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.”
SNIP
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I expect it means the same in Swedish as it does in English...
We are suddenly accountable to a precocious, autistic, sixteen year old who knows absolutely nothing about anything—including the climate. What fools the media has become.
Thank you, brother, thank you ^^
Greta needs to meet Mohammed.
yet the left calls Trump a bully for tweeting her about her anger issues........but she is a angry girl
Well, in that case everything is cool.
Now I don’t have to be concerned that mentally ill EnviroTards (redundancy) hate me and want me to die.
“When I am king
You will be first against the wall
With your opinion
Which is of no consequence at all”
Written by Ray Wylie Hubbard
*** Greta the Dropout ***
Greta the Donut.
Barely starting, I think you meant.
Hardcore individual it appears. And not in a good way.
Greta Thunberg’s Tesla Littered With Single-Use Plastic Garbage
That guy is smiling.
Goya’s painting “The Third of May” shows what being put up against the wall means.
And the whore media shakes their fist at DJT for telling this little nutbag to chill, and go see a movie? Once again out Glorious Leader is shown to be prescient.
You do. She’s the enemy. Without hesitation she would stomp your throat.
Many sites attribute it to J J Walker.
Effect is still the same.
look at all those cans of Beans in her car , gas gas gas
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