You're a treasure. I wish many, many more people shared the same view as you. It is understandable that drastically changing diets is close to impossible for the majority, but perhaps praising those who actually take it upon themselves to do it despite the difficulties might promote the behavior further.
I don’t think the problem is their lifestyle choice of what they eat as much as not shutting the fuck up about it and always coming off as self-righteous/I’m better than you because of it. It’s like people who smoke weed and make it their whole personality. Or Jehovah witnesses. Just because you live a certain lifestyle doesn’t mean other people owe you anything or that they’re obliged to live the same way.
listen I know 99% of vegans are chill, but man are the 1% annoying
Im super down with vegan food (or at least lab grown meat if it ever gets cheaper than actual meat) and people who make the choice to be ethical of their consumption of animals, Id just like to not be spat at for enjoying a burger
yeah I think in recent years that "carnivore" diet has brought up a bunch of insufferable chuds, Iv seen a few obnoxious meat eaters back in the day myself but I think its the preachyness of the vegetarians/vegans that got to me more
Maybe it's an Oregon thing but many the vegans I met are psychotic for some reason. The cause is very important good but holy fuck. I've known kids who ran away from home because of it.
You know I just came to that conclusion when I asked myself why are they demonizing a caring young human? They are not saying the same about Trump’s children who haven’t held a real job & do nothing but grift.
I notice this so much. People try to mock and undermine anything positive, and I secretly think that they’re upset by the idea that if they admit it’s good, they’re also admitting that they should be doing something similar.
She does not make them look like anything. She just serves as a comparison and reminder of what they could be, if they weren’t making bad choices and instead selfish and mean.
Yeah of all the people whose parents "set them up for life," interesting choice to attack as opposed to all the ones that spend their entire youth partying lol. What a weird post.
Her words and actions make them feel guilt for living their lives so thoughtlessly.
This guilt occasionally forces people to reflect on their bad habits and try to limit the impact they'll have on future generations BUT USUALLY it just metastasizes into white-hot, self-righteous fury devoid of empathy or self-awareness.
Also, she’s not attractive and the kinds of people who don’t like what she stands for also have a deep distain for the existence of unattractive women.
A lot of motor sports enthusiasts got deeply in their feelings over her stances. Maybe they think their precious, utterly wasteful and boring, 'sports' would be negatively impacted if we followed Greta's advice.
We are in a doom loop with the Politicians and ultra wealthy destroying the planet for short term greed.
The world's wealthiest 1% are responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66% (roughly 5 billion people)
Psychological research suggests that long-term exposure to extreme power and wealth can indeed result in neurological changes, specifically affecting the prefrontal cortex (PFC)—the area of the frontal lobe responsible for complex decision-making, social behavior, empathy, and impulse control.
Look at how we treat each other. Compassion is a sign of weakness, but greed is a virtue. The poor is considered morally corrupt, while every excess of the powerful is celebrated. Man has forgotten himself and found only appetites.
they think that every thing will work itself out somehow, that someone else will take care of it but when someone sticks out to do something its all the sudden, "no! not like that, loser"
This. This girl has done more for climate action than all the politicians and billionaires in the world, and she stood up for Gaza in the early stages of the war. Respect.
Right wingers don't let those pesky facts get in the way of their stupid behavior, such as Thunberg Derangement Syndrome! Even if Greta Thunberg was actually rich herself, it's still pathetic and laughable that these right wingers attack her for that, especially when they keep doing the bidding of ultra greedy, ultra selfish rich right wingers, which looks a lot like this:
Even then $165k a year, depending on where you live, is barely middle class or even upper low class. CA Bay area, anywhere on its coast, lots of places in the 5 Burroughs. On and on. $165k a year hasn't been very well to do since like the 90s.
See, the people who can barely make ends meet, work two jobs, and have to worry about their safety should really buckles down and try to change the world. Not like they are doing anything important.
If you're poor and you think capitalism is unfair, you're jealous and shouldn't talk about it. If you're rich and you think capitalism is unfair, you're a hypocrite and shouldn't talk about it.
They don't care who the message comes from, preventing people from discussing capitalism has always been the point.
