• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    18 days ago

    All I get from this is how Greta is putting us all to shame.

    She’s fighting an unwinnable fight in the face of obvious defeat … a literal David and Goliath confrontation (and this time there will be no divine intervention) yet she chooses to jump into the fight anyway.

    GOP always pretend they could do the same but would only ever cower and scatter like cockroaches at the first sight of danger.

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      18 days ago

      I’m genuinely afraid for her life. She’s throwing herself into a situation where the last people who tried got bombed. The Reich wing of the world would love to see her killed and I honestly think the vast majority of us would shrug it off instead of riot. :(

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        18 days ago

        She knows this. She’s not dumb. I assume her hope is that her death will enrage people enough to do something. That her death will matter.

        I hope it will too.

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            17 days ago

            Not even just Israel. Saudi Arabia attacked the US on 9/11 as the declassified documents that Obama released showed, and the US proceeded to go to war with two unrelated countries instead, and the US is still allied with Saudi Arabia. Hell, nobody even talked about it on mainstream news, and the public seems to have completely forgotten about it.

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      18 days ago

      She’s doing what she’s been doing for the last several years. She is using the brand name recognition that the right-wing nutters have given her through their vitriol and using it to highlight whatever cause she desires to make people pay attention to.

      In a very real sense they have turned her into a powerful media weapon for progressive and climate change causes. Because everywhere she goes she gets ink.

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        17 days ago

        She’s been doing it so long that Elon was liberal and they gave her a car to use for a US tour.

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          You see he wasn’t actually liberal. He was kissing up to the people who buy his cars. He’s not interested in actual politics or policy he just wants to fuck with regulations to be able to do what he wants with his companies without any restrictions from our government. That is was and always will be the actual purpose of DOGE.

          I realized what a POS he is right during the pandemic when he had absolute fucking meltdowns about not being able to force his workers into his factories to build his fucking cars while everybody was dying from the virus in the first few months after it started rampaging across the globe.

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      18 days ago

      Not sure why but as I read your post I concluded in my head that it kind of makes sense because the only convictions they have, if it can even be called that, is egocentric, while hers are principled and selfless.

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      18 days ago

      Dude, I have to go work tomorrow. I don’t have time to fight Goliath. Maybe she can conjure money to live off out of air, but I can’t.

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    18 days ago

    lol this is a primary school grade reaction to something you are jealous of. He knows he never had and will never have a fraction of the courage this girl has at this young age so just lashing out to soothe is ego.

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    18 days ago

    Does this coult as a threat, warranting a visit from the FBI? What would happen if I was writing “I hope he’s bullet-proof” on a tweet about some public figure?

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    17 days ago

    This is a good time for one of my favorite book quotes:

    “You might not have more courage, but you should be ashamed to show less” (Golden Compass)

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    17 days ago

    This is what happens when you just can’t admit to the world that you want to kiss a man on the lips.

    Greta has much bigger balls than Lindsey.

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    18 days ago

    He could have said nothing. He chose to look bad instead. I think there’s a BO smelling fedora around here somewhere…