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[–] [email protected] 205 points 1 week ago (4 children)

All I get from this is how Greta is putting us all to shame.

She's fighting an unwinnable fight in the face of obvious defeat ... a literal David and Goliath confrontation (and this time there will be no divine intervention) yet she chooses to jump into the fight anyway.

GOP always pretend they could do the same but would only ever cower and scatter like cockroaches at the first sight of danger.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm genuinely afraid for her life. She's throwing herself into a situation where the last people who tried got bombed. The Reich wing of the world would love to see her killed and I honestly think the vast majority of us would shrug it off instead of riot. :(

[–] AlecSadler 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

She knows this. She's not dumb. I assume her hope is that her death will enrage people enough to do something. That her death will matter.

I hope it will too.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

She has already done this in the past, and she got drone bombed then too.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She's doing what she's been doing for the last several years. She is using the brand name recognition that the right-wing nutters have given her through their vitriol and using it to highlight whatever cause she desires to make people pay attention to.

In a very real sense they have turned her into a powerful media weapon for progressive and climate change causes. Because everywhere she goes she gets ink.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She's been doing it so long that Elon was liberal and they gave her a car to use for a US tour.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not sure why but as I read your post I concluded in my head that it kind of makes sense because the only convictions they have, if it can even be called that, is egocentric, while hers are principled and selfless.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Greta Derangement Syndrome

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

It's one of the favorite passtimes of the Great Obsessed Party.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Holocaust enablers and internet tough guys: name a more iconic duo.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Taco administrations and virtue signaling sitouts?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

They're the same picture

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Wish Lindsey Graham would eat a bag of dicks and choke on one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I can assure you he is currently choking on one.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

An entire bag of dicks would be a diet for this dandy.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago

lol this is a primary school grade reaction to something you are jealous of. He knows he never had and will never have a fraction of the courage this girl has at this young age so just lashing out to soothe is ego.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago

Everyone on that boat has balls of steel. The last one got sunk. Go get'em girls!

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Lindsey Graham is such a disgusting human being.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Don't call that lizard a human

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't call that sentient pile of feces a lizard

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Thats offensive to lizards. At least they do the job of eating cockroaches.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

Literal imperial lapdog jeers literal freedom fighter.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago

Dumbass piece of shit talks shit about courageous young person.

[–] matlag 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Does this coult as a threat, warranting a visit from the FBI? What would happen if I was writing "I hope he's bullet-proof" on a tweet about some public figure?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Doubtful. She's not a us citizen. And he's a Republican.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Personally, I hope he's not bulletproof

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[–] Lucidlethargy 25 points 1 week ago

This is a good time for one of my favorite book quotes:

"You might not have more courage, but you should be ashamed to show less" (Golden Compass)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is what happens when you just can't admit to the world that you want to kiss a man on the lips.

Greta has much bigger balls than Lindsey.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

He could have said nothing. He chose to look bad instead. I think there's a BO smelling fedora around here somewhere...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

If something actually does happen, this post won't age so well Lindsey. Unlike ladybugs, Greta has cajones of steel doing this again.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I see you're focused on solving or country's problems, Lindsay. Or does pandering do the dumbass base accomplish that goal instead?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Mr lindsey, you should entertain your young male escort instead.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why does he hope they can swim? They're on a boat. Is the boat going to sink or something?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago

The last boat got bombed

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

You could obliterate the earth and Greta would be the toughest human in space

[–] baggachipz 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fucking coward. Just sent him a little love letter, let’s see if I get a visit.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

If you read it in his voice, it becomes hilarious

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Are we still seriously hearing from this guy? Lindsay Graham is a spineless peice of useless garbage.

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