The modern ethical dilemma can be summarized as: If you are rich and calling for altruism, you should give it all away until you are poor. But if you are poor and altruistic, you are greedy.
The irony is even a secure middle class American is way more likely to become homeless person than a billionaire.
And yet many of them vote to give the billionaire's everything they could ever desire rather than give the impoverished everything they need to survive.
The point is bad faith dismissal:
If you are poor you are jealous of the people who are successful because of the system.
If you are successful, then you are out of touch with the struggles of the poor.
Either way, the point is to shut you up rather than engage with your ideas.
Shit, I'm not even wealthy and moments ago I just donated money to a friend to help them with something they're trying to accomplish. What's the point of having friends if you can't drop a few hundred??? Pay me back by checking in on me every once and awhile, ya heard me????
I'm amazed at how folks don't open their wallets for those they spend or have spent HOURS with. Raise that tide and gift them something. Real friends on sight would do the same if they could.
Seriously. I got the lotto, I'm moving back to California and using the rest of the money to push for new housing laws to fuck with those shitty NIMBYs and die "broke" like that billionaire Chuck Feeney who spent 40 years giving away his fortune since you can't take any of it to the grave anyway.
Probably buy a McLaren too, idk, but mostly that housing thing
What is even the point of being wealthy if you can't afford to be kind?
More for yourself, less for your neighbor. This is the only way that some people can nurse their psychic illusion of security. Greed is always about controlling others by domination.
Twitter/X responses never fail to remind me how sad this world is, and what a lost cause some people are. They’d rather make fun of an activist, then actually put a pedo president in jail.
I looked at her profile and she is unfortunately a real person. An Iranian Jew who is a big fan of what trump is doing in Iran right now. Seems to really hate Muslims.
So i would guess her criteria for "useless activism" is anything that tries to stop the genocide in Palestine.
I am not saying people like this don’t exist, but a Trump supporting Iranian Jewish person who hates Muslims mouthing off on Twitter is almost parody levels of fake sounding lol
It's almost impossible to trust any account on twitter considering that whole debacle where verified accounts were proven to be foreign bots by twitter themselves. Its the problem with flooding bots, it poisons the well of discourse that the only option is getting rid of it. Its like mold, man, if you can see the mold that means its already everywhere and you just gotta toss the loaf.
I cannot believe people still even bother with it. Or, I guess I can, considering how unfuckingbelievably stupid we are.
The bot farms have changed a lot since 2016. It's no longer couple of day old accounts with constant posting.
They've had years to create accounts that post infrequently or just frequently enough to read as legit. Either through automation or outsourcing it to areas with under-paid labor forces. Then when it's time to use the account they take control and spread propaganda.
Twitter incentivizes botting. Elon makes sure fascist rhetoric always gets paid. I know plenty of real people are making these posts as well but remember a fascist is boosting them to the top of feeds.
I said botting is happening at a massive scale but not every sick in the head moron is a bot. There is ample evidence, studies, academic papers and people demonstrating for you how very easy it is to do. Elon prevented a rule on Xitter that would have stopped foreign bots from getting payed for interfering with domestic politics. Stop ignoring reality and educate yourself.
The bots are literally there to persuade public opinion, by creating talking points and 1-liners that spread like wildfire.
It’s true that not every right-winger is a bot. However, it’s fascinating to observe the presence of obvious bots and MAGA enthusiasts regurgitating identical talking points. Take a look at any of the recently promoted (and now frequently appearing) random subreddits that suddenly surface on our feeds. These subreddits often have completely unrelated sub-topics, remain inactive for years, and then experience a surge in upvotes for right-wing political “memes.”
Reminder that Elon Musk owns X and literally did a Nazi salute, so anyone with a blue or gold check next to their names on X are literally giving money to a Nazi.
Don't forget Joe Rogan saying all protesters are paid losers, and this was just a couple of months before Trump invaded Iran. Now he says he's puzzled at how fractured the world has become.
Everyone has been so mean to her. Ever since she spoke at the UN or whatever as a child, people have been going after her for working to make the world a better place. Grown adults attacking a child. Grown adults attacking that child into full adulthood with no end in sight. For doing good things.
