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US election 2024: Greta Thunberg refuses to endorse either candidate in damning post

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Greta Thunberg refuses to endorse either US presidential candidate in damning post

Thunberg added that “no matter” which one of them wins, America “will still be an imperialist, hyper-capitalist world power that will ultimately continue to lead the world further into a racist, unequal world with an ever increasingly escalating climate and environmental emergency”.

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Sorry but this is just batshit crazy.
Make a list of the world's 500 most greenhouse gas producing companies. Ask the board of each of them who Greta should endorse and they would unanimously say that she should make a statement refusing to endorse either.
It doesn't take much intelligence to realise that the least worst option is the best option, particularly when the people voting for the worst option will not be dissuaded.
I realise that most lemmy users revere Greta like the morning sun, but I'm supremely confident that if Trump wins a lot of "message voters" and their influencers will feel pretty silly in a year or so.
What a fucking fool
That's how a lot are spinning this, and she doesn't endorse anyone (not even third party) because she's pointing to the bigger picture. However, I do think she's subtly weighing the options with the line "With this in mind, my main message to Americans is to remember that you cannot only settle for the least worst option." Read it carefully, along with what follows it about not quitting after a vote.
Vote third party as a message if it makes you feel better, but just like those voting for Harris - you better not stop there.
- Nothing wrong with being a commie
  
  Commies are generally wonderful people. Its the governments that are the issue same as in capitalist societies.
  Most governments seek centralization, which makes them prone to corruption. Which is how they fail.
  
  She's Swedish, so she comes from one of the better systems of government and social welfare there is. What could communism give her that's better? At least you didn't use the socialist label, because then I'd just have to point out she already is one.
You don't need the permission of a European kid to vote for the least shit option for your government and kick the can of fascism a little further down the road. The recent is close - the outcomes delivered by each candidate aren't - you shouldn't need encouragement to vote accordingly.
- They're not currently in power. I'd like to keep it that way.
She's right, but she also doesn't have US citizenship.
Greta is on the right side of of Israel, but she is victim of EU colonial disinformation propaganda favouring war on Ukraine, which is pure US imperialism. There is zero possibility of a sustainable climate if oil interest tell you that war is more important. Prioritizing a need to control renewable energy (tariffs) is also incompatible with climate sustainability, and is done to further protect oil use/profits far more than helping local boutique renewable producers.
So Biden/Harris have done far more to destroy the climate than to save it. CO2 atmospheric concentrations have gone up record amounts even as energy progress has been made. Some of it is feedback effects of more forest fires, but 3% of global diesel being used in Ukraine, and increased military production, in a war the hegemony needs to last 10+ years to keep oil profits high is climate destroying.
It is China that is transforming energy. The US is an obstacle to the transition.
Smart Girl.
Understandable. Both candidates are a face of the same US imperialist coin to people living outside the US. Might be different for those living in the US though.

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