Even if you don't think voting is worth the effort, consider this: Every non-duopoly vote makes a statement to the duopoly that you know how corrupt the system is and that you enjoy watching them sweat. Let's make them sweat so much they turn into a puddle of water on the floor and then we can mop them up and flush them down the toilet. I know I can't wait to see these genocide-enablers flushed down the drain. Let's do it!
Exactly. A lot of people want to fake being conscious and then they go and support the Dems and GOP and their endless wars. But war not only kills people, it kills the PLANET we live on.
The "duopoly" doesn't give a rat's ass about our "statements."
When the shit hits the fan, they will scurry away into their hidey holes like the cockroaches they are and wait until everyone forgets about them at which time they will return.
This shit has been going on for thousands of years. Over and over and over and over and over...
I agree BUT it's been going on for years BUT the same could be said before the French Revolution happened. When people get tired of being humiliated/lied to and find their county is slowly being dismantled/when there is not enough food/no housing and the poor are continuously forced off the streets perhaps the people hopefully realise our country is shit.
While I tend to agree with you, I do think, MAYBE, that if the numbers grow large enough, they will listen. If you don't believe that, what hope is there?
The key is to make sure the roaches are not forgotten over time. Make sure they are taught about and talked about in each new generation. Thats the only way to keep them away. Otherwise, you’re right, roaches never die.
Again, libertarianism is such a childish (id, ego) ideology. Of course we are all associated with the rest of society which means, in our current format, being associated with the state. Libertarians use roads, breath air, and eat like everyone else. Without the state (society working together) none of that would be possible. Interesting that while libertarians talk about the intrusiveness and oppression of the state, I’ve not heard them complain about the same in regard to corporations and oligarchs who are currently, to society’s detriment, controlling the state.
Don't waste your time engaging with him Gregor. I've tried unsuccessfully to understand what on Earth Howard is burbling on about. He does love his acronyms and Random capital letters 😹
Thank you so much for your articles. I would like to post this here if I may: The Palestinian mother murdered along with her 4 day old twins and their grandmother was Dr Jumann Afra. Say her name.
To quote the great Mouin Rabbani, choosing between Trump or Kamala (or any R and D candidate) is like choosing between lung cancer and brain cancer. Vote for your choice of cancer. And then get it. American democracy needs chemo.
What democracy? The 2014 Princeton Study shows that the US is an oligarchy.
Why force yourself to choose between lung or brain cancer? Vote outside the duopoly. Vote jillstein2024.com and make those duopolists of the blue/red variety sweat bullets.
"choosing between Trump or Kamala (or any R and D candidate) is like choosing between lung cancer and brain cancer"... that's a pretty accurate diagnostic doc. Jill Stein would make a pretty good anti-cancer dug... but the odds of her becoming president are about the same as those of a cat swimming across the Pacific.
Building Third Party momentum is key. There are also practical implications. If she gets 5% of the vote she/the Greens will get Federal Matching Funds and much easier ballot access in many states in 2028. It’s the long game but the only way to change this rotten system.
The US likely may not exist in the current form and shape by 2028, but it is worth a try. Stein is good and Cornel West is good too. Whatever it is never vote D or R or RFK Jr. Same garbage.
Jill Stein will be on the Presidential ballot in most states. She is a genuine peace candidate. Let’s break the stranglehold of the war mongering duopoly. Vote Stein in November!
even if Jill Stein wins, which she won't, but if she did, the bureaucracy, the entrenched special interests, the three letter agencies, the MIC, the bought and paid for politicians, which is pretty much all of them, would crush her like a bug. She would upset the trough feeding, the power and wealth that comes if you're in the special club. The fight is between the communist globo homo NWO oligarchs and the other communist globo homo NWO oligarchs. Everyone else is a peasant, destined to be a serf.
I don't think you have a clue about what Communism is.
The examples you mention (each and every one of them) are neoliberal Capitalists of the worst kind. They are billionaires. Being a billionaire and being a communist are contradictory - but then you would know that if you understood what communism is.
Time to hit the books instead of listening to far-right rhetoric (whether coming from Independent or MSM sources).
you'll have nothing and like it is communist. Whatever you call it, the one percent want to kill seventy five percent of the world. Jill Stein is no doubt a good little communist progressive.