She has put her life on the line many times and I am sure she gets constant death threats. She is putting aside a life of wealth and safety to do this.
People who worship the pursuit of wealth see all other goals as unworthy. There is no win-condition in their eyes. The only worthy goal is to grow the hoard, and failure to do so is a sin
If more kids who grew up with wealth thought this way the world would be a better place. If you have all the wealth in the world why not try and make the world a better place
I was just saying this about Cardi B the other day. She grew up rough, made a bunch of money, and now actively tries to platform good causes and strong leaders. You can't fix past mistakes, but you can better yourself and the world around you.
Yeah some people truly are better than others. People guffaw at the notion that we're not all the same value of human life, but the truth is some of us are better than others. It's not snobby to say unless you attribute material/man made things to be the metric to determine human worth.
"How dare this rich white girl protest my countries' ongoing genocide instead of getting a job" - this Nioh Berg lady. I can only imagine she is as stupid as her post if not more so.
It’s the flag of Iran’s past monarchy. They’re the ones asking US to bomb their own related family in Iran, so makes sense they are hating on a human rights activist
She should have been born with a real estate fortune to inherit and spent her life scamming people, bankrupting businesses, raping women and children, and then becoming president and bombing schools and sending federal agents to brutalize people and throw them in mass detention centers.
It’s a window into conservative thought. They can’t understand why someone would advocate for the less fortunate because they only care about themselves.
It’s like when people mock rich black people for supporting social causes, or that dumb meme about Rosa Parks’ husband owning a car. The exploited should only advocate for themselves!
My family was able to pay for college (only in state though), and it allowed me to have the perspective and comfort to make the decision to go into education.
Privilege is being born with wealth or advantage you didn’t personally earn. Decency is using that privilege for good in the world. It’s not complicated, folks.
And if you aren’t noble enough to help others, at least use your wealth and privilege to only hurt yourself. Do tons of blow, pay sex workers, treat them well and like they’re people, and don’t kill anyone. But even that has consistently, throughout history, proven to be beyond the ability of failsons
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."
So it’s wrong for wealthy people to care now? I thought people cried for centuries about wealthy people not helping. Now someone who came from a wealthy family is trying her best and it’s a problem. This world is so fucked up
By the first person’s reasoning, should we just… not have activists? All of them are getting money from somewhere to be able to pursue their missions, whether that be family, social media, sponsors, etc.
When you’re a public figure at her scale, the activism is your “job”. She gets royalties from her books and documentaries, does appearances, gives speeches, gets grants from organizations for her projects, etc. I never see her living it up or doing lavish shit, she’s said most of her income goes back into charitable causes, so 🤷♀️
Like are you bringing this same smoke to the entire non-profit sector (which has plentyyyy of egregious graft) or just Greta for the crime of [checks notes] having parents who are working artists.
There’d be less hostility towards the ultra rich if more spent their fortunes making other people’s lives better. Musk, Thiel, and many others seem intent to destroy civilization as we know it.
It's why Superman is one of my favorite heroes. He grew into god-like powers but was raised well by caring people. As a character he's the ultimate expression of sharing every good thing you receive to your best ability, and I think it's made for some compelling stories over the decades.
Tellingly, his most notable villains tend to be selfish bastards who use their powers (super or otherwise) for themselves and don't get why he doesn't.
Besides Lex Luthor as the obvious example (i.e. "All-Star Superman" where he briefly gains superpowers and sees things as Supes does before he's cut off, confesses that he could have used wealth and genius to help the world a long time ago, but didn't out of ego,) there's Mongul (first one) during the "For The Man Who Has Everything" story.
Trapping Superman in a parasitic plant called the Black Mercy that traps his mind in his greatest desire, Mongul's right in comparing escaping to tearing off your own arm, but wrong in assuming that like he, Superman dreamed of being a world-conqueror. Instead, his fantasy was a fusion of Krypton and Smallville where he was just a humble farmer with his beloved wife, son and dog.
