Greta Thunberg tweet:

[George II]

Link to tweet

[kentuck]

1. Malala!

Wow!

[ffr]

2. First to REC

[DURHAM D]

3. Check this out -

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213016813#post1

[SunSeeker]

4. Mine too. nt

[zentrum]

5. Mine Too! And Greta too!

[Evolve Dammit]

6. Awesome! We need strong women. Most old men are incapable of anything but raping the planet

for profit. Not all, but most and doesn't matter what continent you live on. Greed, ignoring facts about the impact and corporations who have very minimal accountability are destroying earth.

[Duppers]

7. Truth.

Glad you said not all, because I live with a pretty good old coot.

[DemocracyMouse]

15. Please stop the agism and the sexism. It's not making your planetary concerns look good

I've had a female boss make passes at me twice and then undercut my career when I refused to have sex with her.

I've had female bosses who refused to provide a living wage and knowingly allowed me to survive the job by sleeping on my office floor.

I've had female colleagues of higher rank create a false report to demode me when threatened by competition from someone with a more technical background.

I've seen an entire cluster of women at work create a myth, question the myth, then stick to it for fear of being caught.

I've seen a female CEO deny obvious evidence, contradict a major union rep, and fire someone for the myth concocted above.

I've seen that same CEO refuse to pay for a plan produced by an outside contractor, implement the plan and have the company guards harass the unpaid creator of the plan.

I've seen an equal number of men in my personal life do similar things.

So please check your prejudices at the door.

[Pacifist Patriot]

22. I understand.

Women can be assholes too, and not all men are. The poster above does explicitly say the reference isn't to all men.

Yet it's a mistake not to recognize that the halls of power have been overwhelmingly populated by males for millennia. We really don't know what equitable governance that includes female voices would be like. The stand out examples of female rulers throughout history is largely the story of women who seem to have contorted themselves to govern with a masculine voice.

I'm sorry you were mistreated by women, they should be held accountable for that behavior.

Please try to understand that women are very much aware of how little power they have wielded up to this point and extremely frustrated by it. The poster above is making a macro level observation. Both of you have valid points to make.

[DemocracyMouse]

24. I hear your macro level point, but the vibe in the original post was that women were...

inherently superior. The real problem is power, the biological emergent systems behind that power, and our inability to think clearly (and biologically) to address the accumulation of power). Voting for Mr. Sanders, who has transcended his youthful lack of tact and various trendy blurtings (as has every other candidate) to fully address the extreme eccumulation of power in the United States. All that aside, there are certainly too many barriers to women and minorities from entering the halls of power. May they, once there, not become "same as the old boss" to quote the Who! 😃

[Pacifist Patriot]

27. I think the vibe is the frustration talking.

As for your last sentence, amen to that!!!

[Magoo48]

23. I recognize your concerns. I'm an old man.

But, it doesn’t matter how “planetary concerns” look. They will become the driving force behind all human activity in the next decade regardless of how anything looks. Humans will act too late and next generations will suffer for it.

I recognize why the anger of youth is directed where it is. Even though many of us were paying attention, our generation did little or nothing in light of clear and mounting scientific evidence. We dropped the fucking ball.

[DemocracyMouse]

25. Some of us, frankly, have been fighting idiocy for a long time and won't give up.

One builds up certain emotional endurance muscles

[Evolve Dammit]

17. I'm one too!

[bullwinkle428]

8. I see great things in their future - beyond what they've already accomplished!

[zipplewrath]

10. It may be the only hope

I'm fairly skeptical about the future. But I do see some hope in the youth and especially the acceptance of them of all genders being involved.

[warmfeet]

9. I want this to be a serious trend.

This is the future I want. Young people, especially women, can change this world. There is a whole bunch of changing that's needed. It can happen, and it will happen.

[LAS14]

11. k & r

[lastlib]

12. Two of the best young representatives of the human race!

--- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---

When the aliens come, and say, "Take me to your leader," I'm taking them to these two! F*CK TRUMP!!

[rurallib]

13. In my mind Trumpy quakes in fear at the picture of those two together.

I hope they are the world's future

[Kitchari]

14. Love this!

What an inspiration

[CaptYossarian]

16. I still want these two idols to combine forces with

the Parkland students and fix this wretched planet.

The white man in charge experiment failed. That's why Senator Warren appears in my message box (Harris and Booker would have also worked).

[Evolve Dammit]

18. I would love to see a coalition of these groups, and you are right about all the candidates above.

[CaptYossarian]

19. Apologies to the Klobuchar supporters.

Minnesota hasn't had much luck in the past (Humphrey & Mondale), but I like her too.

[Evolve Dammit]

29. God, those two men are soo far better than what we have come to.

[CaptYossarian]

30. Humphrey's problem was LBJ and the unpopular war.

Mondale's problem was lack of charisma next to Satan--I mean Reagan.

Their knowledge and skills would have been tremendous. Unfortunately, both elections were also stolen by way of fraud.

I didn't bring up MN's Harold Stassen (the poster boy for losing), who ran for president NINE times for the GOP from 1944 to 1992. He was a perennial punchline.

[Evolve Dammit]

31. Wasn't Humphrey diagnosed with cancer during the election? And yes, Mondale was very dry.

[CaptYossarian]

32. I see he was diagnosed in 1974 and that may have led to him not running in '76.

[lame54]

20. The future

[DURHAM D]

21. I was wondering where they met -

Greta met Malala: young activists pictured together in Oxford

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg met Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai at Britain’s University of Oxford on Tuesday and posed for a photo together.

Yousafzai, widely known by her first name, Malala, is a student at the University of Oxford. The 22-year-old posted a photo on Instagram of herself and Thunberg sitting on a bench with their arms around each other, with a caption “Thank you, @gretathunberg” and a heart emoji.

Thunberg, 17, is in the United Kingdom to join a school strike in Bristol on Friday.

Did not realize Malala is at Oxford.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-climatechange-greta-britain/greta-met-malala-young-activists-pictured-together-in-oxford-idUKKBN20J276

[duforsure]

26. Two powerful women

Changing the world for the better. What great role models they both are.

[BobTheSubgenius]

28. Those two...

...oh, man.

Now I'll borrow her words - "what else can I say?"