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