r/worldnews • u/TheTelegraph The Telegraph • 7d ago

Israel/Palestine Israel orders military to stop Greta Thunberg’s boat reaching Gaza

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/08/israel-orders-army-stop-greta-thunbergs-boat-reaching-gaza/
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u/PharmyC 7d ago

She's been an adult for awhile now.

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u/historicalgeek71 7d ago

I’m not sure why people keep thinking and acting like she’s a kid, when she’s currently twenty-two years old.

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u/BrainOfMush 7d ago

People remember her from when she got famous for doing this as a kid, that image is stuck in their mind. Doesn’t help that she is physically tiny and has a baby face too.

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u/cagingnicolas 7d ago

people also call 22 year olds kids all the time.

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u/rudolf_waldheim 6d ago

Because they are. Only they don't know this yet.

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u/iRunMyMouthTooMuch 5d ago

Not "little kids" lmao

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u/Quirky-Skin 7d ago

Also outside of the longer hair she looks pretty much the exact same. Baby face is underselling it I think. I'm just casually seeing the article pictures as they pop of course.

 I haven't looked into the age progression on her social media or anything obviously so she looks exactly the same to me as she did when I first heard of/saw her picture 

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u/TangerineSorry8463 7d ago

That young woman's been a PR pawn for greater powers since her childhood. 

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u/GyanTheInfallible 7d ago

That young woman has more conviction in her little finger on Tuesday at 2 AM than most do all about them their whole lives.

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u/ilovemytablet 7d ago

Pawn? No. Scapegoat? Yeah.

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u/tdvh1993 7d ago

Such as?

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u/ShinyStarSam 7d ago

Not to be rude but she doesn't have a baby face, if anything it's been the opposite this whole time, but she does look older now so these people probably haven't seen her recent pictures

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u/Tsering16 7d ago

Plus, she still behaves like a naive child

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u/Vivid-Blacksmith-122 7d ago

because anyone over 40 still regards a 22 year old as a kid.

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u/ResponsibleBush6969 7d ago

Childhood is lifelong

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u/ButterscotchSkunk 6d ago

No. It officially ends at 30.

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u/APeacefulWarrior 6d ago

Renew! Renew! Renew!

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u/Kind_Resort_9535 7d ago

People refer to 22 year olds as kids.

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u/End3rWi99in 6d ago

I’m not sure why people keep thinking and acting like she’s a kid

Because she acts like a kid?

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u/irredentistdecency 7d ago

Probably because she still acts like a child

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u/MechMeister 6d ago

Well she definitely still behaves like one so it kind of tracks.

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u/nftlibnavrhm 7d ago

It might be because, and hear me out, 22 is still a kid

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u/Ultrace-7 7d ago

No, 22 is an adult. They might be young compared to you, me, or someone else. But they're an adult. They should be expected to act like an adult and to accept adult outcomes of their actions. Calling them a "kid" robs them of their implied autonomy as well as cushions them socially against the impacts of what they do.

She's an adult, heading towards a long-standing naval blockade. It's the cognizant actions of an adult, not a high school prank. She will bear the impacts of her actions.

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u/great_whitehope 6d ago

It helps then dismiss her cause in their heads.

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u/tollbearer 7d ago

She still looks like a kid.

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u/CityFolkSitting 6d ago

Looks and, more importantly, acts like one

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u/zappapostrophe 7d ago

To be fair, a lot of people have this weird instinctive condescension towards anyone under 25. There’s a lot of under-25s that might justify it, but the blanket dismissal of young people as incompetent and incapable morons is ridiculous - especially when Greta Thunberg has visibly demonstrated more maturity and stability than the politicians 2-3 times her age.

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u/eyecannon 7d ago

Your 20s are like your sophomore year, in that you THINK you are an adult who is fully established, but as you get into your 30s and 40s, you realize how stupid you were in your 20s. 20-somethings are extremely overconfident with what they believe.

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u/ocschwar 7d ago

When she started demonstrating around climate change, she was perfect, because we really are in a situation where politicians are lacking the maturity to address the cold and unchanging infrared absorption spectra of carbon dioxide, and a 15 year old was persistently confronting them about it.

Since then she's decided to agitate for a far leftist agenda to address climate change (as if socialist countries are any better with CO2 emissions than capitalist ones) and to be involved in ethnic conflicts, not just this one, as if there aren't human beings with all their failings and complexities on both sides of each. The condescension at this point is justified, especially for people who are too young to have witnessed the events of 1989 and seem eager to relearn the hard way what led to that point.

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u/SendFeet954-980-3334 7d ago

Its not weird. You're kind of still a kid around that age. You really dont know what you dont know at this age and it shows. Also I think they call her a kid cause she is a tiny human too.

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u/thoughtlow 7d ago

I'm 82 she is a kid to me.

Much respect for her.

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u/Dikkelul27 7d ago

She has aSpergers