You guys are all blaming this on her being young but have you considered: she's Northern European.
Well, she is 21. That's just not a lot of time to shake out all your brainworms. And often people go down one path for a while before realizing it's connected to something else and it's a while before they start to see the shape of the maze. Took me til... 26? 27? To fully break free from my USian programming and that was more the start of a journey than the end of one.
Hopefully she'll do better than I will but she's too young to write off yet. If she keeps on this she'll figure out that climate change, Palestine, proxy wars, all of it leads back to DC, and behind DC is fascism. If we're lucky she'll even drag other people along while she does it.
I'll also say; Palestine is a much easier issue to understand the large scale dynamics of than weird parliamentary politics in other countries. Really grokking what's happening in Ukraine requires a great deal of historical background of the 20th century, plus digging all the way back through the post USSR history of Russia, Ukraine, Putin, Shock Doctrine, the OUN-B, all of it.
Hopefully she'll get better on these things.
I feel bad for her because of the pressure that is put on her at a young age.
Word. She's been right under the media's guns for a long time now.
for real. at 21 my takes were so hot they would have ignited the atmosphere and killed all life on the planet, if
I get these Facebook "memories" stuff from time to time, and it's really cringy
I'm 21. Maybe it's a skill issue 😎😎😎
Reminder:
this is why Chinese political memes are so much better than western ones.
This seems very on brand for her tbh, did people really think she went full Marxist Leninst because she mentioned imperialism a few times?
Bruh, you were getting on a good track, what happened?
"Alright Greta, you've built up enough of a legitimate image with the Palestine stuff, time to get back to work"
Accelerationist Greta wants to quicken the downfall of the US empire smh
As I said in that thread (third most controversial comment smfh), her statement has wiggle room for lesser evilism. She pretty much said that Trump is worse than Harris and that this election is the most important election of our time. What is that but lesser evilism?
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