Description: A picture titled “Russian plants” in a 3 x 3 grid with one of the grid items being Jill Stein, the rest are flora.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2024
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This is missing some plants in the gene family "conservative / republican"
It sucks that common mugwort is still illegal here in Indiana. Thankfully, there's a dispensary about 30 minutes away in Illinois.
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Can't speak for many of the rest, but jade plants are from southern Africa. I demand geophylogenetically accurate memes.
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Oh man! Making the russian flag out of her and using her hair as the white is golden!
Actually it's white
No one person, thing, or organization I regularly interact with has tried as hard as lemmy.world to convince me she is some kinda fucked up spoiler effect politics demon.
Maybe dems should actually try to make ranked choice voting happen for real, instead of lip service to the idea, if they want the people who prefer third parties to support them. And maybe dems should attempt to do anything at all to address the concerns of the third party voters, instead of just threatening them with trump some more. Just some ideas that might alleviate the problem more effectively than getting really mad at people on the internet.
"And maybe they should do it RIGHT NOW, and maybe I'll vote then but it'll still be for not Dems, and maybe they should also stop genocide, and maybe maybe maybe. .."
Did I capture your full wishlist there? Anything else you'd like now without regard for how long it takes?
Let's be real here, Harris could bend over backwards and support every single one of their positions and they still would find an excuse not to vote for her. It's not about actually achieving anything. If they actually cared about Palestinians then they'd work with the one viable candidate who could work towards a ceasefire (and Harris has openly said she wants a ceasefire and two-state solution, don't give me that "both sides" bullshit. You know Trump is worse) instead of throwing away their vote and pushing nothingburger parties that can't achieve anything in the current system and siphon votes away from the only viable party who could achieve a ceasefire.
If they really cared about moving the country forward, they'd be working from within to push the Dems leftwards so that they might get what they want. Change doesn't happen in a day, and it certainly won't happen through third parties. In a FPTP system, change must happen from within.
Isn't that what they tried with Bernie? How many times should Charlie Brown try to kick that football?
It takes more than just Bernie and the Squad. They're very much a step in the right direction, but the movement needs to be larger than that. Right now progressives don't have enough seats in Parliament to be considered a serious threat. Change that, and we might start seeing serious progress. Until then, everyone should be working on the local and state level to push progressive politicians in office and most importantly working to keep regressives out.
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US Greens are damned traitors to democracy itself.
You can tell they aren’t serious by the lack of local political effort they put in.
(This post was accidentally edited in an attempt to reply to someone else, this is an in-exact re-creation of what the comment said)
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I must be too American to understand this one ^^;
Stien is the nominee for one of the worthless 3rd parties we have here. The only people who vote for her are narcissists who call trump Hitler but are okay with letting him win by throwing away their votes so they can pretend to be extra liberal. In some ways they are just as bad as trump supporters.
Divide-and-conquer just enough to let bush win, then trump.
It's because of these bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL mY pUriTeH assholes that we got the Iraq invasion, the Kyoto Protocol global warming agreement being ignored and discarded, the indifferent federal response to the Katrina disaster in New Orleans, children in cages separated from their immigrant parents, the sluggish response to Covid, etc.
The world an objectively worse place via republican excrement policies, none of which would have happened if these narcissistic assholes weren't enamored of the stench of their own mUh PuRiTeH! flatulences to see a clear and present danger in front of our noses.
In a way they're worse. At least MAGAs are open about being shitty people and don't pretend otherwise. Stein supporters will act smug and superior ("I didn't vote for Trump directly, so my hands are totally clean!") while they let Trump fuck everyone (Gaza included) over. They're so focused on what's happening across the ocean that they don't care about the dumpster fire happening at home unless they can use it as ammunition to push "BoTh SiDeS" bullshit.
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I find it hilarious how democrats would rather go on a pathetic smear campaign against Jill Stein instead of actually making real concessions and bringing people back to vote for Kamala. I, as a European, hope your democracy works exactly as designed. Maybe you'll wake up that way.
who besides dems should go after her? trump wins if she wins. https://www.newsweek.com/jill-stein-ties-vladimir-putin-explained-1842620
I think the dems should rather focus on actually making good policy that mobilizes people to go out and vote rather than try to kick political opponents off the ballot (which is fairly undemocratic)
I sat on a stinging nettle a few years ago when I had a mostly outdoor job. Now I am an expert in identifying them.
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