Political Memes

I think if a third party were deeply serious about wanting to establish a viable political movement. They’d try building up at the local level first, the presidency should be one of the last steps of becoming “legitimate”, the unsexy local elections are where you build up support at being treated as a serious political movement. Instead, most current third party runs tend to feel like either spoiler campaigns and/or vanity campaigns, where I’m not even sure what good it would do them on the miraculous chance they happened to win the presidency, since third parties in general don’t have much presence in Congress. There’s like four “independent” members of Congress right now, good luck getting any of your third party platform initiatives done with likely no Congressional support.

The whole thing is money, all the way down. It's only slightly different from rooting for your favorite sportsball stars until the electoral college (among other things) is brought into the modern age. The sooner these Cold War relics are out of office worldwide, the better our entire species' chances get.

Russia is doing this to fringe parties all over Europe – it simply doesn't matter to them whether they are left or right or whatever. So you get communist, leftist, fascist and populist parties all repeating Putin's phrases. And in this case, the green party's candidate.

I read that as puppy without principles and was like 🥺

A-fucking-men.

They can say they're voting green because the Democrats are too conservative for them, but if that's their go-to excuse then I'd say it's time to dump them now no? The party they support is just a lie to get conservatives in office.

Funny how she only pops up during presidential elections and doesn't seem to give two shits about the green party during literally any other election.

Look I'm not the smartest person but I genuinely don't know what the answer is. Can you tell me what page of the back of the book it's on?

I wish it was, meaning ultimate as in "final", so they won't bring up that Enlightened Centrist bullshit again..

Not even sure if she's a tankie as much as just a complete asshole

I agree both that there is a nuance in the difference strong enough to make the tweet in the post misleading/incorrect, and that Jill Stein is still nonetheless actively a bad-faith candidate who wishes for Trump to win

“vote her if not Trump”,

Sounds like Stein puts up a clear either/or choice for people. In other words, if you aren't voting for the weird orange felon, deprive Kamala Harris of a vote, and everyone knows Jill hasn't a chance in hell of winning. It is not nuanced at all.

If jill Stein and the green party were serious about being elected then they'd be supporting state and local green party candidates. You never hear about jill Stein at midterm elections stumping for congressional seats.

The greens aren't a serious political party, they're cosplayers running a pyramid scheme

Indeed. She's liking people talking about voting for her if they're unsatisfied with their current party...the photo of her with Putin at the RT dinner has much worse optics I don't think people need to deep dive into generic instagram likes.

Speaking of, Canada is potentially taking a second swing at electoral reform soon. Who knows... Good timeline, it might kick something off