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Toot link; transcript:

Greta Thunberg could have, by now, carved out a very comfortable life for herself as a liberal grifter-celebrity offering platitudes about personal responsibility at Davos. Instead she connected the dots between ecocide, capital, and empire, aiming squarely at the heart of the beast. And now fresh out of captivity she downplays her own suffering to recenter the urgency of aid to the Palestinian people. No wonder she's hated by the fascist+lib coalition that rules this world.

Author: JP (@jpbreton@mastodon.social)

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[–] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 204 points 3 days ago (4 children)

That interview she just put out was gut wrenching. She has every right to feel indignant at her treatment but she still wants to fight and reframe the discussion around those that are suffering more.

Shes basically The Shit.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 33 points 3 days ago

Unsure if it's the one you're referring to, but she did an interview in Swedish and the frustration you hear from her is just as gut wrenching.

I could speak of all of the children who are no longer able to go to school, of all the children who required amputation, of all the children now orphaned. Of all of the houses and quarters that have been obliterated by bombs. I could also speak of the extreme physical abuse and the torture we were subjected to in prison. I could speak of the many bombings that our boats were attacked with on the way to Gaza. But nothing sticks! I could list all the international laws and UN conventions that Israel is breaking every day, of which we have seen a tiny, tiny piece. But this has already been said thousands of times. And like I said, it doesn't stick.

She technically says "it doesn't bite" rather than stick, but I don't think that kind of phrasing works in English. In essence, it means to have an effect. She expresses that nothing she can say will have any sort of effect, so why bother talking about it? That it's not like we're unaware of what's going on, but that we're choosing to ignore it. How no matter what atrocities we're exposed to, nothing has the effect of making those in power do something about it.

We're pouring money to Ukraine in this proxy war against Russia, which obvs. isn't a bad thing, Ukraine deserves the support. Yet our politicians are expressing none of that staunch humanitarian fervour for the Palestinians.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 30 points 3 days ago

She is as bad ass as these right wing grifters wished they were. But if your audience is brain dead, you don't actually have to do anything, you can just claim things.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

not gut wrenching. that shit was straight up inspiring.