• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’m all for Greta Thunberg, she’s doing more with nothing than most politicians who have everything.

    These authorities don’t know how to stop a protest. If they just stop arresting her and giving her a headline, we’d never know about what she is doing.

    Every time they arrest her, she gains the publicity she needs.

    We should all be ashamed, … I am whenever I’m reminded of her work … a young woman is fighting against a monolith because she knows what’s going to happen to billions of people in the future … while we all sit quietly hoping all these problems just go away on their own.

    • ursakhiin@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      It’s important to remember not to compare your situation to that of public figures. Greta Thunberg is wealthy and she’s not have to work to survive. She is using that to fight for a cause that is admirable and we should applaud her for that. But don’t beat yourself up for prioritizing short term survival needs. Some people genuinely can’t do more than go vote once a year.

      This system is stacked against the little guy in more ways than one. Including ensuring that we don’t have enough time to raise a stink. While I have the income to suggest I could spend time doing stuff like this, I also recognize how quickly all of my assets would disappear if I took a couple of months.