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10 hours agoVoting is a pretty low bar for having an opportunity to make a difference with little effort, and only 42% managed that in the US.
What “opportunity” would 80% of people do better? She was skipping school to protest climate change at 15. She made her own opportunities.
If my 99.999% figure is worship, then the numbers you’re throwing around seem overly dismissive of her efforts, to put it lightly.
Yes, because she established herself as an outstanding activist. You act like she stumbled across a “famous activist” position on LinkedIn and has been half-assing it the whole time which is an absurd characterization of what she has done with her life.
Nobody is saying she “better” than you or your activist buddies, but she deserves a bit more respect for what she has accomplished than “bottom 20% of activists”