Posted on 12/14/2019 6:59:34 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Greta Thunberg apologized Saturday after saying that politicians should be put "against the wall” after some critics alleged that the teen climate activist was advocating for violence against officials.
“Yesterday I said we must hold our leaders accountable and unfortunately said “put them against the wall”. That’s Swenglish: “att ställa någon mot väggen” (to put someone against the wall) means to hold someone accountable,” Thunberg tweeted.
“That’s what happens when you improvise speeches in a second language. But of course I apologise if anyone misunderstood this. I can not enough express the fact that I - as well as the entire school strike movement- are against any possible form of violence. It goes without saying but I say it anyway,” she continued.
Thunberg joined thousands of students in the Italian city of Turin Friday for a protest to push the country’s government to take greater action to curb carbon emissions. She traveled to the city from Madrid after attending a United Nations climate summit in Spain.
Thunberg told the crowd in Turin that world leaders are running away from their responsibilities to address carbon emissions and fight climate change, the Associated Press reported.
“We have to make sure that they cannot do that," she said. "We will make sure they, that we put them against the wall, and that they will have to do their job and to protect our futures."
In Swedish, the phrase “putting someone against the wall” means someone is forced to address difficult questions of a difficult situation.”
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She and all the ecofascists, indeed many of the big Leftists all need a better view of the situation. Perhaps they all need to take helicopter rides.
I’m willing to accept her excuse. When you read the full quote it doesn’t sound like she meant firing squads.
Just don’t say Trump is being treated with a lynch mob mentality, because we all know what that means, regardless of context
Has Time pulled her person of the year designation yet?
The Hitler youth
Unfortunate. She is apologizing for the first thing she’s said I wholeheartedly agree with...
Girl, don’t backpedal on any statement of how our politicians should be rewarded for their spectacular leadership since 1946. It really worked well for DJT.
This wretched propaganda tool should be put in a straight jacket and fed a diet of Thorazine for a couple of decades.
Please, please, please!!!
We can hope.
“improvise speeches”?
She doesn’t improvise anything she says. It’s 100% scripted (just like “reality” shows on TV). Everything is written for her by either her dimwit parents or one of george soros’ minions. She’s nothing more than an angry little sock puppet.
if she were a dude, i would listen to him.
But hey she’s got those pricey reusable water bottles though.
“Scoldilocks”
LOL
“they relate and believe their own suffering is directly tied with the planet suffering.”
Then they should “off” themselves instead of being a burden on the planet.
IIRC the next photo and many more like it is at the Holocaust museum in Washington DC.
If anyone wants an idea as to what little greta, her handlers, and everyone else on the left wants to do to the rest of us, just go to the museum.
Its too late to apologize! A declaration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfRaWAtBVg
You just mean that they fell asleep in their recliner watching the aquarium.
Simple misunderstanding.
The original line was:
Om jag hade haft min väg, skulle jag ha alla skjutit!
He knew what “put them agains a wall” means in every language. Al Paredon!
Have you watched her? There’s obviously a diminished capacity there.
When she speaks, she’s ‘polly-parroting’, and as someone else said, ‘acting’.
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