Israeli foreign ministry posts video of Thunberg’s arrest; vessels carrying about 500 activists intercepted about 75 miles off coast of war-torn territory

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      hamas will be inspired by the boat trip and make peace. i can feel it. you can feel it.

      peace is in the air, thank you greta

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      you can replace israel with literally everything she has ever done

      this photo is back from when she saved the world from climate change before moving onto her next publicity stunt

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        Since when is caring about our planets biggest problems and having the platform and reach to try and make a difference “moving onto the next publicity stunt”

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          They aren’t wrong their intention is publicity and a stunt is doing something dangerous which this would qualify for. The issue is slanting it as a negative, all protests are publicity stunts that’s like their whole purpose.

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            “Publicity stunt” has the connotation that you’re only doing it for attention. The commenter is basically saying she’s putting herself in harms way and bringing attention to significant causes just because she’s an attention whore and not because she actually cares about them.

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              They are literally doing it for attention, but yes I agree slanting it as a negative is unwise and misleading.

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                  They are only doing it for publicity. It’s quite literally getting very publicly arrested to bring light to and test the blockade in court as a matter of international law. What other purpose do you think they have?

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                    … to affect change. If you do something only for attention, you don’t care about other things that happen. You only care about the attention.

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        Aw does the brave little girl make you feel a widdle inadequate? Time to promote genocide to make you feel strong and powerful like a big brave boy.

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        So you disagree with her stance? Or just how much attention she’s bringing to the topic? Why does it bother you?

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        Maybe lowest vote total I’ve seen on Lemmy? Congrats on being universally hated I guess. I never thought we’d all agree on anything but here we are. It’s beautiful.

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          I saw a full thread of Greta hate on Reddit. Completely unhinged. I think it was r/worldnews. I then argued with someone and they sent me a DailyMail link.

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            That place is fucking deranged but it’s also a carefully constructed culture where any critical comments towards Israel result in a permanent ban.

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          I already have them tagged as ‘zionist troll’, shitty takes are their thing I guess

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        Publicity stunt? Even if that were true, if someone does good for selfish reasons, does it matter to the ones they help? They’ve done a good thing and someone is in a better condition in the end.

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          Steps of activism:

          1. Go through court system to challenge a law, be told No because the public don’t want to change the law.
          2. Change public opinion by doing protest, be told Not here and you wasting people time and they cannot get to work and media doesn’t cover it.
          3. Change public opinion by doing a stunt, reducing effect on people day to day commute and media is forced to cover it. Be told “it is a publicity stunt and useless” <- we are moving from here.
          4. Challenge the system with strikes and massive protest, be told you are being angry and destroying public properties.
          5. Actual revolution, be told you are being a terrorist.
          6. Successful New system, “Thank you Greta I was supporting you since you start protesting climate change!”
          7. Failed revolution, “I told you so, you should have stayed home, now let me go back to my two part jobs to afford medical when I get heart attack from eating my favourite fast food.”
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        People with this big brain take always crack me up… they think they’re shitting on her when they’re actually just admitting how successful she is, because her objective is literally to get publicity and attention for her cause.

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        Man, she’s been doing a lot of publicity stunt to help people. Thank Greta! Someone’s gotta do it and it’s helping.

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        Serious question though, how does Greta have money to travel all around the world and do whatever she wants? (Granted the things she wants to do are worldwide humanitarian efforts) but who is funding her food & shelter & clothing & yacht trips?

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        Gotta love that smug self-satisfied smile on her face as she enjoys a piggyback ride from the SWAT team.

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          🤣 this has to be a record, got in early enough was like the 2nd comment