europe

Bizarro world shit.

Thunberg is so impressive. The way she went even harder into activism and front line direct action with her adult life came as a complete surprise to me.

Her status as a media darling and the way every liberal boomer man I knew developed a weird protective crush on her (lookin at you dad. wtf bro) creeped me out and primed me to be cynical. I cynically assumed that there were other influences and people motivating her to keep building on her activist momentum. But as an adult she's gone so hard and is clearly fully dedicated to doing even the really unpleasant and dangerous work. It's humbling.

I wasn't full conspiracy brained about it and as a kid she was still right and righteous, but it would have been totally reasonable for her to take her life in any other direction at any point. Her work as an adult puts a lie to any snide dismissal of all of her activist work and her character as a human.