It took me a full two rereadings to realize this article is somehow trying to cast Greta in a negative light.
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.
shes only known for one thing, therefore she can only care about one thing. caring about two things makes her a hypocrite
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.
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.
"If we can't make the world perfect overnight it should just suck forever." - Hilary Clinton
God is in Her heaven, and all is right in the world
This one young woman just lives rent free in reactionaries brains.
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.
All the boomers in my life always said she was controlled by her parents.
Doesn't look like it to me.
waahhh how come today's youth have a consistent moral backbone and an ideologically consistent worldview???
Who'd have thought that climate activists might have criticisms of the system that is actively and willfully incinerating the planet?
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
What's the matter Brendan? Jealous because a kid stands for something and you don't ?
Greta's actually a full-blown adult now and it makes me feel pretty old.
That means nothing, I'm in my 30s and I've still had
types treat me like a rebellious childI'm in my 50s. I get it until I tell them how old I am. Then I assume they just consider me an idiot.
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.
Me actually in environmentalist circles: "Whole lotta libs here"
(To be fair, a lot of comrades as well)
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
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.
"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?
