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I'm honestly flabbergasted by this pic, this is probably how trumpers felt with that photo of him after being nicked in the ear.
I confess that I was one of those people who eyerolled at the name and attention Greta Thunberg was getting when she was younger.
And honestly I think a lot of what I thought holds up, that the fact that powerful organizations were inviting her to berate them meant she wasn't threatening at all, that her meeting obama meant she didn't understand the underlying structure that causes climate change, that a literal child being the oracle of end times was a trope and didn't bode well for the movement if its leader was 13 yo and that if she had any brains and was serious then she would HAVE to become some type of socialist.
But all that goes to say that she could've easily sold out and become a despicable NGO person, instead she's out there showing so much more courage than everyone in the humanitarian media ecosystem, all the while probably fully understanding what it means that the media don't report on her every movement anymore, how that happened idk, maybe she read theory, maybe she had cool friends who taught her about stuff, anyway she's
A dear friend of mine was complaining about Greta back when she was still a kid, saying what right does a kid have to complain to nations? I huffed. I pointed out she has more right than any of us- the most of her years are ahead of her. She can't control what world she inherits, only the people she's screaming at can do anything.
Back in the 90s, when I realized what shape things were in then, my adults just told me to shut up. They said they didn't care. Greta had supporting players who let her express herself on these, the things that matter. I wish we had more kids whose parents let them address the world like this. It's going to be theirs. They should have a say in what it looks like.
I was talking like Greta when I was a kid, but I didn't do much beyond steal some native plants off private land before they got covered over with concrete.
She took it way farther than that and I wish I could be a fraction as heroic as her. Not just saving the trees and whales, but fighting for oppressed people all over the world.
This is still based as hell don't sell yourself short.