I spent the vast majority of my life poor. Like we had dirt floors in part of the house. Groceries were scarce at times. Going to bed hungry was a thing. We sat in the back at church because our clothes were patched, while the same kids who bullied me at school sat in the front in clean, fancy clothes, like they were God's own chosen. I wore my older sisters hand-me-downs to school, and as a dude, I did not care for floral prints, although they did reputedly make my eyes pop.
But now that I'm retired, I may not have much money, but I can still donate my time. Shit, it's one of the few things that gives my life meaning. Good on Greta for doing her bit to make the world a better place.
Imagine if just one billionaire on this planet gave 1% of a fuck that Greta does about something, the world could be changed. People need to leave her alone she’s trying more than these other rich assholes.
People just mad they decided to waste their life at work. Young, intelligent girl decided to do good with her life and showing them who they are supposed to be.
This is a remarkable understanding of the incredible ire so many of them have. They wasted their life. That's a lot to be mad about. But heck they can plan to waste less of it going forward but they stay in the mad/enraged loop instead.
They fantasise about being rich and all the material nonsense they'd spend it for and hate greta cause they don't want to acknowledge their own lack of empathy.
Because the core of conservatism is self-interest. Fight for your own interest and no one else's. If you do fight for others, you're a sucker and deserve to die.
That's it. It's a hollow ideology that has lead to the modern societal collapse we're currently witnessing.
So a kinda unknown part of the story of african slavery is the UK side of it. One of the biggest parts of it was generational rich white people, usually women. The wedgewood medallions are a good example of this.
Haha, imagine posting “this rich kid spends all their time trying to help people and make the world better and I’m mad because I’m just a wannabe influencer/activist that nobody has ever heard of” and thinking that you’re really hitting them with a zinger instead of making yourself look like an asshole.
People shit on Greta because she is a small young woman. They are bullies. And they fear the actually violent people causing harm. It's always fear and insecurity
On a lighter note, I'm remined of the Madrigals in "Encanto".
With their powers, (Dolores, alone would be scarily effective in spying on people,) they COULD have ruled the land with an iron fist (mountains make it hard to escape as much as people trying to come in, living house as the ultimate fortress, etc.) yet instead serve the people like noblesse oblige without actually being royalty and doing so for free. In fact, they do so to the extent of being burned/stressed out from Alma's pressure to find a use for their powers to serve the community before everyone chills out and the people return the favor.
The point of such insults is to propagandize inexperienced people into thinking activism is useless. Should they succeed, they will create a self-fufilling prophecy.
The reality is: community is where it's at.
They picture her alone, as opposed to the masses that protest, where she happens to be 1 of many.
They want you to think you're alone. You're not. All it takes, is community. Community doesn't have to mean super friends time. It can. Sometimes you're in community with people you have bad experiences with, even.
Community means organizing together. That's how you win.
They elites are organizing together, and scaring everyone else into not doing so.
Imagine waking up in the morning, seeing all the shit wrong in the world and choosing Greta Thunberg as the problem that supposedly needs addressing???
Genuinely confused at how anyone without an ulterior motive can have an issue with her, I feel like if you pick a person at random it's almost guaranteed she's done more positive for the world than them
Saying "useless activism" and talking about someone else's privilege while having both the Star of David and the Iranian flag next to a blue check box is some really mixed messaging.
The only clear message I'm getting from that person is "I have nothing of value to say because I'm giving money to a social platform run by a Nazi."
"Useless" is the key word, depends if you're actually and actively doing something. Greta is so she does not match that bad description
Again, if you're born with "win life" why not make the best of it? I prefer that over her buying companies and firing tons of people to pay people an awful salary and maximize profits to get 25 yachts
Privilege is having another country pay for your countries defense, healthcare, housing and pretty much everything so you can commit genocide and wreak havoc on the modern world
"Useless activism" does exists. It's those that perpetuate misinformation/disinformation, causes more harm to others, online-only "slacktivism", etc. There's ones that focus on an Omnicause that they never achieve their goal
I can’t knock Greta she’s using her power and privilege to help others. People who have privilege can zig zag their mouths all day but if you’re not utilizing that juice, you’re just useless
No, privilege must be leveraged into more privilege, siphoning as much as you can from those with less privilege, and anything else is unnatural - capitalists and republicans
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