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Greta Thunberg – still making all the right enemies (www.aljazeera.com)
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They say she is using ‘the climate movement to throw her support behind the Palestinians’. Well, good on her.

“Silence is complicity,” Thunberg added. “You cannot be neutral in a genocide.” She is right.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

If there was a word for "genius" but for being a good person instead of smart, she would be that.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago

Greta remains awesome

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago

Greta did the climate movement a massive favor. Their words would have sounded very hollow if they decoupled other important issues. It would signal we only care about humanitarian catastrophes when they affect us.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

Lives rent free in their minds

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Her words are like Sophie Scholls, but I really wish a bit more consequential in the present time.

The machines working against her are just so vast.