Greta Tankberg countdown: countdown

Edit: 170 comments doggirl-gloom

  • a_little_red_rat [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 hours ago

    I live in sweden and the divide on Greta is hilarious. On one hand you have reactionaries who STILL put stickers like "fuck you greta!" on their shitty cars, on the other you have lib climate activists who seem downright scared of her more based activism and talk about her "having gone too far" in hushed voices. Only ppl I've met that like her now are either MLs or hardcore anarchists. Imagine if she would join a marxist org

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      34 minutes ago

      Lmao everyone around me says her parents forced her to do activism and she's a fake. Real quiet now that the media has shut up about her because she criticizes the system.

    • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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      50 minutes ago

      I admit I am sceptical about her. She has this "trying to sell out" vibe, but I guess the ruling class doesn't actually care to buy her loyalty.

      • a_little_red_rat [he/him, comrade/them]
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        37 minutes ago

        I am all about kill your heroes etc, so I don't follow her and only hear about her every few months, and while I am always positively surprised, she wouldn't be the first to take a nose dive at a moment's notice. At the same time, I don't think she's actually trying to sell out, her shit is extremely unsellable ever since she dropped the lib "school strike" and went in with more hardcore activism. I think she might be genuine, and I say that as somebody who thought she was just a preppy kid back during her strike years (she comes from a well-off family etc).

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 hours ago

    Shit, Hexbear is old. I remember people here discussing how we shouldn't be too critical of her because she was still a child. Now she's a young woman and we still shouldn't be too critical of her because she's right. I hope the rest of the generation tries to emulate it.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 hours ago

      It's good that we were right about her longterm trajectory though!

  • REgon [they/them]
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    2 hours ago

    164 200+ comments? Did the dumbass libs find this post or are we having a struggle sesh about Greta?

    predictions for if it's libs
    • More than one person thinking they're "as far left as they come" and therefore assume we must be Trump supporters if we hate Harris. Will result in some comment like "your boy Drump"
    • The trolley problem from a person who has already had it explained to them how it's not a trolley problem if they're both equally shit, just because they keep saying Harris' isn't as shit
    • The trolley problem again.
    • The trolley problem again.
    • Following these last few days, no libs will engage with the people pointing out how Harris is as bad as trump
    • "Voting for third party is wasted"
    • Voter fraud (By not voting for Harris I am voting for Trump, by not voting for Trump I am voting for Harris, letting me vote two times)
    • "The genocide would be worse!"
    • One person admitting by accident they are fine with palestinians being genocided
    • Just immense amounts of long-ago debunked propaganda
    predictions for strugglesesh
    • "Revisionism"
    • More PPB deployed than if it had been libs (no way to know, but you can feel it if it happens)
    • She's hiding her power levels vs. she's not hiding her powerlevels
    • Devolving into another barely related struggle session
    • A bad joke about scandinavia
    • People talking past each other, one side focusing on what good she does, the other focusing on it not being at all enough to change-da-world-1change-da-world-2

    edit:
    It was the libs.
    A little primer for triggered libs:

    • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
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      1 hour ago

      "The genocide would be worse!"

      Okay, I'll be the lib...

      I haven't seen much follow up coverag, maybe this was a rumor. Apparently Trump has promised Adelson's widow a full on support for annexation of the west bank. That seems... Not good. But also not much different than current policy. Idk, anybody know anything about this?

      • REgon [they/them]
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        1 hour ago

        The thing about genocide is that the end point is extermination. The number is the same.
        Palestinians are being put in concentration camps right now. Kamala has promised to support more than Biden, she's just smart enough not to go out and say all the ghoulish shit.

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        13 minutes ago

        If the farthest Israel is willing to go is x, both candidates will tell Bibi "why not x + 1?"

  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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    4 hours ago

    I was like kid Greta as kid, but then turned into a lib as I got older. Glad she didn't make that mistake.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    5 hours ago

    Greta Thunberg has been the most pleasant surprise of recent history. She is amazing.