Greta Thunberg Says Trump 'More Dangerous' But Blasts Harris On Gaza
Greta Thunberg Says Trump 'More Dangerous' But Blasts Harris On Gaza
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Friday labelled Donald Trump the "more dangerous" option in next week's US presidential election but slammed the incumbent administration for its support of Israel.
Her statement:
I think she makes a good point. She's not telling us not to vote for kamala. She's saying we shouldn't only have these two options and to campaign for actual better people and change public opinion the other days of the year. But in the end, we really only have two choices and voting for Harris is the most damage control we can do.
6I think it's kind of strange people think Harris wants to be associated with this Genocide. If it were that black-and-white, she clearly would've taken a harder position.
But if she does, then the larger Israeli-sympathetic Jewish voting bloc in PA that dwarfs the Muslim vote in Michigan (with less Electoral votes, mind you) gets jeopardized. If she doesn't toe the line, she loses, Trump wins, and Gazans are definitely fucked.
Like it's completely obvious why she has to have this position, lest she's immediately cast as antisemitic.
40Well it's being actively used against the democrats. Bibi met with Trump and needed little encouragement to keep his genocide going till election day, to make the democrats look bad.
7I agree but it's damned if you do, damned if you don't.
They're trying to negotiate a ceasefire; they're trying to get aid into Gaza.
The problem with withholding large amounts of aid is the antisemitic attack ads will have more bite, AIPAC as the most powerful lobbyist will go crazy, and there's a non-zero chance Bibi stages a false flag attack to paint Democrats as leaving them defenseless.
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Polling indicates that she would certainly get significant gains in Michigan and Pennsylvania, along with all the other swing states. So I doubt polling is her reason for her stance on Israel and Conditional Military Aid
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Our first matchup tested a Democrat and a Republican who “both agree with Israel’s current approach to the conflict in Gaza”. In this case, the generic candidates tied 44–44. The second matchup saw the same Republican facing a Democrat supporting “an immediate ceasefire and a halt of military aid and arms sales to Israel”. Interestingly, the Democrat led 49–43, with Independents and 2020 non-voters driving the bulk of this shift.
- Split Ticket (July 2024)
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In Pennsylvania, 34% of respondents said they would be more likely to vote for the Democratic nominee if the nominee vowed to withhold weapons to Israel, compared to 7% who said they would be less likely. The rest said it would make no difference. In Arizona, 35% said they’d be more likely, while 5% would be less likely. And in Georgia, 39% said they’d be more likely, also compared to 5% who would be less likely.
- New Poll Suggests Gaza Ceasefire and Arms Embargo Would Help Dems with Swing State Voters (Full YouGov Report) (May 2024)
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- Data For Progress Poll (May 2024)
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Majorities of Democrats (67%) and Independents (55%) believe the US should either end support for Israel’s war effort or make that support conditional on a ceasefire. Only 8% of Democrats but 42% of Republicans think the US must support Israel unconditionally.
Republicans and Independents most often point to immigration as one of Biden’s top foreign policy failures. Democrats most often select the US response to the war in Gaza.
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The most substantive quote you have is a blatant editorializing by Zateo of the YouGov data. Nowhere does the polling datasay "withholding all aid." Conditioning Aid != Withholding Aid, which implies all aid. If we're going down this path, then Biden has already withheld some aid to Israel. And when he did, there was a massive backlash.
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Moreover all of these studies are many months old and thus subject to drastic changes since the likes of May. Moreover they don't factor in the blow-back effect of withholding aid and the risk of there being a false flag on Israeli soil and how that would be portrayed against Democrats. Moreover it does not reflect the attack ads that would be used in battleground states with further bite by the GOP if Harris/Biden did this.
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Further aid has also been conditioned on aid surges into Israel. Israel as expected is falling short half-way through the 30-day ultimatum.
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Biden and Harris have repeatedly sought a permanent ceasefire solution; Trump by contrast reached out to Bibi to undermine said ceasefire negotiation. Both sides obviously deny this call because it would be blatantly illegal and undermining in public optics, but we know this is par for the course for both of them. It is in the interest of both Trump and Bibi to deny the ceasefire in order to make Biden/Harris look bad through the election.
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Wow, Greta uses her recognition to point out the whole thing is a mess and there's no great choices, and more importantly it's up to people to not quit after their vote and actively and continuously push for change...
And already there's posters making fun of her. Maybe they just read the headline and not the full text...as per internet tradition.
56And US politics has become a team sport.
19There's always been a polarity even at the start. Smaller one issue groups would end up merging with one of the major ones. It has gotten far worse though, ironically in the age of information where people should be able to discuss and learn about topics better. I think we broke something.
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Well she's pretty much wasted her influence here.
Very few people care enough to read her nuanced opinion, and those people will be democrat voters anyway.
To anyone that needed to hear her message she just said "both sides are shit right now, and everyone's shit is emotional right now".
Elections are lost with complex messaging.
Gretas problem generally is that she looks great to intelligent progressive young activists, but she just makes everyone else feel... chagrined I guess. What I mean is that she's incapable of changing the opinions of the people who need to change their opinions.
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Thank you Greta for pointing out what a toxic influence Americans are. They have created disasters everywhere they go. Fuck the British as well.
12Is the US uniquely racist compared to the rest of the world? I feel that answer is no, while also knowing that this place is fucked up at times.
15It just tells you how fucked up the rest of the world is.
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to everyone downvoting this...look in the fucking mirror.
7If liberals had any self awareness they'd be democratic socialists.
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And now democrats hate Greta Thunberg, blame everything on Russia and love Liz Cheney.
Anyone notice a pattern?
2- Greta: what? What are you talking about? Neolibs: sure, they hate her. Most reasonable, intelligent leftists? They’re basically cheering her on, myself included.
- Russia: not everything, but the fact that the guy running Russia - who not only orchestrated false flag attacks on his own country to help get into power, but also was a KGB agent who worked very closely with the GDR’s Stasi in the late Cold War - is and has been using the Russian foreign intelligence apparatuses to conduct extremely aggressive foreign influence and espionage campaigns for DECADES should not come as a surprise.
- Liz Cheney: I and many other leftists categorically detest her politics. But the reason I still respect her to a degree is that she’s come out staunchly against fascism, and it cost her her whole political career to do it. I will always respect someone who stands against fascism, even when it costs them ENORMOUSLY in a personal and professional sense.
There’s nuance here, and you’re intentionally ignoring it.
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Not helping, Greta.
-3Greta was very passionate and convincing as a teenager pleading for action on climate change. She's not very educated beyond this
-6Thanks child of billionaires for telling everyone what they already knew!
-39This a new conspiracy theory to me. Greta Thunberg's parents, a moderately successful opera singer and non-Hollywood actor, are billionaires? I'd be surprised if they were worth a million, let alone a billion.
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Gee thanks Greta, that’s what we need right now. We are all aware and disappointed with our options.
-17Here's a lil' secret for ya: Affecting change requires you to apply continued pressure. Only when single voices become a chorus will the powerful listen. So yes, Greta is saying what
we allyou already knew. But that's a good thing. The more say it, the bigger the pressure.24