Greta's white privilege

Do you ever wonder how the social media icons of our day become social media icons?

Take Greta, for example. A Swedish teen, lacking in the social graces and allegedly smitten with ass burgers, is plucked from obscurity, and overnight becomes the go-to expert on climate change.

Or Malala, youngest Nobel laureate ever. 

And who remembers Little Bana, the Syrian wunderkind revealing to the world the predations of the evil dictator Assad on Twitter in a language she couldn't even speak!

I took a look at their Twitter feeds today. Greta leads the way with 5M followers. Malala is next with 1.9M. Little Bana has almost disappeared, reflecting the West's loss of interest in bringing democracy and human rights to that benighted land, with a mere few hundred thousand followers.

Doesn't look right to me. Say what you will about Bana and her stage-managing mother; at least they had to survive an actual war.

And say what you will about Malala and her stage-manager father; she got shot in the head by the Taliban before she got famous.

And Greta? Well, there's those ass burgers, and the stage-managing parents, and the joy-ride on the five million dollar sailboat... but what price has she paid?

Smells like white privilege to me.

Whatever happened to Guevara?

Guevara was one of the first pop culture heroes who popped out of the so-called "Syrian civil war." She came out of nowhere to dominate pro-"rebel" propaganda for a few months.

Check out here and here. There's dozens of mainstream fluff pieces just like that to choose from.

That was such a compelling story. Too compelling. I caught the whiff of bullshit right away.

Then Guevara faded away... only to be replaced by the White Helmets fairy-tale, and Little Bana after that.

So why/how did she fade away?

Was her head blown off by a Russian sniper? If so, you'd think we'd have heard about it, because that's something that would have had immense propaganda value.

Maybe she found out her kids were still alive, and she didn't need to take revenge?

Or maybe, and I don't want to go all conspiracy here, but maybe, the narrative managers on her file realized the Sniper-Babe fable was so silly it was bound to be a liability in the long run. Once word got out that Guevara was entirely imaginary, the Clinton crowd feared their Syrian war-mongering could lose a lot of cred.

Those first responders, on the other hand, are the real thing. They actually exist. We know that because we've been funding them to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Just ask Le Mesurier.

Oh, I forgot... he did an Epstein to prevent the shit from hitting the fan.


Anyway, that's speculation. I'm only wondering what happened to Guevara.