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[–] 173 points 10 months ago (21 children)

They abandoned her around the time her environmental protests started being a little too effective. I mean disruptive.

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    [–] 147 points 10 months ago (70 children)

    Greta could have become a very rich liberal grifter.

    keep them Davos cheques coming in.

    instead she's risking her life to help those humanity has abandoned.

    respect

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    [–] 97 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    This isn’t at all to say her original stance was misguided. It is to say that she recognises genocide and ecocide come from the same root. Systems of power that destroy ecosystems also destroy people, also destroy planets, also destroy worlds. She is in many ways simply displaying a logical consistency, as much as a moral one, about the interconnected nature of the evils that plague our civilisation. And this is where she broke with a liberal class who see evils selectively and in terms framed and dictated by empire.

    hear hear! Too many people who love the “first they came for” poem who still think Palestine is a pesky wedge issue being used against their boys in blue.

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    [–] 71 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    She's not that rowdy little girl anymore. Now she's a fierce young woman.

    So of course they abandoned her.

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  • [–] 51 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    The liberal establishment always abandons effective fellow liberals. Sanders, Mamdani, Thunberg…they’re actually trying to do something. That makes the established neolibs look ineffective and upsets their donors. So they turn their backs on the rabble rousers.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago*

    The liberal establishment always abandons effective fellow liberals. Sanders, Mamdani, Thunberg…

    This is where there really is a distinction between "liberal" and "leftist" or "progressive."

    I would not call any of those three people "liberals."

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  • [+] 10 points 10 months ago (5 children)
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    I mean. To dismiss everything because one mistake, even if that mistake is massive, and then correcting that mistake, if belatedly, to me, says something very positive about that politician.

    even if it's clear that he's been doubling down on that mistake when presented with the evidence and then only switched it's become clear that the tide has begun turn?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    He didn't "change his mind based on new evidence", public opinion just shifted to the point where he couldn't get away with not calling it a genocide. The whole time he has always taken the most Israel friendly position he can get away with without losing credibility. Hell, in the very first line of his statement calling it a genocide he still insisted on repeating Isreali lies about October 7th.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    There's more, he criticized protests against ICE in LA turning into riots, and had some nice things to say about Kirk after he was killed.

    That said I think it's really unproductive for people to turn on him after he was a big spark in a movement and is still outspoken. He has irritated me a few times lately but he's still one of the most influential leaders.

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    [–] 36 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Liberal ‘leaders’ abandonment. There needs to be an understanding that leadership is no longer following the will of the people in the United States. On either the left or the right. This fact is more of a cause of why things are so crazy than anything the people are doing or wanting

    At least in the United States

    Also: Israel is currently a terrorist state

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago*

    On the other hand look at the Right wing Clowns celebrating the kidnapping of Greta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TX2tu6J0JY

    I may not like Greta, but credit where credit is due, She's brave. (Also Fuck NuxTaku you zionist pig, I heard your family is in Israel)

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    As ever, centrists are just fascists when scratched.

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    [–] 18 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    The term "liberal" is toxic. Liberal's are disliked by "the right" and by progressives. They are truly useless snowflakes that do nothing but virtue signal and sell everything and everyone out that threatens their convenience and comforts.

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    [+] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)
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