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[-] lapis@hexbear.net 111 points 6 months ago

It took me a full two rereadings to realize this article is somehow trying to cast Greta in a negative light.

[-] InappropriateEmote@hexbear.net 67 points 6 months ago

I get what you're saying, everything the article is hand-wringing about is in reality extremely good and necessary, so any thinking person's reaction is "wait, you're saying that's bad?" But the author's perspective was clear from the get-go with lines like "Forget saving the planet - now she wants to save Palestine" You can just feel the smug eyeroll. And referring to activists as "climate zealots" in the byline. You can easily tell that Brenden feels revulsion for the people who feel revulsion for the capitalism that is so dear to his precious little heart.

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 29 points 6 months ago

Also calling her a "queen"

[-] pmarcilus@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 6 months ago

Well, that's not wrong tho

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

shes only known for one thing, therefore she can only care about one thing. caring about two things makes her a hypocrite

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 99 points 6 months ago

Forget saving the planet - now she wants to save Palestine.

Oh no, first she wants to save humanity (and the planet) from extinction, and now she's opposing an active genocide! The horror!

Face the fucking wall, Brendan. how-compelling-flipped

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 28 points 6 months ago

Palestine is on the planet

[-] Pentacat@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

You can’t save part of the planet when you claim to want to save the whole thing. It’s like being a communist but having an iPhone or a vuvuzela.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

"If we can't make the world perfect overnight it should just suck forever." - Hilary Clinton

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

God is in Her heaven, and all is right in the world planet-hillary

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 94 points 6 months ago

This one young woman just lives rent free in reactionaries brains.

[-] micnd90@hexbear.net 84 points 6 months ago
[-] Mog_Pharou@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago

This emoji always makes me cackle with child-like glee

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 85 points 6 months ago

Palestine, famously not a part of the world

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 39 points 6 months ago

I guess the author wish it wasn't...

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

I wish the author wasn't

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 76 points 6 months ago

Greta is genuinely an incredible human

[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 65 points 6 months ago

She saw the truth at like 14 and then could not stop thinking about it. And actually did shit.

I want to be more like her.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago

It's not too late. For you or for any of us

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

All the boomers in my life always said she was controlled by her parents.

Doesn't look like it to me.

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 75 points 6 months ago

waahhh how come today's youth have a consistent moral backbone and an ideologically consistent worldview???

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 64 points 6 months ago

Who'd have thought that climate activists might have criticisms of the system that is actively and willfully incinerating the planet?

[-] axont@hexbear.net 53 points 6 months ago

I looked into this Brendan O'Neill guy. He's obsessed with Thunberg. He calls climate activism a cult and once mocked her for being neurodivergent. He's some right wing Australian ghoul

[-] hexinvictus@hexbear.net 50 points 6 months ago

What's the matter Brendan? Jealous because a kid stands for something and you don't ?

[-] jaywalker@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

Greta's actually a full-blown adult now and it makes me feel pretty old.

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

That means nothing, I'm in my 30s and I've still had maybe-later-honey types treat me like a rebellious child

[-] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

I'm in my 50s. I get it until I tell them how old I am. Then I assume they just consider me an idiot.

[-] chicory@hexbear.net 48 points 6 months ago

This level of slop makes me sometimes wonder what context the author is operating in. Like is this a Sunday night "oh shit I need something for deadline" or did they spend a couple days on this?

I hope this is Brendan quiet quitting. Minimum effort. "Greta is a land of contrasts" level shit. But, he's probably worked on this for awhile.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

This is like his 12th article pearl clutching over her

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 46 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 43 points 6 months ago

Me actually in environmentalist circles: "Whole lotta libs here"

(To be fair, a lot of comrades as well)

[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It is, unfortunately, the same struggle as all left of centre causes on that front. Glad to see some sense being spoken though (even if this article feels super weird and artificial? Maybe I'm scared of my own shadow now because of AI idk)

Edit: Apparently this article is instead written by a right wing weirdo who's obsessed with Thunberg so close enough to AI lmao

[-] roux@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

Edit: Apparently this article is instead written by a right wing weirdo who's obsessed with Thunberg so close enough to AI lmao

NPC at the very least.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago

Oh, we do stan a queen.

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 28 points 6 months ago

"exposed" has this ever been a secret? There's a reason green parties also support wealth redistribution more than liberals.

Anybody with two brain cells to rub together knows that we have a choice between capitalism and the future. And you're surprised they're against the status quo of just having capitalism for a short time?

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

what fucking article is this?

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

The upper-middle class recycling obsessive in Hampstead might seem a million miles from the bearded radical who publicly sings the praises of Allah – but they share an instinctive revulsion for capitalist society. One sees it as a crime against Mother Nature, the other as an affront to Muhammad.

Telegraph OpEd via Yahoo: https://www.yahoo.com/news/queen-greta-exposed-truth-green-163206621.html

[-] Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

jfc, not even recycling is safe lol

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

yeah recycling is woke unfortunately :/

[-] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago
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