The Green Party leader has hired a GOP consulting firm and worked with Trump-affiliated lawyers

The Green Party leader has hired a GOP consulting firm and worked with Trump-affiliated lawyers.

  • darharrison@lemm.ee
    514·
    3 months ago

    “Anything to beat the ‘duopoly’ of political parties, even if the party is tainted by neo-fascist dark money!”

    Absolutely wild mental gymnastics lol

      • darharrison@lemm.ee
        4·
        2 months ago

        You can spare Lemmy the whataboutisms with this one. Everyone is taking a little money from everyone else, but:

        Neo-fascists absolutely prefer giving to the Republican Party above all other major parties and vice versa. It’s an open-and-shut case. Hardliners in the party routinely echo anything and everything that gets them brownie points from dictators and the country’s most degenerate billionaires.

        The Democratic Party is not perfect (Israel being the elephant in the room, but make no mistake, Bibi 100% wants Trump back in office). But if anyone is pushing back against the return of fascism the most it’s the Dems. And you can see that in hostilities from Republicans and authoritarian governments alike.

        The Green Party’s main candidate accepted gifts from the Russian Federation through their news network RT, which is basically a propaganda machine for the government which owns them. Stein’s ads openly said in 2016 that the Greens wanted Hillary to lose, fearmongering nuclear war with Russia. And this year it’s the same old shit with her: just make the Dems lose.

        (Side note, Sputnik hired PSL’s Eugene Puryear as a long-time host. Also, PSL also has absolutely insane foreign positions. Like I’ll be the first to say the West is absolutely an imperfect cultural entity, but you don’t gotta just hand it to Putin or Kim Jong Un because they also have a problem with the hegemony.)

        • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
          13·
          2 months ago

          You should maybe learn a bit more about “whataboutism” because you seem to not be aware of when to apply it.

          What I am saying is, if you dislike the green party because Russian money has made it into their coffers, but you won’t apply the same standard to democrats, then you are a hypocritical, and your message fails in my opinion.

          If you think the democrats have the strongest stance against facism, you don’t understand the meaning of the word facism.

          The democrats haven’t moved this country away from facism meaningfully in any way. They move the country towards profit, thats it. The republicans and democrats disagree on how to profit off the worlds misery and to what extent, but both are fascists.

          The irony that americans can’t see how close republicans and democrats are in their intolerance and abuse of others.

          Democrats: “We want to abuse non-white folk in other countries for profit!”

          Republicans: “we want to abuse our own people to make profit!”

          If you really think anyone who’s critical of the democrats is a shill or some other bullshit, then I wish you the best but thats a childish perspective.