Jan 24, 2025
Ya know, I think it’s interesting that as soon as Greta Thunberg started espousing anti-capitalist and anti-colonial sentiment, the media coverage of her deeds dropped sharply.
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The solution to climate change is to dismantle what causes it, and that’s the exploitation of developing countries by wealthier ones; and the exploitation of our resources to make line go up

Once Ms Thunberg moved on from “climate change is bad and we should do something” to “climate change is bad and THIS is what we should be doing”, suddenly the media isn’t a big fan of activism

Jan 24, 2025 at 11:04pmWeb
Show threadJoshixJan 24, 2025
@yassie_j "school kid skips school" gets more clicks
Show threadMatt TearleJan 25, 2025

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Hélder Câmara knows the feeling. “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist”

Show threadDon 🇨🇦Jan 26, 2025
@mtearle @yassie_j
Show threadJim InfantinoJan 25, 2025
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The cause of climate change and environmental degradation is money. So long as we cling to this Bronze Age, faith based method of valuation, we will continue to kill everything for one more coin.
Show threadMarta ThreadbareJan 25, 2025

@yassie_j I remember when she started I was very pessimistic, like "poor girl, they are pretending to listen to her by inviting her to everything and shut down her movement, I hope she is smarter than that but she's too young".

And then she went from "the system is broken and must be fixed" to "the system is working exactly as intended and must be destroyed" in like 1/4 of the time it took most of us to understand it.

Show threadDavid 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️NB they/themJan 25, 2025
@yassie_j They were hoping her activism would give permission to the status quo to keep status quoing but she’s not having any of their BS.
Show threadLeBonkJan 26, 2025
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similar thing with Helen Keller
one she found out that poor workers were more likely to become blind and/or deaf, she kinda got angry about the system that makes so many people poor and forces everyone to work