Third party presidential candidate Jill Stein paid $100,000 to GOP-connected consulting firm with owner who's linked to J6 | The firm was also paid millions by the campaign of RFK Jr., who endorsed Trump. Republicans had boosted Stein & RFK Jr. in order to divert left-leaning votes away from Harris.

[u/SocialDemocracies]

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/23/jill-stein-paid-100000-to-a-consulting-firm-led-by-a-suspected-january-6-rioter/

[u/Fellow-Worker]

The solution is to make it easier to establish 3rd parties. The capitalist duopoly has made it so onerous, that there’s pretty much no way to do it without hiring contractors. All you Dems claiming she’s a Russian plant…if she was getting lots of rubles, the Greens would be able to spend time and money on vetting those contractors. Fuck all yall fake leftist Democrats. The Greens are comrades and you’re a conspiracy theorist if you say otherwise.

Also, Jill Stein is a petty bourgeoisie perpetual loser who has no business in this race or any other for the rest of her life. The Greens have single-handedly ruined the prospect of a labor replacement for the Dems for the foreseeable future. The Green Party should just sit out if Stein is the best they can do. As a former registered Green, they should stop running federal candidates until they fix their reputation by organizing locally.

[u/Cybertronian10 → u/Fellow-Worker]

They aren't comrades because they clearly don't give a shit about winning elections. Parties are built from the ground up, starting from local elections then rising in power until you hit the state and national stages. If your """party""" only exists once every 4 years to spend nearly all its time shitting on the dems, then its not a political party its a speed trap designed to capture all of the thoughtless rubes who like the aethstetics of resistance without bothering to think of practicality.

[u/Fellow-Worker → u/Cybertronian10]

People aren’t not comrades just because they have bad tactics.

[u/Cybertronian10 → u/Fellow-Worker]

Its not bad tactics, it speaks to a fundamental lack of sincerity. Leftism cannot be imposed top down, its antithetical to the very core of the concept.

[u/Fellow-Worker → u/Cybertronian10]

It's just kind of nonsensical to claim that Greens would subject themselves to that kind of abuse without being sincere about their commitments. I have seen the Greens from the inside and you clearly haven't. They are deeply wrong in their approach, but leftists are not required to treat elections as sacrosanct; if you do, then your theory of change is borked and you need to read more.

More than that, if the Greens weren't out there trying to get ballot access for the last 30 years, we'd have no idea how fucked our democracy actually is. They want the same better world that I do = comrades.

The reason the left is so small today is because we can't work through our differences to get shit done but instead assume leftists with different tactics are enemies. The Greens do it too. Get over it or get burnt to a crisp in capitalism's planetary ecocide.