I live in France under LIBERAL Socialism. This means we don't chuck people out into the streets. We have healthcare/free schools/homes for the elderly.
I have already adequately covered that. I would add there is no equality of outcome, that's impossible. Some people will be drunks, drug addicts, stupid, lazy, mentally ill and failures, no matter what. Some people will always be better in certain fields and certain professions. There is no possible way that equity, meaning equality of outcome, is anything other than a worthless concept that will only bring the world and civilization down to the lowest common denominator.
That video was awesome. Love that young woman. Love the graphic. It is truly astonishing to me how otherwise intelligent people have all drunk the Harris/Walz Kool-Aid and are gushing over their nonexistent commitment to peace and justice in the Middle East. I feel like I live in an alternate reality. Or perhaps just "reality."
I think it is reality. I understand the need to grasp for some hope when things look so bleak, but Harris has given us really nothing to believe that she will do any better than her predecessor. She seems to be adopting Biden's tough guy approach - it was all words and attitude with Biden and, so too, is it with Harris. So, to applaud her choice of Walz over Shapiro as a signal that she could bring about some change is as delusional as Democrats judge Trump supporters of being.
Yes, the young woman was great, and very brave, not that someone will physically harm her, but simply to stand up and speak what is currently going against the tide. It's a Rosa Parks action.
Caitlin. I can't thank you enough for persistently holding holding a mirror to the world raising awareness that each and everyone can contribute to put an end to madness currently gripping our world. Thank you!
Sorry, wish I could be more eloquent but having listened to the turd mountain 💩 that is the Israeli ambassador (even Gaddafi did a better job addressing the UN way back when..), and reading Caitlin’s article, which sums up everything we know about America’s sick political system, I have nothing meaningful left to say..
If silent it has to be smelly enough to gag. Hiding the perpetrator while gagging the rest is the whole point. Zionist tactics at their finest! Beer and hard boiled eggs for voting day.
There is a peace candidate, also an equal rights-Medicare for all-non corporate-ecologically concerned and climate aware candidate, Dr. Jill Stein and the Green Party of the United States.
The Federal Election Commission denied to fund the earned $130M matching funds and silenced the Green Party as it began to move into national recognition as Biden was obstinately refusing to relinquish a second term Presidential campaign. What the FEC did was theft of election funds, their excuse for non payment was not valid and had never before been used.
Not only is the Republican=Democratic farce an election fraud, but it recoils in fear from any campaign of peace because that threatens the pipeline of blood profits in arms development, arms sales, and consumer market knock-on effect designed by economist Dr. Paul Wolfowitz as “the economic engine of capitalist democracy” - war profiteering by Wolfowitz’ neoconservative economics.
At first I thought you were talking about some Freudian concept - "Freedom of Association." From the discussion, I gather it means the freedom to associate with whomever you wish or no one. How does being a Dem, a Repub, a Socialist prevent that?
"Peace Is Not On The Ballot In November". That got the black humour side of me. It isn't on the ballot for any of the Western countries. They are just a sick bunch of money mongers rushing to extinguish the planet and the people who live on it. Maybe they don't know what they are doing. At least that would be better than if they did know.
"...sowing the seeds of revolution by showing as many people as you can that everything they’ve been trained to believe about their nation, their government and their world is a lie. Showing them how depraved their rulers are and how badly they’re being screwed over by exploitative status quo systems, and letting them know that a better world is possible."
This is what we all need to do. What's holding us back? Get out there and do something, anything!
JFC, Phil Gordon, Kamala's national security advisor tweeted 'she will always ensure Israel is able to defend itself against Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups. She does not support an arms embargo on Israel.' Can her position be ANY more explicit than that? Takei is a fucking idiot.
indeed. in a recent campaign speech she said 'time for a ceasefire and bringing the hostages home is now'. note: no 'permanent' ceasefire (probably til after the elections) and no mention of the palestinian hostages. at the same time i read: 'the us biden-harris administration approves 20 billion in weapons sales (f15, missiles, tank rounds, mortar rounds, tactical vehicles) to israel'.
