As a 'climate activist' she started as a parody, passionate and articulate about a hot topic but dismissable as a child. But when you start to say certain things, you lose broad appeal. You can go out and rail against the 'elites' 'rigging the system' to 'keep us down' but the moment you say the 'bourgeoisie' are 'exploiting the workers' and 'using capital to wage a class war,' you are not getting broadcast, and not being listened to by many people. People love Marxism by other terms but if you use the Marxist words, you won't be taken seriously.
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It seems in general that attention isn't even On climate change like it was before covid. The news platforms are filled with populist governments wars and genocides. Eve. Though climate change is the greatest existential threat it's ability ro grab attention has faded
Climate change is brought to you by lobbying networks that spans multiple industries. Why stop us when we can convince you to just let us.
We don't want to actually fix the causes of climate change, that would be silly and harm to the poor billionaires.
We want you to think its your fault, and to stop using plastic straws.
I see her on reddit every month with whatever new thing she got arrested for. Those are news articles links.
What a mystery…
TBH I think it's because people mostly use news for entertainment and everything gets old.
Because the people that own the media platforms that would provide coverage are greedy capitalists and Greta just doesn't bring in the viewership.
I actually saw her in the news 2 weeks ago about her trip to gaza. Must just be your echo chamber that stopped caring about her.
Why are those dudes all so hot? Hot cops?
I think that's just a you thing
Two on that right are definitely fuckable. Rightmost could be hot enough to be a TV cop with a styling crew.
The rest need a personality, but they're cops, so
Nothing wrong with it, lol just not everyone Cup o tea
Maybe because they're not American cops so they're actually in decent shape?
I think the media coverage drop off is due to her getting older (and thus more "ordinary" - less newsworthy), and due to her not changing her issues or opinions much (and thus there is nothing "new," to report). Our newstainment system wants new and fresh and cute. Not serious and persistent.
The ship she was planning on boarding to Gaza was literally attacked by Israel.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Gaza_Freedom_Flotilla_incident
There is plenty newsworthy here.
Counterpoint: Israel attacks absolutely everything around it for no fukken reason, so nit newsworthy.
You are not wrong, but I don’t want to admit that you are right since it’s so depressing
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Our newstainment system wants new and fresh and cute. Not serious and persistent.
Don't derail the attention somewhere else. News are mostly about the same popular people who have been under the spotlight for decades, there actually no much space for neither fresh or cute. It is implied in the picture why the media coverage drop.
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Because governments were only using her for greenwashing and control public opinion.
It is kinda like with Martin Luther King Jr. and Fred Hampton. It is very sus that they are killed once they started organising for class solidarity, regardless of colour, and speaking about wealth inequality.
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What is the name of the Arab girl that advocated for girls education on the Arab world? She was also blocked out by the media the second she started talking about socialism and the injustices that the capitalist system brings in.
Malala Yousafzai
Edit: a couple corrections.
She's Pashtun (Pakistani), not arab, but she is a practicing Muslim. She was fighting against the Taliban's ban on girls from education, which is not a feature of the rest of the muslim world. It's a feature of extreme fundamentalism, of any religion, not of Islam.
Did you read her book? I have it on my TBR list but it is a long list. I usually like to read fiction but try to do a nonfiction/memoir in about every 3-4 books (I read about 5/wk which varies d/t length).
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She's always made that connection.. since day one. The whole "How dare you!?" Speech was about people still only talking about making profits of climate change rather then doung Everything to prevent more change from happening.
The reason she's not the center of media attention any more is because she's been the center of attention for years already and viewers/readers aren't as interested in her any more. Her name doesn't pull as much attention any more.
As you add more and more issues to the protests, the set of people that have the same opinion on every single issue gets smaller and smaller, until your movement falls apart.
In Germany around the same time, climate protests started to take stances on immigration and cultural approbation and also fell apart as a result.
The movement is stronger than ever. The coverage has disappeared, but there are more and more people willing to seek out every right answer and give up every privilege.
Centrists and right-wingers keep pretending that solidarity and radicalism makes movements weak, when it has always made them stronger. The moment Labor parties abandoned radicalism and chose the Third Way, their voter share dropped off a cliff. The moment movements abandon their most radical left-wing contributors to appeal to the lowest common denominator they collapse from in-fighting and the hardest workers moving off.
There is no Schelling point for less-than-complete justice. Nations, religions, ethnicities, even capital is just one of countless different ways to slice the pie and pretend that the hurt you suffer is more urgent and in-scope than someone else's. If you morally accept rallying to one subgroup, then you have no defense against others you depend on from rallying to another subgroup and coming into opposition with you. There is no way around it:
None of us are free until all of us are free.
Brother I don't even know how you plan to sit here and pretend like those are separate issues. You can't separate capitalism and climate change. You simply cannot.
We can also do united fronts. We don't all have to agree on everything to work on aset of issues
Exactly, and you literally cannot work on that issue if you don't understand that capitalism climate change are linked. Any attempt to address climate change without addressing the problems of capitalism will always fail because capitalism is what is allowed it to get to this point and to continue to become worse. There's literally not one thing you could do to address climate change that will not be undermined by the capitalist class. Anyone paying attention should know that right now.
That's not the point they're making.
As you add more issues, then the Venn diagram of overlap of all the issues gets smaller and smaller. It doesn't matter if you think this is an obvious objective truth. What matters is what other people think, because you won't have much of a "movement" without other people who agree and join you.
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I remember smear pieces from German press after October 7 2023, where they claimed Greta would have fallen in the eyes of the world. The idea that "the world" may not follow the same narratives as Germany seemed to be beyond comprehension for those writers.
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