More Ships Join Greta Thunberg's Gaza Flotilla to Break Blockade | Sweden Herald
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Further ten ships will join the fleet with Greta Thunberg and other activists who will sail towards Gaza to break Israel's blockade
  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialEnglish
    133·
    5 days ago

    Once again, it bears repeating that it’s not Greta Thunberg’s flotilla, but the flotilla put together by other people that Greta Thunberg hitches her name and fame to.

    • TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish
      551·
      5 days ago

      I think a better connotation would be “lends.” Greta Thunberg lends her name and fame to.

      The media would care a lot less about the flotilla if it didn’t have a household name onboard. “Hitches” implies Thunberg is doing it for her own benefit. “Lends” has the opposite implication.

        • TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish
          181·
          5 days ago

          Same as you guys. You where nowhere to be found when the last one without her tried to break the siege

          I’m sorry I, a random dude in the Midwest, didn’t know about a thing happening in the Mediterranean that no one told me about. I’m so ashamed. /s

          What exactly is your point?

            • TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish
              8·
              5 days ago

              My point is the greta derrangement syndrome you only care about the flotilla when she is there and she is not you don’t care

              It’s not that people don’t care. It’s that people don’t know. That’s my entire point. Media pays more attention because a name people know is involved.

              If people aren’t talking about it, other people won’t hear about it. That’s why “famous” people get involved, to bring attention to it.

              “Greta derangement syndrome”?

              • Coupable@lemmy.world
                6·
                5 days ago

                No, he said “greta derrangement syndrome”, not “Greta derangement syndrome”. The difference is he doesn’t know how to fucking spell :D

                • Anas@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  5 days ago

                  Of course, but her being there brings more visibility that the previous one didn’t have.

                  • mrdown@lemmy.world
                    1·
                    5 days ago

                    I love that she is there but i would like to hear credits for all of them. For example Chris small who never new about him before was the most abused by the idf

        • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
          6·
          5 days ago

          Then it sounds like it should be celebrated that someone with significant presence on the world stage lends their name, bringing the news of this flotilla to further reaches.

          It’s hardly my fault if news about the previous one did not reach widespread audiences. I would have loved to have followed it, too. I simply never saw anything about it.

      • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialEnglish
        24·
        5 days ago

        I used that term entirely on purpose: you are indeed correct that Greta Thunberg helps the operation by giving it the press time it wouldn’t have without her. But the operation itself helps her stay in the limelight, which is kind of her entire job at this point.

        It’s mutually beneficial: her brand and the Palestine operation help each other. And there’s nothing wrong with that.

    • mrdown@lemmy.world
      38·
      5 days ago

      You ruined it at the end. It’s flottilas which Greta is member of. Greta like all the other members are risking their lives.