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Old 08-06-2016, 08:12 PM
 
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So you claim.
How diverse do you believe it is? 50% visible minorities? Better than that?

The party has a visible minority quota, from what I've read online. Wonder how easily they're meeting it?

Anyway, the Green Party in the U.S. has far bigger challenges than ethnicity. It isn't like they have any realistic chance of getting even a single candidate elected. Just getting a small number of people to throw away their votes.
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Old 08-06-2016, 08:15 PM
 
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Tell that to those that lost loved ones in the various terrorist attacks we've seen that easily could have been prevented with airing on the side of security to protect those attending or near the event.
There is no way to secure the world. You can't rope off an entire city (Boston Marathon Bombing). There isn't enough people in the world to provide security for every single club. In Europe it's not uncommon for a bomb to go off in the streets.

Does everyone get forced to call a security experts before driving anywhere?

No, no thanks. I'll accept the incredibly small risk.
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Old 08-06-2016, 08:18 PM
 
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How diverse do you believe it is? 50% visible minorities? Better than that?
I already told you that I do not look at things that way. Black, white, brown, yellow they are all the same. Welcome all and all who are interested can come.

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The party has a visible minority quota, from what I've read online. Wonder how easily they're meeting it?
Unfortunately the party has minimal members period right now.

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Anyway, the Green Party in the U.S. has far bigger challenges than ethnicity. It isn't like they have any realistic chance of getting even a single candidate elected. Just getting a small number of people to throw away their votes.
There we go. It finally comes out. They are a bunch of racist because they won't vote for Hillary, eh?

That didn't take long.
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Old 08-06-2016, 08:33 PM
 
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I already told you that I do not look at things that way. Black, white, brown, yellow they are all the same. Welcome all and all who are interested can come.



Unfortunately the party has minimal members period right now.



There we go. It finally comes out. They are a bunch of racist because they won't vote for Hillary, eh?

That didn't take long.
If this is what is typical among Stein supporters, it's no wonder they can't meet their visible minority membership quotas. The accusations of racism fly around fast and furious. Paranoia. True bunker mentality. That kind of an attitude never draws a popular following, it just shouts "fringe". There's no reaching a mainstream level of support that way.
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Old 08-06-2016, 08:36 PM
 
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I have a lot of respect for people who vote their conscious, but Stein is pretty nutty.
Find me a candidate polling above 1.0% that can't be described as nutty.
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Old 08-06-2016, 08:39 PM
 
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Find me a candidate polling above 1.0% that can't be described as nutty.
The mainstreaming of conspiracy theories, and the type of "issues" that normally get discussed on Alex Jones and Art Bell, that's all a newer trend that gets more blatant all the time. Practically day by day, now.

Trump gave new legitimacy to the birthers, the 9/11 truthers, the anti-vaxxers, etc. Breitbart is like News of the World now. I'm thinking that Batboy will make a comeback and he'll be endorsing candidates soon.

There's no space for moderate discussion of politics or national or world affairs. It's being pushed out of the way by talk about conspiracies.
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Old 08-06-2016, 09:02 PM
 
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If this is what is typical among Stein supporters, it's no wonder they can't meet their visible minority membership quotas. The accusations of racism fly around fast and furious. Paranoia. True bunker mentality. That kind of an attitude never draws a popular following, it just shouts "fringe". There's no reaching a mainstream level of support that way.
And yet here it is for all to see.
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Old 08-06-2016, 09:09 PM
 
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The mainstreaming of conspiracy theories, and the type of "issues" that normally get discussed on Alex Jones and Art Bell, that's all a newer trend that gets more blatant all the time. Practically day by day, now.

Trump gave new legitimacy to the birthers, the 9/11 truthers, the anti-vaxxers, etc. Breitbart is like News of the World now. I'm thinking that Batboy will make a comeback and he'll be endorsing candidates soon.

There's no space for moderate discussion of politics or national or world affairs. It's being pushed out of the way by talk about conspiracies.
You notice that too? I always hear these like with amateur radio SHTF conspiracies and how government is going after hamm operators. I don't think Trump gave life to a lot of this, just a face.
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Old 08-06-2016, 09:16 PM
 
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And yet here it is for all to see.
You don't even know what race or ethnicity I am, or the races of my immediate family members, or of my extended family either, and yet you assume I'm a racist "white" person? Who is racist here, in fact? I can guarantee the situation's a lot more complex than you're assuming.
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Old 08-06-2016, 09:17 PM
 
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You don't even know what race or ethnicity I am, or the races of my immediate family members, or of my extended family either, and yet you assume I'm a racist "white" person? Who is racist here, in fact? I can guarantee the situation's a lot more complex than you're assuming.
I never said you were a racist.
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