Jill Stein Is Killing the Green Party

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Jill Stein Is Killing the Green Party
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If you guys

I'm not one of "those guys" advocating specific 3rd party candidates. Sadly, none of the current choices are viable.

I'm just pointing out your overreaction, which is just as much of a distraction from the REAL issues you pretend to care about.

actually cared to solve the issues

Yeah, because mentioning 3rd parties means that you don't care about anything else at all. What a galaxy brained take 🙄

campaigning to to first and foremost get electoral reform to make third parties even remotely viable instead of trying to work within this extremely broken, barely democratic system.

That's exactly what I'm doing, depending on how wide your definition of "campaigning" is. Just because I correct your hysteria doesn't mean that you have to create a strawman of me that totes loves Jill Stein or whatever 🙄

You'd also be doing work at a local politics where real change can be made

In my case, "local" is part of Denmark, a country with a much better election system. Doesn't mean that I can't have knowledge and opinions about US politics and the kinds of absolutist "us or them" language that bears some of the responsibility for the duopoly surviving in spite of what the vast majority of the population wants.

Also, just FYI: assuming that everyone is able to be active in local politics beyond online discussions reeks of privilege and ableism.

rather than just throwing a candidate out for president every election

Again lumping me in with a group to which I don't belong.

You won't do that though because you're all a bunch of weird idealists with fantastical views of how politics work

Aaand again. Are you going for some kind of record in strawmen and jumping to conclusions? Because if so, you're doing an excellent job so far.

I'm interested in following news thats grounded in reality

Me too. I'm also interested in discussing the news using language grounded in reality, rather than weird hyperbole making a small minority out to be a dominant force and tormentor ruining everything.

As much as I’m tempted, I’m not interested in getting to a debate with you about this. For someone mad about me ‘jumping to conclusions’ you sure made a whole lot of assumptions about me that aren’t really true.

Whether my rant was directed at you, or one of the handful of other Jill Stein nutjobs on here doesn’t really matter, I’ve said my piece.

Have a great day.

They’re not even American, yet telling us how we should vote. That’s about as bad faith as it gets.

For someone mad about me ‘jumping to conclusions’ you sure made a whole lot of assumptions about me that aren’t really true.

Which ones specifically? I did you the courtesy of being specific about how and where you were wrong about me. If you're gonna go "no you!", it would behoove you to do the same rather than being as vague as a teenager posting on Facebook on a bad day.

Whether my rant was directed at you, or one of the handful of other Jill Stein nutjobs

I specifically informed you that I don't consider any of the third party candidates viable and have not said anything to the contrary to indicate that I support Stein in any way. I don't, for the record.

I’m not interested in getting to a debate with you about this.

Because you don't have any counterarguments. You just lie, misrepresent, and demand that everyone believes you. Which seems to be working in this case since it's taking place in a pro-DNC echo chamber almost half as tribalist as the fascist ones.

I’ve said my piece.

Now I have too. Have the day you deserve.

This has to be some kind of chatgpt essay blend. How are you able to write so much based on so little? All your comments are like walls of text responses to like one liners. I just don't get it. How? How do y'all have so much time on your hands???

Just because someone replies with something you don’t like or agree with doesn’t mean they’re chatgpt, friend. Some of us are just educated, can read and write well, and have our own thoughts to share. 🙂

I like to be thorough and exact when refuting misinformation. The point by point format helps me organize my thoughts better and also makes it more clear to the reader what exactly I'm talking about.

That you see this and think LLM says more about your own sloppiness than it does about my format choices and tendency towards verbosity.

When I have something important to say, I choose my words and format differently than for jokes or casual conversation.

If I don't, I end up having to take much LONGER over several comments to clarify when someone inevitably misunderstands due to my being too vague.

I remember a convo we had a while back. I don't mean to psychoanalyze but I recall all your responses being filled with very loaded language kinda how you're doing here.

It's obvious the person you are responding to in this thread is not particularly keen on the convo but you come at them very charged. I don't know, maybe don't take it so personal. I get that they lumped you in with a group you probably don't identify with but it's not worth the battle. Just my 2 € thoughts. All this online debate only leads to misery.

Yeah, you're probably right about that. Getting personally offended and worked up by whatever imprecise to false statements I read, including ones with no malice intended, IS a thing I'm trying to do less.

I grew up with undiagnosed ADHD, so not being understood or people not making an effort to understand and make themselves understood is a major trigger for me because it used to happen so much to me and I've had to work so hard to get better at it.

That's mostly a ME issue that I need to be better at taking down several notches, though. Thanks for pointing it out in a good way rather than wielding it like a cudgel that I would then overreact to as well 😄❤️

Hey. Interesting. Did you ever do an evaluation for ADHD? I'm 38 and I started the process last week. I'm still waiting for the final interview. I don't know what will come of in but it will be nice to have some clarity.

