The one who knocked up a 12 year old when he was 19, and who claims their son (that he raised) is her brother.

Instead of releasing a huge number of these insects into trash sites (which isn’t practical)

Try it anyway!

Google can and do remove offensive reviews.

It’s not just about being Arab. It’s about what she stands for

Jill Stein also did well in Dearborn. She got 18% of the vote. (Jill Stein is not Arab.)

And now you’re accusing independents of being Nazis. Like that’s gonna help.

I mean, I understand. You’re just following the example of your party leaders, like when Hillary accused Tulsi Gabbard of being a Russian agent. Like most people, you look to your political leaders to understand the political landscape, and your party really hasn’t given you any other example.

One of the functions of political parties is to spread political literacy among the population, and the Democrats and the Republicans both feed you nonsense because they’re never going to tell you “the truth is we serve the corporate class, lol”.

It’s not your fault that they’re failing you. But they are failing you. And they’re failing America.

Maybe this attitude is why Democrats lost.

Maybe the Democrats should have reached out to independent voters who were concerned about Gaza instead of accusing them all of being Russian agents.

The URL is http://www.swapyourvote.org

Why is this downvoted? Shouldn’t Democrats love this? This is a win-win for the Democrats and Greens.

John Oliver just described on his latest show how Georgia state rep Ruwa Romman (a Palestinian-American woman in a swing state) arranged a vote swap with someone in a non-swing state, where Romman would vote for Harris in exchange for a vote against Harris. And John Oliver is as Democrat as they come.

And I think one vote for Harris in a swing state in exchange for two votes against Harris elsewhere is more than generous to the Democrats right now considering the circumstances.

“I mean, Elon Musk joked to me, and he has, I think, many times, that he’s going to go to prison if Trump loses,” Carlson said.

LOL. Billionaires don’t go to prison in America.

They aren’t intended to win, they’re intended to do exactly what they’re doing - selecting particular wedge issues to split the Democrat vote and give them a lower total percentage vs Republicans

But surely that would happen even if someone else like Cornel West was the Greens leader.

All Putin achieves by (somehow) installing his plant as the Greens presidential candidate is lowering the Greens’ vote share by preventing them from getting the most charismatic and effective candidate.

If Putin really did subvert the Greens’ selection mechanism and install a less popular candidate with limited appeal, the Democrats should be thanking him.

I’m not Russian.

But these accusations don’t even make sense.

Why would Putin benefit from having a Russian plant as the presidential candidate of the Green Party? Does he mistakenly think the Green Party has some influence in American politics?

And how could he known his plant would be selected by the party as their presidential candidate? Is he psychic? Is the entire Green Party comprised of Russian plants?

If his goal was for the Greens to be a spoiler for the Dems, surely they’d be just as much of a spoiler no matter who their candidate was. In fact, without Stein, they could probably find a better candidate and be more of a spoiler.

I’m not worried about Stein being a Russian plant because it literally would make no difference to anything.

Didn’t you earlier claim to not know anything about Russian culture?

I don’t know much about Russian culture.

I do, however, know a little bit about the Turkic culture of the Tatars.

до свидания!

I’ll assume that means “I love you”.

Thanks! I love you too, man. Despite our differences, we’re all just trying to do what we think is best for the world.

So you’re arguing that as long as an invader/occupier can displace or genocide the entire population that lives in a territory, there should be no barriers to an invading force claiming whatever land they want.

Well, if that’s your argument, then neither Ukraine nor Russia have a claim to Crimea. It should belong to the Crimean Tatars.

the second statement of yours doesn’t work.

So you’re arguing against self-determination for the inhabitants of the Donbas on the grounds that the territory historically belonged to Ukraine. (Which does seem to be the attitude of the Ukrainian government.)

I don’t think that’s a good argument against self-determination. And that’s how you end up with separatist violence.

It was a rhetorical question

It wasn’t rhetorical.

Ah, cool. I’ll check out that app. (I think it must be specific to that app. I’m on desktop right now and I don’t see any option for tagging people.)

I used to use RES Reddit Enhancement Suite back in the day, and it had support for tagging people. I found it quite useful.

(I mean, I get it. We live in a 1984-style dystopia where I can’t question our very questionable government without being accused of being a traitor and secretly loyal to whichever foreign power is considered the enemy this week, and I should consider myself lucky that I don’t end up in Room 101, or Guantanamo Bay, or the Embassy of Ecuador in London. Yeah, I know.)

Well, I specifically said I don’t have any particular sympathy for the Russian government, but whatever.

How are you tagging people? Is there a third-party software for that? I’m not very good at using Lemmy.

I can’t access the link you posted. So I’ll take your word for it. But I can’t see how many votes it has or what their reasoning is.

You might have the poster blocked. You can see it if you open the link in an Incognito window. It has 15 upvotes.

I definitely have you marked as maybe pro-Russia

First of all, even if I was pro-Russia, that doesn’t mean I’m a Russian asset. Assets operate under instructions and get paid for it (I assume).

Secondly, I’m not pro-Russia. I mean, I’d like to think I appreciate Russian culture in the same way I appreciate all world cultures, but I have no particular loyalty or sympathy for the Russian government. (And I don’t even know much about Russian culture. I’ve never read Tolstoy or Pushkin. I don’t think I could name a single Russian dish apart from borscht.)

I think that Ukraine is a puppet of the Western powers, and I think that the US and NATO provoked the war in the Donbas. I don’t think that makes me pro-Russia. If I was pro-Russia, then I would want Russia to win the war, and truth is I don’t care which side wins the war. I just want it to be over. Ideally, I’d like the people of the Donbas to have a referendum about which country they’d like to be a part of, but neither Ukraine or Russia are going to let that happen.

I also think a lot of the information we’re getting about the war in the Ukraine is blatant propaganda. Like, we’re supposed to believe they killed 10,000 Russian troops last week? Then why are they freaking out about 1,500 troops coming from North Korea? (Even if North Korea sent 10,000 troops, that’s still only one week’s worth, right?) Again, I don’t think that makes me pro-Russia. That makes me pro-truth.

I am also pro-BRICS, because I support a multi-polar future for our world. I don’t think that makes me pro-Russia anymore than it makes more pro-Brazil or pro-Ethiopia. (I don’t see BRICS as an anti-Western alliance. Also, Brazil is a Western country.)

I will be upfront about all of this. I am not hiding any of it.