We can refuse to vote for anyone who supports Israel. I think that means, in the case of the USA, Jill Stein. But all other action is so important: protest, boycott, speak out. It all matters.
Jill Stein for POTUS 2024.
Vote people, planet and peace! jillstein2024.com
Even if you don't think voting is worth the effort, consider this: Every non-duopoly vote makes a statement to the duopoly that you know how corrupt the system is and that you enjoy watching them sweat. Let's make them sweat so much they turn into a puddle of water on the floor and then we can mop them up and flush them down the toilet. I know I can't wait to see these genocide-enablers flushed down the drain. Let's do it!
Exactly. A lot of people want to fake being conscious and then they go and support the Dems and GOP and their endless wars. But war not only kills people, it kills the PLANET we live on.
https://reliefweb.int/report/world/climate-crossfire-how-natos-2-military-spending-targets-contribute-climate-breakdown-enca
https://ceobs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SGRCEOBS-Estimating_Global_MIlitary_GHG_Emissions_Nov22_rev.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/science/war-environmental-impact-ukraine.html
I made 100 of these Jill Stein MD , President 2016 t-shirts in 2016 and gave them away. I never stopped wearing them on my bike commutes and rides.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79f66931-2b40-43ff-b31e-cdf750ce7b7b_4032x2268.jpeg
Jill asked for a small, but she's full of energy, or was 8 years ago.
She's got my vote again
Sigh!
The "duopoly" doesn't give a rat's ass about our "statements."
When the shit hits the fan, they will scurry away into their hidey holes like the cockroaches they are and wait until everyone forgets about them at which time they will return.
This shit has been going on for thousands of years. Over and over and over and over and over...
I agree BUT it's been going on for years BUT the same could be said before the French Revolution happened. When people get tired of being humiliated/lied to and find their county is slowly being dismantled/when there is not enough food/no housing and the poor are continuously forced off the streets perhaps the people hopefully realise our country is shit.
We know the duopoly sucks, so why continue the status quo?
While I tend to agree with you, I do think, MAYBE, that if the numbers grow large enough, they will listen. If you don't believe that, what hope is there?
well, one can show that one doesn't give a rat's ass about them not giving a rat's ass ...
The key is to make sure the roaches are not forgotten over time. Make sure they are taught about and talked about in each new generation. Thats the only way to keep them away. Otherwise, you’re right, roaches never die.
"But she can't win!" say the defeatists and sheep.
"Better to win the booby prize (Trump/Harris),
it is a sure thing!" (snark)
Massie/Greene 2024
Oh my god.
Whatever.
LOU.......whatever............converse in saying "whatever." Are you from California...whatever land!
Again, libertarianism is such a childish (id, ego) ideology. Of course we are all associated with the rest of society which means, in our current format, being associated with the state. Libertarians use roads, breath air, and eat like everyone else. Without the state (society working together) none of that would be possible. Interesting that while libertarians talk about the intrusiveness and oppression of the state, I’ve not heard them complain about the same in regard to corporations and oligarchs who are currently, to society’s detriment, controlling the state.
There is libertarianism and then there is anarchy. Many calling themselves the former are actually preaching the latter.
Stop babbling. The Dems and the GOP are putting people in prison for talking the truth, while you are spewing your clouds of noise.
Don't waste your time engaging with him Gregor. I've tried unsuccessfully to understand what on Earth Howard is burbling on about. He does love his acronyms and Random capital letters 😹
Thank you so much for your articles. I would like to post this here if I may: The Palestinian mother murdered along with her 4 day old twins and their grandmother was Dr Jumann Afra. Say her name.
To quote the great Mouin Rabbani, choosing between Trump or Kamala (or any R and D candidate) is like choosing between lung cancer and brain cancer. Vote for your choice of cancer. And then get it. American democracy needs chemo.
What democracy? The 2014 Princeton Study shows that the US is an oligarchy.
Why force yourself to choose between lung or brain cancer? Vote outside the duopoly. Vote jillstein2024.com and make those duopolists of the blue/red variety sweat bullets.
"choosing between Trump or Kamala (or any R and D candidate) is like choosing between lung cancer and brain cancer"... that's a pretty accurate diagnostic doc. Jill Stein would make a pretty good anti-cancer dug... but the odds of her becoming president are about the same as those of a cat swimming across the Pacific.
