She went out to the Dakota pipeline over Labor Day weekend where the Sioux are protesting and now faces vandalism charges for spray painting bulldozers.
On the one hand, she should know better because as a third party candidate who syphons more votes from the "lesser of two evils" as she would put it, a lot of people are looking for an excuse to KO her from the race. At the least, this will put a dent into her campaign budget.
On the other hand, I've been reading what the company did to the protestors over the weekend, and I'm wondering where the criminal investigation is for them. If Dr. Stein is not going to get off the hook for what I would call criminal mischief, the people that pepper sprayed and let attack dogs loose on Native American protestors better not get a free pass, which is assault and battery at the very least.
I'm kinda pissed off at her for "And I approve this message." This isn't the time to remind us you're voting for president (but have a snowball's chance in hell because the Green Party isn't on the ballot in enough states to win 270 even if all of them go Green).
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No. That would constitute a protest vote or blind faith in ideological purity, which is the only vote they've sought since Ralph Nader (meaning ever). If I voted Green I would join the party and either work to clean out their ranks so this is at the least brought back down to earth along with a more rigorous platform... or get kicked out of the party for spreading ideological impurity.
My money's on the latter. There's nothing a political fringe group hates more than the slightly different.
EDIT: At least on the left. The alt-right all seems like one big happy family. Never really noticed that distinction before.
At the end of the day, fringers gonna fringe. Crank magnetism is still very much a thing, which is why you can find antivaxers and other alties all over the place.
Enough with the extreme left and the extreme right. It's the extreme center (Think Third Way and No Labels.) that gives me the willies.
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"As much as the 'Sandernistas' attempt to disarticulate Sanders 'progressive' domestic policies from his documented support for empire," Baraka said. "It should be obvious that his campaign is an ideological prop—albeit from a center/left position—of the logic and interests of the capitalist-imperialist settler state."
Could someone unpack this for me? What does this mean, why do I get the feeling it's just "Arabs hijacking indigenous issues yet again", and why the hell do the Greens think insulting Bernie Sanders is a good way to get his supporters?
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Carson got in trouble at one point for arguing that we're giving kids "way too many [vaccines] in too short a time". It's not full-on anti-vaxxer/autism stuff, but it's still pretty dangerous advice.
Actually, "too many, too soon" is their new favorite canard. Mostly because at this point, mercury scares are something like
Never mind that you're exposed to more unique strains of bacteria while going through the ******.
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She is definitely extremely crazy and the Green Party needs a more pragmatic approach similar to what the Libertarian Party has done ever since they got Johnson to defect to them in 2012. This is especially true as the Democrats continue their transformation into the white-collar, cosmopolitan party. Greens have a big opportunity to pick up working class individuals.
Greens have less appeal to the working class than Democrats. They're the college campus drum circle party. The party that's making real inroads on blue-collar workers is the GOP, thanks to Trump's populist noise. Pennsylvania is probably a battleground state this year.
Yeah, mostly because of the Joe Lieberman wing of the Democratic Party's dominance in recent decades. (Note that the Joe Lieberman wing is also racist, but they're better at hiding it. For instance, they were in favor of Bush's guest worker program, which was opposed by the National Council of La raza. So naturally they now portray Dems who aligned with the National Council of La Raza as anti-immigrant. *sigh* Go figure.)
The GOP makes inroads among blue-collar white workers. Mostly because of the Joe Lieberman wing's dominance in the Democratic Party.
The Greens are...back in the 60s, there was a certain type of leftist the FBI never targeted because, well, they were too nuts to be relevant. You know the type, the ones with utopian dreams and "Step 3: PROFIT!" means of getting there. I always called them lotus liberals. That's the Green Party.
The only thing I'll grant the Greens is, they weren't responsible for 2000. More Florida Democrats voted for Bush than for Nader. Because they were the Joe Lieberman wing of the Democratic Party, and the Joe Lieberman wing of the Democratic Party's only job is to lose.
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Her support for anti-vax and homeopathy automatically puts her on my "stupid and/or wacko" list.
She also just seems to have come out of nowhere and runs for the White House every four years. It's a bit presumptive (and yes, I know, Donald Trump does the same thing; I mean, strictly speaking, Johnson has more experience than Trump, but that's for another thread) to run for the White House with so little experience. I mean, even the classic 'outsider' candidate is usually just 'a congressman, governor, state legislator, or the mayor of a major city'.
In any case, "there are still questions [about vaccines]" is classic FUD.
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I'm kinda pissed off at her for "And I approve this message." This isn't the time to remind us you're voting for president (but have a snowball's chance in hell because the Green Party isn't on the ballot in enough states to win 270 even if all of them go Green).
On phasing:
At the end of the day, fringers gonna fringe. Crank magnetism is still very much a thing, which is why you can find antivaxers and other alties all over the place.
Enough with the extreme left and the extreme right. It's the extreme center (Think Third Way and No Labels.) that gives me the willies.
On phasing:
"As much as the 'Sandernistas' attempt to disarticulate Sanders 'progressive' domestic policies from his documented support for empire," Baraka said. "It should be obvious that his campaign is an ideological prop—albeit from a center/left position—of the logic and interests of the capitalist-imperialist settler state."
Could someone unpack this for me? What does this mean, why do I get the feeling it's just "Arabs hijacking indigenous issues yet again", and why the hell do the Greens think insulting Bernie Sanders is a good way to get his supporters?
On phasing:
Actually, "too many, too soon" is their new favorite canard. Mostly because at this point, mercury scares are something like
Never mind that you're exposed to more unique strains of bacteria while going through the ******.
On phasing:
Yeah, mostly because of the Joe Lieberman wing of the Democratic Party's dominance in recent decades. (Note that the Joe Lieberman wing is also racist, but they're better at hiding it. For instance, they were in favor of Bush's guest worker program, which was opposed by the National Council of La raza. So naturally they now portray Dems who aligned with the National Council of La Raza as anti-immigrant. *sigh* Go figure.)
The GOP makes inroads among blue-collar white workers. Mostly because of the Joe Lieberman wing's dominance in the Democratic Party.
The Greens are...back in the 60s, there was a certain type of leftist the FBI never targeted because, well, they were too nuts to be relevant. You know the type, the ones with utopian dreams and "Step 3: PROFIT!" means of getting there. I always called them lotus liberals. That's the Green Party.
The only thing I'll grant the Greens is, they weren't responsible for 2000. More Florida Democrats voted for Bush than for Nader. Because they were the Joe Lieberman wing of the Democratic Party, and the Joe Lieberman wing of the Democratic Party's only job is to lose.
On phasing:
She also just seems to have come out of nowhere and runs for the White House every four years. It's a bit presumptive (and yes, I know, Donald Trump does the same thing; I mean, strictly speaking, Johnson has more experience than Trump, but that's for another thread) to run for the White House with so little experience. I mean, even the classic 'outsider' candidate is usually just 'a congressman, governor, state legislator, or the mayor of a major city'.
In any case, "there are still questions [about vaccines]" is classic FUD.
On phasing: