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If this keeps up we might get a Part 3 to this meme.
It's a welcome change, but she still isn't firm enough. To make her message more firm:
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The first paragraph needs to be taken out. You can't say voting is pointless (true) while hyping up this election at the same time.
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"There is no doubt that one of the candidates - Trump - is way more dangerous than the other." That's just her capitulating to lesser-evilers. Trump isn't "way more dangerous" than Harris at all outside of him being a shittier imperialist to the imperialist project. As Black revolutionary Imam Jamil Al-Amin said, "Evil is evil. There's nothing in between that."
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"With this in mind, my main message to Americans is to remember that you cannot only settle for the least worst option." She needs to get rid of the "only."
To me, it looks like either her original message was a lot firmer but got watered down by one of her close associates who changed her mind/edited the message or she is personally conflicted and hasn't fully crossed the bridge to give up on lesser-evilism.
Greta is going for the twin towers
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
How does one 23 year old with no army "go too far"?
Libs.
Libs are absolutely terrified of people saying stuff cause they think power is exchanged via west wing speeches
That's why I've beentaking a study course in Old Enochian. Gonna start speaking unmentionable horrors (things that happened last week that dems have memory holed) in to being
Fuck, liberals actually think spells are real in the old timey finnish rap battle sense. We are so cooked.
It's the mirror image of the reactionary "this kind of activism only pushes people away"
Idk if it ever aired outside the US but back in the 90s there was a kids show called Captain Planet and these five woke dei kids were like ring wraiths for Gaia and they'd like set oil executives and loggers on fire and if things got too tough they'd combine their ring powers to summer Captain Planet, a cheerful blue murder himbo who would use super powers to do eco-terrorism. This was a show for children! One regular ass tv! It could never happen today. Never. It wouldn't be tolerated.
Oh, I've seen it too. Many shows back then had eco activism as a good thing, or at least oil execs as villains. I think even that weird "Motormice from Mars" show had an oil baron as the main antagonist.
And I don't think it couldn't happen now. Media, even when revolutionary on the surface, is barely driving real world engagement and can be easily defanged. We live in the revival era of anti-capitalist messaging in media (film and even video games), and yet it's been fully consumed by capital. I hate Zizek and his clique, but Mark Fisher was spot on in Capitalist Realism.
Avatar, one of the biggest box office successes in the world, has a blatant anti-colonial message yet most people don't apply it to the obvious parallells in the rral world. We just consume, feel good for a moment for agreeing with the obvious morally correct choice, then do fuck all about it. And execs know it.
sorry for the doomer note here
yet most people don't apply it to the obvious parallells in the real world
Because they think they don't live in that world. They can't see the parallels because they see their world as flawless.
They think it's all fictional and made-up, and that, because they are receiving their treats, they must therefore live in a utopia.
Captain Planet, he's our hero! Gonna take pollution down to zero!
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.
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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.
It's good that we were right about her longterm trajectory though!
A label I hope she'll embrace if she ever gets called that.
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