cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37180089
Brett Wilkins Oct 06, 2025
"This genocide and other genocides are being enabled and fueled by our own governments, our institutions, our media, and companies. It is our responsibility to end that complicity… to use our privileges, our platforms, to take a stance against this, that is in every way unjustifiable,” Thunberg asserted.
“I will never, ever comprehend how humans can be so evil that you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades and decades of suffocating oppression, apartheid, occupation,” she added.
She truly is the best of us.
She’s good people. We need more Gretas!
Remember, your elected officials are protecting and supporting a genocide entity that claims the right to a fictional kingdom.
Make sure when electing people to find those who are not planning to benefit the highest bidder.
What a strong, selfless person. We need more of this kind.
She is right! Please focus on the victims and the actual perpetrators - the Israeli government and their army. NOT random jewish people. It’s so maddening to see fellow leftists get sucked into antisemitism because they can’t hold two ideas in their head like “The genocide in Gaza is wrong.” as well as “Genociding Israel would be wrong”. We are better than this goddammit!
Nobody’s calling to genocide israelis. I’m advocating for the end of Israel as a state and an agrarian reform.
They can stay if they pay rents lmao
The UK just had a high profile synagogue attack on Yom Kippur. Not defending Israel, but a lot of the diasporia are being victimized because of the war.
Violence against both jews and muslims increased but they want you to only care about opposing hate against only one side. The end of occupation is the only solution
There’s so, so many people out there who can’t handle any shades of grey. They need the good people, the bad people and nobody else or in between.
And they’ve completely overwhelmed all discussion in the fediverse.
I’m blown away by these vote counts bc they represent my dozens of real life conversations, whereas Lemmy usually doesn’t do that.
A lot of people come here for a circlejerk. I’d guess a nuanced take they can’t argue with like OP’s makes them click away.
Some of the worst Zionists aren’t even Jewish.
What I have seen is the government saying it is antisemitic to judge their actions. Sadly some of the israeli population reacts the same.
That’s always been their cover. Back 20+ years ago when I was protesting Israel’s actions, I got called antisemitic so often, I finally stopped expressing opinions on it.
Yes what makes this different. Israel has been doing this kind of shit for decades and nobody cared. I guess it wasn’t as public and they might be killing more publicly now.
We are better than this goddammit!
Clearly not.
We
areshould be better than this goddammit!Here’s that droopy defeatist again. Everyone else but sad-socks here: look past, and forward, we can succeed in making change!
Naive optimism isn’t much better than defeatism. They’re both deviations from objectivity.
Agreed, but (and I suppose this means Lemmy is smaller than I’d like) I’ve seen this dude posting similar “both sides”, “we’re doomed” etc etc etc shit.
Hope is always the last thing to die, but we’ve gotta be real and take action to fix things while it’s still relatively easy to.
Eh the way the world has gone when I hear someone is religious any religion I now think their a piece of shit.
The best of us in the hands of the worst of us.
I wish I had the guts and the connections to do brave shit like this
You don’t have to do shit that gets on national news to make a difference. Just being brave enough to go outside is the only requirement to help. Part of the reason Greta and others did this is so YOU take action how you can as well.
You don’t have to be brave beyond going outside if you can’t be. You can come join us at the next protest, vigil, sit-in, or even just learn more on a virtual meetup.
There are countless organizations but if you’re in the US the easiest way to find out about events in general will be find your local PSL or DSA on Instagram (yeah I hate Instagram too but it is what it is). They aren’t always the groups organizing activism but, in general, they will be promoting the events and that can help you find more specific groups in your area.
Outside of the US I can’t be as helpful though.
Just be aware of where the money you spend is going. Your power is as a consumer…so stop supporting companies, and nations, that oppose your worldview. It works.
Let’s see how many people show up for Greta
