Toot link; transcript:
Greta Thunberg could have, by now, carved out a very comfortable life for herself as a liberal grifter-celebrity offering platitudes about personal responsibility at Davos. Instead she connected the dots between ecocide, capital, and empire, aiming squarely at the heart of the beast. And now fresh out of captivity she downplays her own suffering to recenter the urgency of aid to the Palestinian people. No wonder she's hated by the fascist+lib coalition that rules this world.
Author: JP (@jpbreton@mastodon.social)
The conversations I’ve had about her when she first made waves were all the same.
Them: I can’t stand her, who does that little pipsqueeck think she is telling adults what to do?
Me: What does her age have to do with what she is saying? Does it make the message any less true?
Them: well… erm… I mean
The OBVIOUS takeaway didn’t have the “obvious takeaway” sticker all over it I guess ffs.
It always bothered me how back then people were all "well, I don't see her coming up with any solutions!"
She's a kid my friend, she's a kid using her free speech in a democratic manner to call for the powers that be to make change. She doesn't need to have the answers, that's not her job. Why are you expecting a child to do the work of adults? Fucking expect more from the adults that are doing fuck all to accomplish anything but fatten their pockets and hollow out our public properties.
Edit: I'm talking about then, not now. I know that she's not a kid anymore.
This really makes my past thoughts about her make sense. I was kind of weirded out by always seeing her just crying and whining about things but without providing any real solutions. But 1. She was a kid as you said and 2. I wasn't seeing her solutions because the media always showed me her whining, not her solutions... Guess I was just easily misdirected. I'm glad she's a freedom fighter woman now.
Honestly, props to you. We're all victims of propaganda, seeing as it's pumped our way 24/7.
It's the embodiment of ad hominem. She can't be right because she's (was) a kid.