• Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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    I bet on the latter. It’s just too much to be organic. A cutesy white teenage girl, chastising the world with teary eyes from UN podium? Come on. And don’t get me started on the content of the speech itself. It all just screams “emotional manipulation” to me.

    Meanwhile, actual environmental initiatives and results were ignored by the media.

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      Her book seems to inspire people but if you take a quick look, it’s just more liberal individualism. ‘No one is too small to make a difference’, just don’t think about organising to make a real difference.’ Same old critique of Engels and Lenin: radical politics censored by silence.

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        Or thereabouts, I wasn’t keeping up. But she was a teenager when she first hit the media. Also, forgot to mention the choice of country of origin. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that she’s from the Nordics - not just for racist reasons, but also because those places are wanked non-stop as some shining beacons of human rights, democracy and even “socialism done right”.