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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the greens are especially a joke. The LP is essentially an outlet for Republicans to pretend to be "independent" every once in a while.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

The Greens are absurdly good at the grift. You had Jill Stein wine and dine with Russian oligarchs and have a few pseudoscience beliefs, including vaccine hesitancy, and people still thought she'd be better for the working class and handling COVID.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yep. Also, they don't do anything serious at the grassroots level. Vote for them at the national level, but no candidates making their way up through the ranks by serving locally first? Get serious - that's supposed to be my viable option as a progressive? A compromised cutout kook like Stein hanging with the likes of Putin and pushing complete nonsense as a supposed option to vote for at the national level and....nothing at the local.

Who do they think they are kidding? It might be a great way to siphon off votes to help the fascist party get into office - like 2016 - but other than making a handful of useful idiots feel that they really Showed The Man (TM) by not backing Democrats, what have they done?

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