The climate activist is supporting a push to overturn the national election by the country’s pro-Western opposition
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg joined thousands of demonstrators who marched on the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi on Monday as they protested against what they say was a rigged election last month.
The parliamentary elections in the former Soviet republic took place on October 26, with the ruling Georgian Dream party, which advocates pragmatic relations with Russia, winning around 54% of the vote.
Various opposition parties each garnered between 11% and 3%. The opposition has refused to recognize the results of the poll, insisting they were falsified. President Salome Zourabichvili has backed these claims, urging the people to protest and saying Georgia had become a “victim of a Russian special operation.”
In an interview with Reuters, however, she insisted that she was not directly accusing Moscow of meddling, saying only that the “methodology used in support of most probably Russian… types is shown in the election.”
“Of course, you cannot prove anything,” she admitted, while pointing to “clear links” between the ruling party and Russia.
Once again showing the limits of understanding of a liberal worldview informed by western propaganda narratives that cast Russia (and China) as "authoritarian" and these nebulously defined bad anti-liberal actors while the west is cast as unquestionably good at its core despite openly supporting the most obvious and undeniable genocide in decades.
She's been good on Gaza lately but maybe she like so many in the west is doomed to inhabit an ignorant, anarchistic anti-war-ism that leads to the victims gulping down and vomiting back out western propaganda and suspiciously supporting a number of western uses of violence as "necessary".
She supports the Kiev regime too, so maybe just a dumb lib kid doing dumb lib kid things. Why does anyone give a fuck what she thinks? The western cult of celebrity is brainrot.
I see so many people stanning her on hexbear after the Palestine thing.
Libs will sometimes support Palestine (but only so long as they are being well-behaved victims; they usually don't support armed resistance) just like reactionaries will sometimes support Russia (they tend to do this for the wrong reasons though). Only one of these is not sufficient by itself. The real litmus test of an anti-imperialist is doing both.
Libs that support Palestine always "denounce hamas" too, so it's a superficially correct position at best. Libs still "both sides bad" the invasion of Viet Nam to this very day ffs. In their minds non-whites have no right to liberation struggle.
The Palestine thing was the first time she took a position that was categorically leftist and not liberal.
Up to that point everyone knew she was a tool for the liberal establishment, and it was safe to assume she was a sock puppet with no actual agency. When she started speaking out for Palestine it was clearly not desired by the establishment that gave her her platform, judging by the way media and talking heads covered (and often didn't cover) it.
So it was a hopeful thing. Stanning her specifically would have been a mistake, but the possibility that this one teen that the libs had invested so much celebrity power in might be developing class consciousness and turning all that power against them was something to root for. It didn't last. Easy come, easy go.
I felt like she was going in the right direction but the Western brain strikes again
She has always been artificial. Her parents ran/run a PR firm in Sweden. The pic that made her famous, her sitting in front of the school with the cardboard sign was taken by her parents and posted by them.
It's funny how liberals anointed her a saint of protests.
St. Greta visits the protesters in Georgia, giving her blessing and providing comfort
"Nobody can stop us now that Greta is here," said one Georgian protester with an American accent, "not even Putin!"
Wait, she's a pedophile too?
(I want to be clear there is no evidence she's a pedophile. But Vaush is, hence the joke)
What pops into my head is a quote from the movie A Man for All Seasons (I've seen it numerous times cause of my Catholic family members and their like for it). There's a quote from it that goes like:
Sir Thomas More: [to Will Roper] Now, listen, Will. Two years ago you were a passionate churchman. Now you're a passionate Lutheran. We must just pray that when your head's finished turning, your face is to the front again.
It feels like every other headline with her is "damn, she's just a lib", "no wait, she might be more than that". Maybe she's just ignorant and learning as she goes, maybe she is a form of controlled opposition. I dunno, but hopefully she gets more clear as time goes on. Given how these things tend to go though, if she does get clear-headed enough, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the moment when western imperialist media stops talking about her and we only ever hear from her anymore from other sources. Western imperialists love the "debate ideas in public" conception of things until those ideas involve coherent communism and anti-imperialism, and then they suddenly remember what deplatforming is and sweep those ideas under the rug as fast and brutally as they can.
She’s cooking, the important thing is she is shifting left even if it’s not as fast as we would like her to go at.
She's moving in the right direction, but she still has some western brainworms
She is the brainworm. Why do you think she was sent to Georgia? To give legitimacy to an anti-Democratic protest, otherwise people wouldn't care.
"How dare you decide for yourself you want to align with Russia and not the West?!"
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She's a manufactured celebrity and western PR tool, not a revolutionary.
“Of course, you cannot prove anything,” she admitted, while pointing to “clear links” between the ruling party and Russia.
Imagine Mexico would have a party win an election with clear links to the US. They are fucking neighbors.
The issue is of course that Russia HAS been meddling in elections all around the world, investing into bots and agitprop. But the question is then, why would you wade into these muddy waters? Do you know Georgia well enough? Can you even read the relevant history in the Georgian language? And what is the goal?
Help turn Georgia western - and anti-russia, have them try to join NATO and HOPE that Russia doesn't launch another preemptive war?
Does she want more prosperity and western consumerism for Georgia? Is that good for the climate lol?
