Greta Thunberg's performative activism: Arrest staged?
New footage seems to show that everyone's favorite climate change crisis actor, Greta Thunberg, staged her arrest.
I’m sure by this point in history, there are few people who don’t know who Greta Thunberg is, but if that’s you then I’ll give you a quick run down.
Greta Thunberg is a supposedly autistic girl from Sweden who occasionally finds time between magazine shoots and interviews to stage half-hearted protests as photo opportunities. Thunberg rose to fame after inexplicably being allowed to speak at a United Nations Climate Action Summit, merely a year after she started her activism career. Talk about a meteoric rise to prominence.
Thunberg was paraded around until CNN induced her ‘jumping the shark’ moment by having her do a “Global Town Hall” about covid back in May of 2020, watched by as many as 8 people. Thunberg was only 17 at the time, and the tweet advertising the event is comedy gold.
As for these days, Greta Thunberg can be seen trying to recapture that brief glimmer of fame by staging protests once again, hoping mainstream media will again adopt her as their darling to dupe low information voters with lies, half-truths, and misrepresentations of facts.
At a protest concerning expansion of a mine called the Garzweiler 2, roughly 6 miles away from the village of Luetzerath located in western Germany, Greta Thunberg and her merry band of handlers got into a heated situation with police officers who were threatening to remove them by force if they didn’t vacate the area near the edge of the mine in question and taken to a different area for an identity check, as if the infamous Greta “How Dare You” Thunberg needs any checks to verify who she is.
Call me crazy, but the German idea of ‘using force’ seems to resemble a photo opportunity rather than any show of might to force belligerent protesters to cooperate with authorities and their commands.
Many of the people in the video, includingThunberg herself can be seen joking around and laughing as she is ‘arrested’, but not before stopping several times to pose for photos. An unnamed male companion of Thunberg’s even jokes about taking selfies with the police officers and Thunberg herself while the media is allowed plenty of time and opportunities to film and photograph Thunberg’s supposed arrest.
The arresting officers are clad in riot gear and as such, their faces are obscured by helmets and masks, making it impossible to ascertain whether they are police officers at all, or merely costumed actors putting on a show for the media.
You might remember a similar scenario where members of “The Squad” — a far-left extremist caucus in the House of Representatives — pretended to get arrested in Washington D.C. during an abortion protest held in the wake of the overturning of Row v. Wade. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar, most famously.
It’s the preferred leftist playbook for cheap publicity, pretending for one brief moment that they themselves have to actually adhere to the same rules as the rest of us, when we know from many, many situations such as Nancy Pelosi’s lockdown salon visit, or Gavin Newsom’s fancy restaurant outings during lockdowns he himself imposed, that the left does not prosecute themselves.
It’s what is referred to in marketing as “humanizing your brand”. Because let’s face it — AOC and Greta Thunberg are people, yes, but they’re also brands in and of themselves. All political figures are, because they whore themselves out for all manner of undeserved compensation in exchange for dirty deals and services to their benefactors.
Of course we can also remember how Jussie Smollett tried this very same maneuver in order to stoke political and racial tensions by staging the infamous hoax attack on himself at the hands of ‘Trump supporters’, but it backfired spectacularly and led to him losing his job on the TV show Empire as well as having to serve some jail time. This was one instance where staging a hoax went horribly wrong for the hoaxer.
The point is this — always take any reports about events that are adverse to leftists with a grain of salt. I’m not telling you to forego all empathy, just hold out until the facts present themselves and formulate your views based on those facts.
Truthfully I don’t even like having to play the left vs right game, but when the left constantly lies and attempts to fabricate the reality they want rather than accepting reality as it is, that’s when I have a problem.
A society rooted in fantasy is doomed to fail. Just look at public schools. But that’s another story for another time.