solarpunk memes

I wonder if those books will have a note how Thunberg's name was one of the earlier examples of large-scale manufactured character lynching.

It was clear early on how capital felt about Thunberg that every media outlet seemed keenly interested in reporting not on what her message was, but about how people online hated her and were making memes about her, and the threats and backlash she received for doing things like... checks notes ...traveling places.

She has been and continues to be objectively correct, her early messages where she said "shame on you" to the world's economic giants have been made out to sound "cringe" in young people's media circles and people still share and distribute images her making a funny face.

People are SO FUCKING SUSCEPTIBLE to this manufactured attitude, I had endless arguments on reddit on left-leaning, environmentalist communities with people who were like "Yeah we need to care about the environment, but do we really need her speaking for us? She's all kinds of problematic" without being able to cite a single fucking thing she said that was wrong or bad.

You ALL need to understand this: When you see someone react to someone or something, you internalize that reaction whether you realize it or not. Your brain looks for patterns constantly. When you see things that repeat, when you see things that fit a pattern already establishing, your brain solidifies these associations.

When some right-wing chud shares an image of Thunberg or any activist making a weird face and say "total cringe" it doesn't matter if you're currently chained to a tree while you're scrolling, your brain will attach to that association unless you make active efforts to de-conflate it in your mind. This is why so many people move right when we have a right-wing leader, this is why we have so many people dying on whatever hill Elon Musk points at. This is why most voters decided that it was "more interesting" to vote for Trump or just stay home. This is being done to you all on purpose.