How the smear campaign targeting the Green Party and Muslim voters failed (www.middleeasteye.net)

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10 May 2026

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The ruling parties love to smear the Greens on this side of the pond too, unfortunately. This fact inspires a chuckle any time I hear a Democrat or Republican talking about 'democracy'. They're like American Christians talking about how much they care about religious freedom.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

The ruling parties love to smear the Greens on this side of the pond too, unfortunately

The Greens on the USA side of the pond do a great job of smearing themselves.

Here's the US Green Party 2024 Presidential candidate Jill Stein having dinner with Vladimir Putin, members of Putin's senior staff, and self admitted registered foreign agent for the Turkish government, Michael Flynn.

[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

The critical issue with the US greens is their pathetic efforts in local organizing and their overvaluing of the presidency. Instead of trying to build power from the ground up like the DSA, they throw most of their efforts behind doomed campaigns that do nothing for anyone. Besides, the only way a party can win the presidency is by replacing another in the duopoly.

[-] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

No the entire point of the green party in the US is to siphon left leaning voters from the Democrats.

When you realize this, the green party in the states makes complete sense.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yup, unless our electoral systems change it’s mathematically impossible for a 3rd party to do anything but spoil.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 weeks ago

she did not have dinner with putin. this is misinformation

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

she did not have dinner with putin. this is misinformation

You're looking at the picture. Both Stein and Putin are sitting at the same table. There is food in front of both. Are you claiming the photo is fake? Or are you playing word games where the meal was something like "lunch" instead of "dinner"?

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 weeks ago

he didn't eat with them at all. he sat down for a few moments, said nothing to stein, nor she to him, and he got up.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That explanation isn't helping her cause or that of the Greens. She actively went to a celebration of the Russian state propaganda machine, that is mistake #1. Then, according to you, she made a choice to continue to sit silently a table with Putin. She could have either kept quiet, stood up and removed herself, or she could have exercised some statesmenship and when presented with the President of Russia, challenge him on his policies of invasion of the sovereign country of Ukraine killing its citizens and kidnapping its children in the Donbas.

Instead, according to you, she sat silent.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 2 weeks ago

are you brave enough to berate the president of a despotic oligarchy to his face on his soil? knowing your own countries media won't even give you a 2 minute spot?

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

First, I'm not stupid enough to go to Russia to celebrate their propaganda apparatus like she did. Second, I notice you selectively ignored the other option of her just standing up and walking away.

You're working very hard to craft some kind of narrative trying to convince us she has repeated poor decision making (a bad quality for a President). Are you trying to do that because the other, more likely scenario, is the reality she's willing tool for Russia?

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 weeks ago

Can you explain?

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 weeks ago

she went to a dinner hosted by one of the few networks that didn't try to ice her out of politics, and while she was there, putin sat at the table for a few moments.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 weeks ago

Can I ask what the event in question was? I’ve legitimately not heard of this before, but I’d not heard of Putin attending any sort of event in the US before, at least not in any recent history.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 weeks ago

iirc it was an anniversary of rt (50th maybe?). and it was in Russia.

[-] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

"We can deny votes to Kamala Harris."

The American Greens are MAGA supporters. Get your head out of your ass.

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