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Delicate diplomacy like screaming at world leaders to tell them they're abdicating their responsibility to leave the world better than they found it and instead incinerating the world for their own profit

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/11/greta-thunbergs-descent-climate-militant-pro-palestine/

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 4 days ago
>thuggish tactics
>pic shows her being manhandled by cops

pflp-octoplushie

[–] [email protected] 100 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I remember first hearing her name. She is singlehandedly one of the most hated people in the modern day.

All she did was say “I think pollution is wrong” and literally the entire human race united to gleefully pollute as a giant sticking-their-tongue-out moment to someone who just wanted to introduce basic morality to humans.

She’s always been public enemy number one. Her crime? Not being enough of a demonic hellspawn.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The media really is the barometer of how completely unsalvageable the capitalist US Western imperial empire is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As someone who's been to Pakistan which I love but the nation is absolutely abdominal, the humanity you'll see in Pakistan is still better than america. The extreme inequality in Pakistan is different from my home in Scotland so hard to see but it still doesn't hold a candle to skid row in LA. Worst of all? Pakistan just had a democratic leader for the first time in a long time and suprise suprise he gets couped by the Pakistani military which is a strong ally of America and deposed him for a dynastic oligarchs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

What the US does in Pakistan is just flexing. Pretty sad.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago

descent? you mean ascent?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"delicate diplomacy" didn't do shit so now she's about three months from joining some rebel faction in Myanmar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I think she also said something along the lines of being anti capitalism

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 days ago

the telegraph is such a rag lmao. good luck telling white people not to believe their lying eyes when they call a young norwegian woman "thuggish." us-foreign-policy works both ways

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think we need a comrade Greta emoji

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don’t think she was ever treated as a “darling” by the media in the first place. Maybe very briefly, but making her out to be an angry spoiled zoomer didn’t take long.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago

When she was 14 or whatever they could pretend to listen to her and platform her with no risk

When she became an adult not so much

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

and by "delicate diplomacy", they mean commiting genocide, flattening cities, and providing people with the gift of everlasting birth defects for generations to come.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah because the Torygraph loved her so much when she was only talking about climate change lmao

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

authoritarians love the old chestnut "brought a stick to a gun fight" with a chuckle until we all start showing up with guns

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

nah she's back on my "can't take seriously", she showed up at Georgia's ongoing Color Revolution attempt

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah this was such a lib moment for her, it was also of course immediately reported on by the establisment rags.

Disappointed, but she is still on the journey, going to give it a few more years. She has still consistently moved lefter from within a socdem civility both sides background and definitely has ended up more based than I ever hoped for as someone from a similar country. There is no left voices to hear at all so all the development has taken some actual engagement. Need to send her a pdf of Blackshirts and Reds or something.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Or that interview with MLK where he was all "Yeah so this whole passive resistance thing isn't really working and I'm joining the War on Terror on the side of Terror."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

As the only true lib on hexursine:

https://youtu.be/2xsbt3a7K-8

Around 19 minutes in he starts talking about how his "dream became a nightmare" and mentions another quote from someone else who said "We may have integrated a burning house." He mentions that many people don't have the same hopes they did the decade prior when there was a push to end Jim Crow because people are still living in poor economic conditions. He starts laying out how civil rights up to that point had been supported because it "didn't cost America anything." But the push for real equality would require economic changes and that's where he was running into the most resistance.

You can see how he had come around to socialism as socialism was the answer to racism, militarism, and poverty. Marching and speeches wouldn't be enough. The US would need to revolutionize its economy if it wanted to get serious about equality. He points out how white, European settlers were given land out west, while former slaves were thrown to the wind. So it's not like the US was unable to create a society based on equality, it just didn't want to. People only supported civil rights up to that point because of the sheer brutality of racism, not necessarily because they were against racism.

He was assassinated a few months after this interview AFAIK.

[–] unlogic 22 points 4 days ago

Because diplomacy, organised protests, and the like to nothing to change things. Eventually only shock and violence will make them listen. History says that critical and drastic change is often proceeded by violence.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

It's really funny to see how Right-wing nutjob accused her of being a plant by liberals to push their pro-climate change agenda and they now have to make it make sense that the liberal plant is openly speaking about the genocide liberals have been ignoring.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

from climate darling to militant pro-Palestine mouthpiece

Puberty hit her like a train. train-chad palestine-heart

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

We need Greta emojis

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's a joke she's obviously a lib

Do we need to start bringing /s tags back

That's also a joke in case you miss it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Do we need to start bringing /s tags back

That’s also a joke in case you miss it

Post it in memes then, not the news. I seen some similar threads way more serious before