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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Trump’s plan for Gaza and peace in the Middle East to let Israel kill absolutely everyone that they want to.

    Anyone who thinks Trump would produce a better outcome for the people of Gaza is not thinking clearly.

    In the current political system, voting for a third party in earnest or in protest (for national offices) is a blatant waste of your vote

    By all means, vote in third party candidates in local, county and even state elections. Vote to eliminate the electoral college. VOTE for Ranked-Choice/Instant Runoff voting.

    These are the ways to break the two party deadlock.

    Jill Stein has co-opted the Green Party, and turned it into a blatant pro-trump shill organization, on behalf of Russia/Putin.

    Greens once ran good candidates across the country who won a fair number of local races and took office in places where they could have a good positive effect. No more. Sadly that party has been swindled and hoodwinked by a putinist grifter.


  • I’ll agree that Dems have given up way too easily, mostly based on naive “for the good of the country” white knighting.

    It probably didn’t start with Al Gore and the hanging chads, but that would have been a good time to realize that sometimes these fights are existential

    Doesn’t change the fact that Stein is currently a russian-funded spoiler and she’s a drag on the Greens and does great disservice to all of the non-major parties.

    I hope No Labels and other serious ‘third paries’ spend time focusing on voting reform like RCV or similar. Of course, many nerds will (probably correctly) claim that RCV is flawed in whatever way and we should try to move to some other even more complicated system. And then nothing will happen and we will continue to be stuck in a bi-party system with smaller factions only ever having the opportunity to act as spoilers in national or even state-wide races.











  • Certainly if she has been trying to effect real change in a realistic way, rather than an egocentric impossible run at the presidency…

    Things would have been different. She was one of many straws, which if subtracted, would have prevented trump

    So for that and that alone, she and the rest of the greens can fuck right off.

    See the No Labels folks for a more common sense way to be activist on national level politics.

    Greens would be great if they would focus on good, winnable races from the bottom up…

    What that called again?? Uhh ‘grass roots’


  • I actually read your article, and I wholly disagree.

    Facts matter, truth matters and without the A students we would be even further down the road to Idiocracy, which ofc looks more like a future-documentary every day.

    Your brand of “it’s all stupid, so join the stupid train” seems designed to appeal to people who want to be stupid. Or you could call yourself ignorant, if you prefer.

    In any case, the anti-intellect position that you promote may have a basis in reality (headline hippos) but it is far from a positive contribution.

    You can do better.