Yeah, got the diagnosis at age 20. It was a huge relief and help to be able to better understand myself, and better explain to others why some things are more difficult to me than most people for no obvious reason 🙂

My best friend got the diagnosis at your age 3 years ago and it's helped him a lot too! I hope it will for you as well, whether yours turns out tp be ADHD too or something else 🙂

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Being not from America, you have NO PLACE telling people how they should vote. And no one has the obligation to take nothing you say seriously at all.

Never told anyone how to vote, so you can pack that strawman away.

We have a saying over here: when America sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

We live in an interconnected world where what the world's foremost superpower does profoundly effects literally billions of people.

There's nothing weird about a European being interested in and knowledgeable about American politics.

Dismissing my input based on geography alone ON THE INTERNET makes it a good thing that no one has the obligation to take anything a fool like you says seriously at all either.

Riiiiiight. You do know your comment history is public, right? Because aside from the metric fuckton of misinformation that is removed when you post, you CLEARLY have an anti-democrat and pro socialist agenda to push on an election that you have nothing to do with.

Go sit down. When Denmark becomes relevant to our election, we’ll call you.

You do know your comment history is public, right?

Yep and I stand by it.

Because aside from the metric fuckton of misinformation that is removed when you post

What's that even supposed to mean? Could you try reformatting it into a syntax readable by humans?

you CLEARLY have an agenda to push on an election that you have nothing to do with.

Nope. Just correcting objectively inaccurate statements where applicable and expressing my opinion in other cases. What agenda are you imagining me to be pursuing?

Go sit down

You first. Must be exhausting to be so pompous with so little understanding to lean on, so you must need a rest more than I do.

When Denmark becomes relevant to our election, we’ll call you.

If you're the one doing the honors, I won't pick up.

Don’t care bud. It’s our election. Your opinion is irrelevant to me. Didn’t read any of that.

But you still cared enough to feel that you had to tell me?

If you think that your opinion of our election should be relevant to us- then you must advocate for the fact that my opinion of your opinion is also relevant.

Or you can stop posting about it.

And nice little meme there bud, but 2007 called and even they think that shit is cringy.

Do you know what an ad hominem fallacy is? I bet you think you do, but since you keep committing them, I'm going to remind you:

An ad hominem fallacy is when you completely ignore the argument in favor of illogically focusing on the person making the argument or an irrelevant aspect of that person. It's frowned upon by people who like to argue logically and it's uncivil to boot.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming!

If you think that your opinion of our election should be relevant to us- then you must advocate for the fact that my opinion of your opinion is also relevant.

Nope. Whether I'm from Denmark, Denver, or Djibouti has no bearing on the soundness of my arguments.

Your irrelevant feelings about the fact that I can read and form opinions about conditions without showing up in person doesn't even qualify as an opinion.

It's just a knee jerk xenophobic reaction or an excuse to keep yammering at me without saying anything.

Or you can stop posting about it.

Nope. You're not the boss of me. You don't decide what I can or cannot do.

2007 called and even they think that shit is cringy.

Late 90s called, they want their "x called, they want their y back" format back. Careful you don't drown in your own hypocrisy.

I thought I dismissed you. Your opinion is irrelevant to me. If the topic comes to the 2025 election in Denmark, you’re welcome to summarily dismiss me when I start telling people who they should support- or if I spread misinformation about it.

Yeah, your mod logs show how much misinformation and propaganda you spread here.

I thought I dismissed you

Still laboring under delusions of grandeur, I see. You're still not the boss of me.

Your opinion is irrelevant to me

Which only makes it all the more weird that you keep reiterating it like a mantra 😄

If the topic comes to the 2025 election in Denmark, you’re welcome to summarily dismiss me when I start telling people who they should support

Again, never told anyone who to support. Speaking of, what's that agenda I "clearly" have? If it's so clear, it should be easy for you to say what you think I'm trying to achieve.

Yeah, your mod logs show how much misinformation and propaganda you spread here.

Which is none. I'm aware that twice a biased mod has called a comment of mine misinformation in their mod log note, but in both cases the mod was upset about me saying something objectively true that they didn't like.

Such as the fact that insisting on knowingly supplying weapons with which to commit genocide in spite of the people you're supposed to represent urging you to stop makes you an accomplice to genocide.

So what misinformation do you think I've been spreading? Tell me one objectively false thing from my mod log or my other post and comment history. Go ahead.

Right… lol. How did I not predict that you would respond accusing mid bias.

Look, I get that cognitive dissonance is a bitch for a lot of people, but trust me when I say this. The dinner you lead to co trol it, the better everyone will be.

I’m ending this now. I’ve given you enough rope and you performed as well as predicted.

Right… lol. How did I not predict that you would respond accusing mid bias

Probably because you didn't check before automatically assuming that the mods were right as if having authority makes them infallible?

Look, I get that cognitive dissonance is a bitch for a lot of people, but trust me when I say this. The sooner you learn to control it, the better everyone will be.

This you?

I’m ending this now

Somehow I doubt it 🙄

I’ve given you enough rope and you performed as well as predicted.

Yup, that picture is DEFINITELY you.

May your day be as pleasant as you've been throughout this conversation.

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