Comments by "Harry Stoddard" (@HarryS77) on "Wimbledon Issues Ban On Chanting "Jeremy Corbyn"!" video.

  1. No More War - USA Wow, fuck that.
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  2. If only we had a party that retained all the good things about the Greens and jettisoned that weird, new age shit. I totally forgot about the wifi thing. How embarrassing. And then there's the 9/11 conspiracy wing of the GP. What's worse, a party that believes corporations and billionaire philanthropists will cure the world or one that believes homeopathy cures cancer? Whatever happens with the Greens or Democrats, or with Labour in the UK, it's important to keep in mind that the goal of every party, no matter how principled they may sound at the start, is to gain power and then to never let it go. If the Greens ever win big in elections, eventually they will become the Democrats of today, though they may provide a few better concessions to the masses along the way. It's important not to downplay the accomplishments a Green government could bring about; also important not to oversell it. Third parties are band aids for cancer.
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  3. Like I said, I'm registered Green.
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  4. No, it's kind of true. Maybe the Greens like Stein do not give outright support, but neither to they give outright denial either. People like 9/11 truthers, anti-vaxxers, homeopaths, and others receive at the least a nod of "more needs to be known," meaning, we don't want to say you're wrong, but we don't want to say you're right. Another example. The Green party, its leadership and some of its constituents, have this bizarre opposition to GMOs as scary frankenfood. Don't get me wrong, there's a legitimate critique of GMOs as exploited by corporations (terminator genes, suing farmers whose crop gets infested with GMO crops; the control and patenting of something as universally precious as food staples; the effects of pesticides, notably glyphosate on the environment, bee populations, etc.), but just blanketly declaring all genetic modifications abominations against nature is wildly illiterate and potentially dangerous. About Wifi's effects on kids, Stein has said: "We should not be subjecting kids’ brains especially to that. And, you know, we don’t follow that issue in this country, but in Europe where they do, they have good precautions around wireless, maybe not good enough, because it’s very hard to study this stuff. We make guinea pigs out of whole populations and then we discover how many die. And this is like the paradigm for how public health works in this country and it’s outrageous, you know." It's the old trick of sowing doubt ("it's very hard to study this stuff") and fear ("and then we discover how many die") to pander to what really must be a minuscule portion of the country. It's such an effective trick because stuff like that HAS happened before, thalidomide, asbestos, etc. Full disclosure, I'm technically a member of the Green party and I voted for Stein twice. I like most of their agenda (much more than that of the infuriating corporate sellouts and war-mongers) but some aspects of their positions and culture are frankly embarrassing.
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