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All I get from this is how Greta is putting us all to shame.
She's fighting an unwinnable fight in the face of obvious defeat ... a literal David and Goliath confrontation (and this time there will be no divine intervention) yet she chooses to jump into the fight anyway.
GOP always pretend they could do the same but would only ever cower and scatter like cockroaches at the first sight of danger.
Don't worry, not ANY media -except the small actually left wing- will report on her ever again.
Anti-capitalism and anti-genocide or the worst you can be in our 'western democratic values world with free press'.
I'm genuinely afraid for her life. She's throwing herself into a situation where the last people who tried got bombed. The Reich wing of the world would love to see her killed and I honestly think the vast majority of us would shrug it off instead of riot. :(
She knows this. She's not dumb. I assume her hope is that her death will enrage people enough to do something. That her death will matter.
I hope it will too.
She's doing what she's been doing for the last several years. She is using the brand name recognition that the right-wing nutters have given her through their vitriol and using it to highlight whatever cause she desires to make people pay attention to.
In a very real sense they have turned her into a powerful media weapon for progressive and climate change causes. Because everywhere she goes she gets ink.
Not sure why but as I read your post I concluded in my head that it kind of makes sense because the only convictions they have, if it can even be called that, is egocentric, while hers are principled and selfless.
Holocaust enablers and internet tough guys: name a more iconic duo.
Wish Lindsey Graham would eat a bag of dicks and choke on one.
An entire bag of dicks would be a diet for this dandy.
lol this is a primary school grade reaction to something you are jealous of. He knows he never had and will never have a fraction of the courage this girl has at this young age so just lashing out to soothe is ego.
Everyone on that boat has balls of steel. The last one got sunk. Go get'em girls!
Does this coult as a threat, warranting a visit from the FBI? What would happen if I was writing "I hope he's bullet-proof" on a tweet about some public figure?
Doubtful. She's not a us citizen. And he's a Republican.
Personally, I hope he's not bulletproof
He could have said nothing. He chose to look bad instead. I think there's a BO smelling fedora around here somewhere...
If something actually does happen, this post won't age so well Lindsey. Unlike ladybugs, Greta has cajones of steel doing this again.
Mr lindsey, you should entertain your young male escort instead.
I see you're focused on solving or country's problems, Lindsay. Or does pandering do the dumbass base accomplish that goal instead?
Why does he hope they can swim? They're on a boat. Is the boat going to sink or something?
The last boat got bombed