She gonna get the Julian Asange treatment
Imagine declaring violent someone for their demonstrations against a genocide
Mossad's Epstein files must be wild.
Yes. Greta is well known for her violent tendency to be limply carried away by police from protests where she stands there...violently. have you seen the graphic photos of police carrying her away? It's a wonder they survive the encounter.
Attacking our batons with your shoulder blades and our pepper spray with your faces.
You said it. Shoulder BLADES
Yeah it's kinda what I was thinking. That lady and her terrorism have gone too far!
She does get a bit tasty with the old knuckle dusters.
The reason you don't hear about Greta anymore is because she didn't let her conscience stop at climate change. She's a left wing activist fighting for social justice in all things.
The rich will mold her image in history the same way they did for MLK, leaving out all the aspects of her politics that make them squirm.
Same reason we immortalized the child version of Helen Keller. Though she lived to 87.
Could you elaborate?
I never realized that, and it is kind of messed up. Although I suppose the main thing that happened for her happened as a child, the story of how she came to understand that words had meaning, starting with "water." I suppose I don't hardly know anything about the rest of her life.
Happily, when Helen was a young woman she assumed blindness to be a misfortune. A cruel test from God that nobody could control. Then she was appointed to a body that advocated for the affairs of the blind. And was faced with the stark reality that much of the blindness in the world was caused by people. Industrial accidents and chemical exposures often caused by the greed and selfishness of the owning class and the minimal protection afforded to citizens who didn't merit the governments protection. So she joined the wobblies, the IWW.
From which she soon became one of the most radical members.
In her own words from an interview with Barbara Bindley with the New York tribune, 1915
"What are you committed to - education or revolution?"
"Revolution." She answered decisively. "We can't have education without revolution. We have tried peace education for 1900 years and it has failed. Let us try revolution and see what it will do now."
"I am not for peace at all hazards. I regret this war, but I never regretted the blood of the thousands spilled during the French Revolution. And the workers are learning how to stand alone. They are learning a lesson they will apply to their own good out in the trenches. Generals testify to the splendid initiative the workers in the trenches take. If they can do that for their masters you can be sure they will do that for themselves when they have taken matters into their own hands."
"Don't forget the workers are getting their discipline in the trenches," Miss Keller continued. "They are acquiring the will to combat."
And thus her statue
High quality post. Thanks.
Or the Diary of Ann Frank. Easier to control the narrative around children than to discuss the politics of grown adults.
Well, she was murdered in the Holocaust a year after she wrote. So it makes sense that's how we remember her. We don't know what you may have been like as an adult. She was a cool ass kid, facing annihilation by total evil.
No wonder they teach it in schools.
The thing than never fails to make me laugh are "fuck greta" stickers on cars or bikes. Especially if it's a little VW golf.
Conscience*
Lol, early morning swipe typing.
Don't post pictures of text. Copy and paste the text and cite the source
Eh, it's a screenshot of social media...
Would 100% be nice to have a link of the article in the tweet's screenshot, but it doesn't seem like enough to remove the post.
I found the website, but it's in German, and I dont sprechen enough Deutsch to find a "translate" option, so here's an English source.
https://www.dw.com/en/greta-thunberg-says-germany-silencing-pro-palestinian-cause/a-70443304
If you're asking for the text of the tweet to be copied pasted to be inclusive for the seeing impaired, that's a good idea but not really standard, so feel free to type it out yourself to assist.
Well they have jumped the shark now.
Germans? No....
I could take her
I get where they're coming from since you could consider her voice as a weapon. Now sit down and shut the fuck up, the kids are talking. They gotta unshit this goddamn world since everyone before either stopped trying or advocated to make things worse.
The press release has since been updated and a correction issued:
https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/4971/5882017
The assembly leader of the Palestine protest camp informed the Dortmund police today that Ms. Greta Thunberg wanted to visit the assembly in Emil-Figge-Straße. Following an examination by Dortmund Police Headquarters, the latter issued an order banning the camp.
The Dortmund police carried out a risk assessment for the assembly. The announced visit by Ms. Thunberg led to the conclusion that there would be more people at the venue than stated in the assembly registration. The time frame specified in the assembly confirmation would also have been exceeded. The recent events in connection with Thunberg were taken into account in the assessment. After intensive examination as part of a risk assessment, the Dortmund police headquarters ordered the ban and the associated dissolution of the assembly.
The assembly leader announced on site that the assembly had ended and arranged for the camp to be dismantled.
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