Consider voting for Dr. Jill Stein as the first leg of a relay. The first cat won’t cross the finish line. Should the first cat not start?
This talk of swimming cats is very triggering.
I really do not understand what you are saying here Feral.
IF you knew about CATS you would know that in Sri Lanka there are cats that swim if they haven't been decimated!
Since there is no difference whatsoever in the likely outcome, why not vote for that swimming cat?
Will you please stop talking about cats having to swim?
lol
Obviously you didn't get my first comment.
Betting odds change when enough voters value change over odds.
Building Third Party momentum is key. There are also practical implications. If she gets 5% of the vote she/the Greens will get Federal Matching Funds and much easier ballot access in many states in 2028. It’s the long game but the only way to change this rotten system.
The US likely may not exist in the current form and shape by 2028, but it is worth a try. Stein is good and Cornel West is good too. Whatever it is never vote D or R or RFK Jr. Same garbage.
💯🎯
I hate water.
Well Feral you might hate water but when 'push comes to shove' you will be drinking from a puddle.
Feral could do it.
No. And I hate water.
"No. And I hate water.".... Even after 5 days in the middle of the Sahara ? ????????
I agree... which is one of the reasons why candidates I have voted for during my life seldom win...
Jill Stein will be on the Presidential ballot in most states. She is a genuine peace candidate. Let’s break the stranglehold of the war mongering duopoly. Vote Stein in November!
even if Jill Stein wins, which she won't, but if she did, the bureaucracy, the entrenched special interests, the three letter agencies, the MIC, the bought and paid for politicians, which is pretty much all of them, would crush her like a bug. She would upset the trough feeding, the power and wealth that comes if you're in the special club. The fight is between the communist globo homo NWO oligarchs and the other communist globo homo NWO oligarchs. Everyone else is a peasant, destined to be a serf.
wilson, What do you mean by "..... the communist globe homo NWO oligarchs .... ?
russian_bot where are you?
gates, soros, schwab, zuckerberg, the tech bros excepting musk are examples.
I don't think you have a clue about what Communism is.
The examples you mention (each and every one of them) are neoliberal Capitalists of the worst kind. They are billionaires. Being a billionaire and being a communist are contradictory - but then you would know that if you understood what communism is.
Time to hit the books instead of listening to far-right rhetoric (whether coming from Independent or MSM sources).
Sure they are all communists while reaping wealth in a Capitalist system. Makes total sense, very clarifying.
It would help if progressives would just lose the damn defeatist attitude. Like I said before, not only we need as an Independent at every level.
Now you can resign yourself to becoming a serf, but don't expect everyone else to do the same.
'which she won't', the rest is obsolete. it's only a count of how many are aware about the rest. also, you know they're not communist.
you'll have nothing and like it is communist. Whatever you call it, the one percent want to kill seventy five percent of the world. Jill Stein is no doubt a good little communist progressive.
You seem to be on the wrong substack mate...
The Green Party is socialist.
No it is not, it seeks a path forward under Capitalism. An impossibility but that is what it seeks.
Is it?
I live in France under LIBERAL Socialism. This means we don't chuck people out into the streets. We have healthcare/free schools/homes for the elderly.
socialism is a necessary step to communism. V.I. Lenin
PLEASE tell me what "Communism" means to you?
I have already adequately covered that. I would add there is no equality of outcome, that's impossible. Some people will be drunks, drug addicts, stupid, lazy, mentally ill and failures, no matter what. Some people will always be better in certain fields and certain professions. There is no possible way that equity, meaning equality of outcome, is anything other than a worthless concept that will only bring the world and civilization down to the lowest common denominator.
Wilson. Why are Americans streaming into Europe right now? I guess you don't know this because you live in a bubble.
What they want is healthcare.
That video was awesome. Love that young woman. Love the graphic. It is truly astonishing to me how otherwise intelligent people have all drunk the Harris/Walz Kool-Aid and are gushing over their nonexistent commitment to peace and justice in the Middle East. I feel like I live in an alternate reality. Or perhaps just "reality."
