Greta Thunberg speaks before departure of flotilla carrying aid to Gaza

Agreed, but there's no one on board with the same public face as Greta.

... if not more so.

Greta brings awareness but I'm not sure what capabilities she brings to the flotilla.

She's also less likely to be disappeared than others.

Do you watch things made by people you dislike to stay upset?

Nah, dude, you aren't doing shit here. Stop justifying ineptitude and reluctance. She's out there making tangible changes, you are here tapping buttons.

Thank you, jeena. Very cool

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I also think some people don't understand direct action as a valid escalation. Let's just hold up signs in the street forever.

She isnt the one making it a dumpster fire so I dont get your point at all

Yemen and these flotillas will be written about in history as historians analyze why so little was done to stop a genocide.

History is written by the victors, but i hope you're right.

Why? You’re not implying Gazans mean them harm are you? I know more than one family that would lay down their lives to defend people like this. They’re not idiots. They absolutely understand the optics and global importance of this style of activism.

Wow that is curious. The article itself changed. Don’t they usually include “update” or “changed to include” and a time stamp when that happens? Or am I just not seeing it? When I read it the first time it definitely didn’t talk about leaving port again. If memory serves it said they had to turn around due to weather and it was unclear if or when they’d leave again. Now it says,

“A flotilla of dozens of boats loaded with aid for Gaza departed Barcelona port on Monday evening after stormy weather forced them to return to port earlier, Reuters footage showed.”

Strange. But glad to know they’re underway.

I’ll save you the trouble. The majority of the arguements fall into the usual categories it’s “performative”, “it won’t matter any way”, “it’s a ‘war’ zone”, they’re all just “taking pleasure cruises on yachts” that “they aren’t even carrying aid”, that “Greta’s just a rich spoiled brat and it’s European rich kids having fun” etc. And of course the full fledged backing of Israel(which is basically confessing Israel has an obligation to provide for “their” territory and are failing to do so).

Basically “DiRtY HipPiESssssssss” is their “strongest” counter-arguement. The rest are just proving the point how ridiculous Israel is and how world governments are complicit.

Zero coverage on Chris Smalls from the corporate media. Dude was literally tortured by the IOF.

I respect Greta. Don't get me wrong. It's actually amazing that someone that came from a wealthy family did not just end up being another shitlib telling us to stop using plastic straws to save the planet.

It's a testament to her moral compass that it lead her to be radicalized.

If the liberals avoid talking about you and the conservatives hate you then you're doing something right.

But Smalls has always been ignored by the Liberals (unless they could use him as a winning point after the fact). Greta was meant to be a symbol of the liberals form of climate change inaction (but she didn't play ball and was largely dropped). They can't avoid talking about her as easily because the conservatives hate her.

Conservatives hate Smalls but they largely just don't know who he is. So the liberals can ignore him more easily.