The establishment want you to believe the problem with Farage is he didn’t declare his £5m gift correctly; the Greens say the issue is big money in politics.

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    17 days ago

    Quebec has a 26 pound donation cap in their provincial elections.

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    Our wise jurists decided money was equivalent in all respects to speech. So billions are involved in launching pre-corrupted people into power.

    Turns out our jurists are sometimes complete fucking assholes.

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      I disagree. While they are not socialists like Corbyn’s labour was, they do seem to focus on working class.

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        I will predict the future for you if they win: will stay partners with israel, will stay agressive against russia, will stay cruel to the poor.

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          Oh yeah, we definitely want to be buddies with Russia. Fuck off with that. Won’t address that any further.

          Moving past that: lots of things you could say about the Greens, but they’ve been vocal about their ideals and are seemingly committed. That includes being pro-Palestine and trying to help the working class and other minorities. Now that might change in the realities of governance, but writing them off as equivalent to Labour is pessimistic to an unwarranted degree.

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            So international relations now have two status: “provoking for war” or “buddies”. You have to tell that to diplomats all around the world, they been doing their job wrong from the start.

            The people who own labour also own greens. Greens are just a backup plan, they will talk more the way people like to hear and all, but they will do the same things in the end. This is not pessimism, thats just how things are

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              Well no other party is even talking about this so I guess they are even worse. Even Your Party didn’t go as far as calling to label IDF a terrorist organization.

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              Talking is cheap. providing facts, evidence or any sort of support for one’s claims are a bit less cheap though.

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      What? I’ve heard plenty of criticisms over the Greens but I’ve never heard this one before