I think it is reality. I understand the need to grasp for some hope when things look so bleak, but Harris has given us really nothing to believe that she will do any better than her predecessor. She seems to be adopting Biden's tough guy approach - it was all words and attitude with Biden and, so too, is it with Harris. So, to applaud her choice of Walz over Shapiro as a signal that she could bring about some change is as delusional as Democrats judge Trump supporters of being.
Yes, the young woman was great, and very brave, not that someone will physically harm her, but simply to stand up and speak what is currently going against the tide. It's a Rosa Parks action.
Caitlin. I can't thank you enough for persistently holding holding a mirror to the world raising awareness that each and everyone can contribute to put an end to madness currently gripping our world. Thank you!
American vote = fart in the wind 💨
Sorry, wish I could be more eloquent but having listened to the turd mountain 💩 that is the Israeli ambassador (even Gaddafi did a better job addressing the UN way back when..), and reading Caitlin’s article, which sums up everything we know about America’s sick political system, I have nothing meaningful left to say..
If silent it has to be smelly enough to gag. Hiding the perpetrator while gagging the rest is the whole point. Zionist tactics at their finest! Beer and hard boiled eggs for voting day.
😂
😂
There is a peace candidate, also an equal rights-Medicare for all-non corporate-ecologically concerned and climate aware candidate, Dr. Jill Stein and the Green Party of the United States.
The Federal Election Commission denied to fund the earned $130M matching funds and silenced the Green Party as it began to move into national recognition as Biden was obstinately refusing to relinquish a second term Presidential campaign. What the FEC did was theft of election funds, their excuse for non payment was not valid and had never before been used.
Not only is the Republican=Democratic farce an election fraud, but it recoils in fear from any campaign of peace because that threatens the pipeline of blood profits in arms development, arms sales, and consumer market knock-on effect designed by economist Dr. Paul Wolfowitz as “the economic engine of capitalist democracy” - war profiteering by Wolfowitz’ neoconservative economics.
Anyone who thinks they can non-associate with others has not started to grow up.
At first I thought you were talking about some Freudian concept - "Freedom of Association." From the discussion, I gather it means the freedom to associate with whomever you wish or no one. How does being a Dem, a Repub, a Socialist prevent that?
Speak up and out. This must not fade into oblivion.
So right, Caitlin. On all counts. Wake The Fuck Up.
"Peace Is Not On The Ballot In November". That got the black humour side of me. It isn't on the ballot for any of the Western countries. They are just a sick bunch of money mongers rushing to extinguish the planet and the people who live on it. Maybe they don't know what they are doing. At least that would be better than if they did know.
I'm pretty sure they know exactly what they're doing Susan. 🤮
"...sowing the seeds of revolution by showing as many people as you can that everything they’ve been trained to believe about their nation, their government and their world is a lie. Showing them how depraved their rulers are and how badly they’re being screwed over by exploitative status quo systems, and letting them know that a better world is possible."
This is what we all need to do. What's holding us back? Get out there and do something, anything!
Here's how I'm showing as many people as I can this week that their government--and its puppets--are all a lie: https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/scratch-the-surface
Indeed! And yet, peace is on the ballot but Americans don't see it because the focus is only on the red vs. blue choice.
In the recent UK election non-duopoly parties won a plurality of the vote.
Party Pct% Seats
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Non-duopoly…..42.6%…..114
Labour ………..…..33.7%........411
Tory…………........…23.7%......121
And those figures show just how much the system is skewed and why the 2 main parties don't support Proportional Representation.
JFC, Phil Gordon, Kamala's national security advisor tweeted 'she will always ensure Israel is able to defend itself against Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups. She does not support an arms embargo on Israel.' Can her position be ANY more explicit than that? Takei is a fucking idiot.
indeed. in a recent campaign speech she said 'time for a ceasefire and bringing the hostages home is now'. note: no 'permanent' ceasefire (probably til after the elections) and no mention of the palestinian hostages. at the same time i read: 'the us biden-harris administration approves 20 billion in weapons sales (f15, missiles, tank rounds, mortar rounds, tactical vehicles) to israel'.
We can refuse to vote for anyone who supports Israel. I think that means, in the case of the USA, Jill Stein. But all other action is so important: protest, boycott, speak out. It all matters.