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enough to just laud two great women without taking a dig?
Or am I 100% off base? And hopefully you didn't mean to sound that way
Apologies in advance.
That's how much these two should be admired.
All I can find is quotes about how she fears for her "Afghan sisters." Nothing about her being in Afghanistan herself. (There are lots of videos, but I don't have time to watch those right now.)
Unless and until someone comes up with a link to a story in a reputable source that says she's in Afghanistan, I remain unconvinced. 
EDITED TO ADD: Fwiw, I just found a New York Times article from 2020 about her graduation from Oxford. It says "she and her family relocated permanently to the UK" in 2012: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/world/europe/malala-oxford-graduation.html
shade on The Squad, George.
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez met Greta Thunberg: 'Hope is contagious'
One is America’s youngest-ever congresswoman, the other a Swedish schoolgirl. Two of the most powerful voices on the climate speak for the first time
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/29/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-met-greta-thunberg-hope-contagious-climate
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez enters a boardroom at her constituency office in Queens, New York, after a short delay which, a political aide hopes, hasn’t been caused by a constituent waylaying her in the corridor. (“They can get really excited to meet her.”) Greta Thunberg is in her home in Sweden, her father testing the technology for the video link while the teenager waits in the background. The activists have never met nor spoken but, as two of the most visible climate campaigners in the world, they are keenly aware of each other.
Thunberg, now 16, catapulted to fame last year for skipping school every Friday to stand outside the Swedish parliament, protesting against political inaction over the climate crisis and sparking an international movement, the school strike for climate, in which millions of other children followed suit. Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic Representative for New York’s 14th congressional district is, at 29, the youngest woman ever to serve in Congress, whose election over a well-funded incumbent in 2018 was a huge upset to politics-as-usual. She has been in office for less than a year, which seems extraordinary given the amount of coverage she has generated. In February, Ocasio-Cortez submitted the Green New Deal to the US House of Representatives, calling for, among other things, the achievement of “net-zero” greenhouse gases within a decade and “a full transition off fossil fuels”, as well as retrofitting all buildings in the US to meet new energy efficient standards.
The Green New Deal, while garnering support from Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar, was mocked by speaker Nancy Pelosi (“the green dream or whatever they call it”), and defeated in the Senate by Republicans. Like Thunberg, however, Ocasio-Cortez gives every appearance of being galvanised by opposition, and has the kind of energy that has won her 4.41 million Twitter followers and makes establishment politicians in her path very nervous.
In the course of their conversation, Ocasio-Cortez and Thunberg discuss what it is like to be dismissed for their age, how depressed we should be about the future, and what tactics, as an activist, really work. Ocasio-Cortez speaks with her customary snap and brilliance that, held up against the general waffle of political discourse, seems startlingly direct. Thunberg, meanwhile, is phenomenally articulate, well-informed and self-assured, holding her own in conversation with an elected official nearly twice her age and speaking in deliberate, thoughtful English. They are, in some ways, as different as two campaigners can get – the politician working the system with Washington polish, and the teenager in her socks and leggings, working from her bedroom to reach the rest of the world. There is something very moving about the conversation between these young women, a sense of generational rise that, as we know from every precedent from the Renaissance onwards, has the power to ignite movements and change history.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez It’s such an honour to meet you!
Greta Thunberg You, too!
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Obviously the Guardian was trying to make a point with their photoshop. I think they missed by a mile. Greta is leaning away from AOC. Looks like a side eye to me. Greta is leaning left and AOC has her head tipped right.
I think the Guardian struck out here. The body language tells the story.
JMHO.
You are right that this was a total messaging miss.
From the article, which looks like what George’s point was. 
“Democratic policy.” 
