> Greta Thunberg > @GretaThunberg
[https://x.com/GretaThunberg/status/1852331823428247927] > > #UsaElection
#USA2024 #StopArminglsrael #FreePalestine #ClimateJusticeNow > > This year we
have seen many defining elections all over the world. On November 5th, It is
time for one of the most powerful countries in the world — the USA — to go to
the polls. It is probably Impossible to overestimate the consequences this
specific election will have for the world and for the future of humanity. > >
There is no doubt that one of the candidates — Trump — is way more dangerous
than the other. But no matter if Trump or Harris wins, the USA — a country built
on stolen land and genocide on indigenous people -will soll be an imperialist
hyper-capitalist world power that will ultimately continue to lead the world
further into a racist, unequal world with an ever increasingly escalating
climate- and environmental emergency. > > With this in mind, my main message to
Americans is to remember that you cannot only settle for the least worst option.
Democracy is not only every four years on election day, but also every hour of
every day in between. You cannot think you have done “enough’ only by voting,
especially when both those candidates have blood on their hands. Lets not forget
that the genocide in Palestine is happening under the Biden and Harris
administration, with American money and complicity. It is not in any way
'feminist.” “progressive” or “humanitarian” to bomb innocent children and
civilians — it is the opposite, even It it is a woman in charge. And this is of
course one example among many of American imperialism. I cannot for my life
understand how some can even pretend to talk about humanitarian values, without
even questioning their own role In further deepening global oppression and
massacres of entire countries. > > So, Americans, you must do everything in your
power to call out this extreme hypocrisy and the catastrophic consequences
American Imperialism has on a global scale. Be uncomfortable, fill the streets,
block, organise, boycott, occupy, explicitly call out those in power whose
actions and Inaction lead to death and destruction. Join and support those who
are resisting and leading the change. Nothing less will ever be acceptable.
Mod of !anarchism@slrpnk.net posts a great Greta Thunberg quote, but then tries to use it to justify not voting in the upcoming US election
Multiple people point out that’s very clearly not what she meant
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Using your mod powers to decide who is allowed and not allowed to speak is not very anarchist of you, @mambabasa@slrpnk.net
I have no idea. If I had to guess, I would say that index’s history pegs them as one of the accounts that posts almost exclusively “why the Democrats and specifically the Democrats are bad” content, along with being aggressively toxic to anyone who has anything to say about it, and they were banned for the toxicity and then proceeded to whine about it using whatever random bad-faith nonsense came to mind. In this case, what came to mind was the well-worn trope that the mods were brainwashed by liberal propaganda and were censoring anything truthful to try to push their program of getting Kamala Harris elected.
I don’t know any of that for sure of course, and I didn’t care enough to do more than a brief investigation. I just thought it was funny that they were applying reflexive accusations of liberal whitewashing against a target that was even sillier than most of the targets that it gets applied against.
I have no idea. If I had to guess, I would say that index’s history pegs them as one of the accounts that posts almost exclusively “why the Democrats and specifically the Democrats are bad” content, along with being aggressively toxic to anyone who has anything to say about it, and they were banned for the toxicity and then proceeded to whine about it using whatever random bad-faith nonsense came to mind. In this case, what came to mind was the well-worn trope that the mods were brainwashed by liberal propaganda and were censoring anything truthful to try to push their program of getting Kamala Harris elected.
I don’t know any of that for sure of course, and I didn’t care enough to do more than a brief investigation. I just thought it was funny that they were applying reflexive accusations of liberal whitewashing against a target that was even sillier than most of the targets that it gets applied against.
Apathy and lack of curiosity towards people who think differently from you is a virtue, don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise. Never change, Phil.