• Po Tay Toes@lemmy.sambands.net
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    9 months ago

    If people need Greta Thunberg to oppose climate change or genocide, they might be ghouls without a human soul. But then again, there’s a lot of soulless ghouls in the world. 😔

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      This will certainly rile the rightwingers. They have hated Greta since she stepped into the spotlight and anything she talks about.

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        All they want is to destroy the planet and carry out their genocides in peace. Is that really too much to ask?

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          The planet will be fine. Humans on the other hand not so much. The planet is quickly becoming uninhabitable by humans. The genocides are just hurrying that process along.

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            I wouldn’t be so sure that “the planet” will be fine. All the species of animals and plants that we know and love will likely go extinct. Even if we do survive like the little cockroaches we are (in the best way possible) we’re never gonna see this world again. It will be dead forever. We will be alone, in a world filled with life that we never learned to love and know. Truly aliens on an alien planet.

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            Damn… You make genocides sound like a good thing for the earth.

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        Fuck pop politics regardless of sides… It’s all wack power games. Real people are real regardless of law.

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        I just think it’s weird to prop up a child as a spokesperson. (When she first became popular)

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      9 months ago

      No single person should be your moral barometer.

      Stanning is bad.

      (I also appreciate everything I’ve heard of Greta Thunberg saying and doing.)

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        Truth.

        In the kind words of Immortal Technique, and I quote…;

        “I’m just a man, don’t follow me nigga.”

        I’m sure Greta says the same in other words. …or maybe even the same words if she’s around her close group of friends…

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      I can appreciate if you agree with many of the things that she says, but you really ought to be cautious when a child (as she was when she became popular) becomes such a media darling.

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    Oh no a young woman famous for climate activism said something. Bust out your pitchforks, chuds.

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    9 months ago

    Anybody else a bit concerned that Greta seems to be doing the Benjamin Button thing?

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    9 months ago

    Who’s silent on this? It’s easily the biggest story on the planet right now.

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      A lot of people are denying that it’s a genocide, despite all the obvious facts. And those people are the ones in power in many western countries.

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        If it was obvious why didn’t the Court issue a cease and desist order like they did for Russia? Seems like they’d use the power available to them if the accusations were plainly evident wouldn’t they?

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          They wouldn’t against Israel, for the same reasons they wouldn’t against the U.S. if the U.S. did the same. I’m pretty sure the U.S. is violating international law ATM in regards to the border they share with Mexico, and I expect no action will be taken against them.

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          You’re probably going to get a temp ban for Zionism. Lol

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        I don’t watch much cable news but whenever I see it on, there’s coverage of this. The radio show I listen to touches on multiple facets of it daily… seems like we live in different eco systems.

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          This is the beauty of not consuming any MSM: you can believe it has said or not said anything you need it to have in order to confirm your beliefs.

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          Granted i don’t bother with much mainstream media myself so I guess I’m saying it in a way that of the parts of mainstream media that often bubble up their way to me, I’ve not really heard much recently

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        What mainstream media are you referring to exactly?

        Or perhaps you’re trying to say that US media is silent on it? Because there’s a lot more news organisation’s than just US ones.

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              BBC make online articles about everything and anything. I guess they would be considered mainstream but I was specifically thinking outside of the internet. But I’m just making excuses now so it doesn’t really matter, guess I’ve just not seen as much as others have recently or just not realised the sources for what I have seen.

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        I can’t disagree with that but I never understood where she came from and we she is such an authority figure

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    9 months ago

    Young people are prone to believing propaganda from Hamas because they haven’t been reading the news for a few decades to understand the context. Though you’d think Hamas massacring villages would get people up to speed. But when memes about Palestinians=good, Jews=bad has been circulating the internet for most of someone’s formative years, it’s hard to break out of this pattern.

    Every fourth generation has antisemitism problems because they likely never even met someone who has seen the effects of it. Gaza now looks like the cities of Germany looked like at the end of WWII. Hatred causes destruction, and many times it cause the destruction of one’s self.

    Don’t hate Jews, kids. Jews aren’t our enemies. Those that promote hatred towards Jews are pulling you into something you really don’t want to be a part of.

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      Support for Palestine does not equal antisemitism. And it’s incredibly problematic that that’s what you’ve implied here.

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      Fuck you

      YOU are not up to speed with what’s going on. Nobody hates Jews, that’s not the point in question, that’s the selling point of the Israeli government so that they can continue with a genocide.

      Yes, Hamas is bad, yes, Hamas leaders can be put against a wall and shot.

      The point is that Hamas wouldn’t even exist if it wasn’t for Israel. I’m not talking about Israel merely existing, I’m talking about the Israeli government randomly killing Palestinians for the past 50 years, treating them worse than animals and mostly: The Israeli government fucking funded Hamas so that it could exist and be the enemy they needed to fuck with the Palestinians.

      So fuck you, your bullshit and the horse you rode on.

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        Absolutely, and I appreciate that you pointed it out as being the Israeli government (and their military complex/IDF) that continues the atrocities target than the people as a whole. Personally I wish we could bury the lot (Hamas, and the corrupt members of the govt+IDF) upside down beneath a public outhouse.

        If anything, it seemed that many had enough of Netanyahu’s corruption and things might change there… before recent events, which to me is rather suspicious as well.

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      It’s actually more like Hamas = bad Israel = worse Palestinians = victims of genocide

      I wouldn’t label whole ethnicities as good or bad.

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      Don’t you have an SS veteran you should be applauding somewhere right now, rather thanvomiting out this paper thin genocide apologia.

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      It’s funny how you ridicule the young for believing in propaganda, whilst spewing it yourself.

      Jews aren’t my enemies, and I’m pretty happy about that because I see what they do to families of their enemies.

      Doesn’t matter what faith or religious persuasion, killing children is wrong. It’s not that hard of a moral compass.