coolian2
Blue Crack Supplier
The second I'm no longer up, I'm out.
how so? is it the extreme dislike of clinton? i know the green party has no chance of winning, but at least for this election, i'd rather vote for policies over people. stein isn't the best leader (i guess? since she hasn't held any sort of office i don't know but i'm realistic in knowing a person shouldn't have their first job as ceo, just as a person's first political office role probs shouldn't be president) but i do like her positions better than clinton's. clinton's come to the left on a lot of stuff, especially since sanders has dropped out, but i wonder 1. if it's all for show and she'll revert back to her centrist self if/when she's elected, 2. what about the other stuff she hasn't changed policy on, like tpp or fracking. i won't get into any of the conspiracy theorist shit since it's all unproven, or the emails, though i will say simply the fact that the whole thing was dismissed when more emails are coming out is troubling.Your stance surprises me, Khan, and it's a shame trying to discuss it in FYM would be a shitshow. Clinton would probably be a moderate Lib in Australia or a Nat in New Zealand, but given that the alternative is just about an existential threat, it seems to me that any responsible left-wing voter will suck it up at the top of the ticket and make their ideological statement by choosing green/socialist/whatever candidates down the ticket in congressional/judicial/dogcatcher races. That of course leads to my big problem with the US Greens, that they don't seem to put all that much energy into these other races. It makes it hard to take them seriously as a viable and worthwhile alternative.
Baby number 2 arrives in March!
nothing since Sept 22?!
rip superthread
nothing since Sept 22?!
rip superthread
i know the green party has no chance of winning, but at least for this election, i'd rather vote for policies over people.
astein did an ama on reddit and was asked that very question, and basically said what i figured she would: the reason more greens don't run for local and state stuff is so they can focus their energies on the presidential ticket or whatever. or something like that. i think it should be the other way around, start small. get city mayors who are green — i'm sure in the bigger more liberal cities it would be easier, of course, although it might be surprising because there's cities out in the midwest that have started relying on renewable energy and stuff. the word green isn't a dirty word anymore to some people. basically, the cities and states with lots of solar and wind energy as well as good recycling programmes would probably have the best luck electing green politicians (of course there's more to the green party than this, but this is what everyone thinks of first and it's also in the party's name). i wish coalitions were possible but our country's voting system sucks ass.
Shit I totally forgot to reply to Khan's post or to do my part for keeping things alive. Navigating this place by the New Posts feature alone has come back to bite me.
But I do like Ashley's suggestion of Gnaw Bone for the next location. Should get there a few weeks before the next U2 album drops.
Guys. Guys. The cubs won a NLCS game for the first time in 13 years.
And they won the first game of the NLCS for the first time since 1984.
I'm so fucking hyped right now.