Jill Stein schooled on House of Representatives in brutal "Breakfast Club" interview
www.salon.com
Asked how many members of the House of Reps there were, Stein guessed 600
  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
    1162·
    2 months ago

    “It is amazing to hear you talk about women of color as parroting talking points instead of us looking at basic math,” Rye said. “The one thing AOC has done that you haven’t is win some elections.”

    Solid point. Also, the fact that a candidate for the Presidency doesn’t even know how many members there are in the House of Representatives shows just how little attention she pays to the basic mechanics of our government.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      49·
      2 months ago

      As much as I’d love to have a legitimate third party to disappoint me, they’re not going to get anywhere if they can’t win outside of random local elections.

      Show me a Green House rep, Senator, or Governor and then we’ll talk about how you’ll inevitably let me down after I vote for you. Until then I’m going to vote for the disappointments who can actually win office.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        they’re not going to get anywhere if they can’t win outside of random local elections.

        This point seems to be beyond the comprehension of some people (those who aren’t bad faith trolls, anyway). I’ve had so many conversations with people, both online and in person, where they don’t understand that a third party with no offices or political infrastructure cannot win and is just a spoiler party (and in the case of the green party, an obvious joke spoiler party).

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
      48·
      2 months ago

      A speed bump normally doesn’t concern itself with the rules of the road; just has to disrupt the flow of traffic in the intended way.

  • Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.winEnglish
    1086·
    2 months ago

    Putin’s Jizz Stein wants Nato disbanded, the US to give up their SC veto, and revoke weapons to help Ukraine defend itself while simultaneously forcing ‘peace’ (subjugation) negotiations with russia.

    For those that don’t understand how the Electoral College + FPTP voting works, voting for her means helping donald become president due to the spoiler effect.

    2015 Stein breaking bread with Putin, his senior staff, and Mike Flynn (later Trump’s national security advisor

  • scarabine@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    245·
    2 months ago

    I am beginning to wonder if the person who keeps spamming this board with vapid third party posts and then refusing to ever engage in genuine non-adversarial discussion about them is deliberately trying to sour everyone here on third parties.

    Like, a few months ago no one cared. Now though, EVERYONE is well armed with facts and opinionated as hell.

    It’s probably the Streisand effect though! And it’s great to see.

    • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
      191·
      2 months ago

      I’m more inclined to think it’s just a dedicated conservative troll that didn’t really think things through. Everything about it is just too reactionary and knee-jerk.

      I think the kids call it sea lioning? Where you use a facade of civility to break down a community with subtly divisive trolling.

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
        8·
        2 months ago

        I would call it a mix of sealioning and concern trolling. Also be mindful of direct accusations as this person also enjoys reporting people for the slightest perceived rules infractions.

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
      163·
      2 months ago

      I couldn’t possibly make myself complicit in the acts of the bothsides duopoly. That’s why I will instead vote how the furthest right party wants people to. Additionally, I am on here all day every day campaigning for others to do the same, and that doesn’t make me complicit in any acts because reasons.

  • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
    104·
    2 months ago

    I find Stein a bit grating, but I always finds greens hard to pin down politically. I’d much rather this air time have gone to someone like Claudia de la Cruz with something interesting to say and some principles to back it up

  • SirDerpy@lemmy.world
    822·
    2 months ago

    Stein sucks. She’s there because she pays Executive Committee bills. No one votes Green for candidate as that candidate can’t win. They hope 5% vote Green, which would put their platform on every ballot in 2028, which would attract a quality candidate to represent it. There was an influx of new persons during COVID. Now, the masses must be inoculated with propaganda such that it cannot happen again when the DNC compromises everything they’ve promised us to suit corporate donors, once again.

      • SirDerpy@lemmy.world
        526·
        2 months ago

        Of course not. The Democrats rely on the military industrial complex to pay the bills, just as the Republicans do. Neither is so stupid as to shit where they eat. Only Trump is that dumb.

        • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          2 months ago

          The revenues of all the military companies in the US are a small fraction of Apple’s, much less the rest of the tech sector.

          Gotta keep up with the times there gramps, or next you’ll be forgetting things like we’re a net energy exporter now.

          • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@lemmy.today
            1·
            2 months ago

            What do you count as military companies? Just things like Raytheon and Blackwater? Or do you include companies like Amazon and Kraft? If you’re excluding companies like Google and MS from the MIC, you’re greatly underestimating it…

            • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              2 months ago

              Fair question. Yes I was considering arms suppliers specifically. I’m not sure we can simply include every company that works with the military in any way though, it makes more sense to consider companies that get the majority of their profits from the military-affiliated work.

              I would not count Kraft as part of the MIC for instance.

          • SirDerpy@lemmy.world
            29·
            2 months ago

            Revenue is quite an oversimplification of geopolitics in a heavily interdependent economic paradigm, kiddo.

            • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
              61·
              2 months ago

              Regardless, thinking the MIC is what pays the bills is just, frankly, wrong. Very outdated.

              • SirDerpy@lemmy.world
                18·
                2 months ago

                You’ve invalidated my reasoning. Luckily, I can keep repeating my ageism.

                Good luck with that, kiddo.

                • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  51·
                  2 months ago

                  No, you have not invalidated my reasoning I’m afraid, all you did was point out that revenues are not the whole picture. While true, this does not equate to the MIC being what suddenly pays the bills. To do so, it would have to either directly or indirectly contribute to the coffers the majority of the money spent. It does not, not even close.

                  You can blather about geopolitics all you want, but at the end of the day a budget is a budget, and most of the money comes from a very wide variety of domestic sources that the military has no relation to. The health care industry, for instance, does extensive lobbying to the parties. No military relation, and that’s just one example.

                  Your ideas are out of date. By a couple decades. Which is extremely common on here, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if you started discussing petro-dollars and an unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Middle East next, like so many of the other people on here.