, this list just doesn't end. Violence against Women, research about HIV and cancer, War in Yemen, Global hunger, etc. I'm here to play chess, not relieve my conscience. If there is something to pay, just give me the bill and spare me the lecture.
This ad is a door wide open to anything else, not related to chess. So, I cannot recommend Lichess anymore.

The end is near.

If people leave only because of this special banner - good riddance!

Are people truly saying that the figures and facts Greta talks about are all wrong? I thought she was merely referring to calculations backed up by the clear majority of the scientific community o_O
The message is untrue because one of the messengers is a teenager?

@testaccount42 First, your solution to the threatening epidemy would be crazy. There would be way easier solutions to prevent the epidemy than an end to all cities. Nobody said we must be crazy. Facing the facts is not being crazy, but reasonable. Once you have reasonably faced the facts, you can try to find reasonable solutions, such as eg. cutting down traveling to affected areas and taking care of hygiene.

Second, the hypothesis of free markets as solving everything fails because (a) they exist nowhere, have never existed and will never exist (you have myriads of laws and regulations on what and how to produce and sell - it's illegal to produce crystal meth, sell plutonium to kids, to hire a contract killer, you know, no free market at all, why should the government allow the destruction of environment for the sake of economic freedom?)

and (b) because social or socially created problems tend to need social solutions, i.e. cooperation, and sometimes you need enforcement to get people to cooperate, because you need to create trust between people so all won't turn up free-riders and criminals.