CLAYTON — Two activists who participated in a pro-Palestine protest last spring at Washington University now face charges, the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney’s office said Wednesday.
Those charged include Jill Stein, the presidential nominee of the Green Party in 2024, who is accused of hitting a police officer with a bicycle and kicking him at the protest. Stein, 74, was charged Friday with first-degree trespass and fourth-degree assault.
In charging documents, Washington University police said demonstrators were given numerous warnings to leave the university’s private campus. Officers moved in for arrests around 8 p.m. Court documents alleged Stein interlocked her arms with other demonstrators and refused to leave.
In an interview with the Post-Dispatch just days after the protest, Stein disputed accounts that she struck an officer.
“While I was being assaulted with a bicycle, one of the police bent down and picked up my foot in order to try to further destabilize me into falling backwards,” Stein said. “And I wiggled out of his grip, you know, in an effort not to fall back on my head.”
Point is, running third party is sabotaging the platform you claim to support. If you want something more effective, look at what’s happening to Tesla right now.
The Dems platform is the facilitation of genocide of Palestinians. Good on Jill Stein trying to “sabotage” that
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what kinda of logic is that ? if the option is genocide, genocide with bs lip-service and no genocide then no genocide is always the answer. snakes like schumer and pelosi are still in control of dnc because we didn’t loose hard enough. 3rd party getting more than 10 percent of votes would have been best thing for our political system.
dnc has become full of parasites who won’t waste one second putting on the maga hat if it can make them more money. just look at harris, so much farce before election and now partying in hawai with her aipac lobbyists husband.
Did trump run as the Fascist Dictatorship party candidate?
No, he ran as a Republican and turned the Republican party into the Fascist Dictatorship party.
Similarly you have a better chance of taking over the Democratic party and turning it into the Green party than you do of winning as a Green party candidate.
The game is rigged to prevent third party candidates from winning, If you want to actually improve things you either have to play the game with a party that can win an election, like AOC or Bernie, or you have to play a different game altogether, like Luigi.
These fucking idiots make the left look bad. At some point I have to wonder if it’s intentional. How many of these people are genuine (useful idiots), and how many know exactly what they’re doing.
Please go back to reddit. There are plenty of people with these smooth-brained takes there. You’ll feel right at home.
AOC and Bernie haven’t improved anything.
The problem with trying to replicate Trump’s success at taking over a party from the inside is that there’s institutional resistance from the party against moving to the left. Republicans and their donors don’t really oppose being the fascist dictatorship party. Democrats and their donors absolutely oppose being a democratic socialism party.
Electoralism is not a game we can win. The only winning move is not to play.
No, instead you pick the “no genocide” option. Quite telling that you’d pick “less genocide”
Only sensible thing u said so far
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There is no chance Harris would have made the situation in Gaza even slightly better. This genocide is bipartisan.
But under Trump, Israel will become even more isolated. Mexico just recognized Palestine. Would that have happened under Harris?
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Trump is doing the same thing that Harris would do, the genocide is bipartisan.
You hear about these “new” proposals to expell the Palestinians? They were drafted in 2023! The reason Biden didn’t attempt to do it is because no Arab country would accept 2 million refugees, and Trump will face the same obstacles.
Your daily reminder that blueMAGA don’t care about what’s actually happening in Gaza, only the domestic rhetoric their politicians use.
The best option you have if you’re playing by the rules is to pick the least bad option of the parties that can actually win, and then change that into the “no genocide” party.
We shouldn’t be playing by those rules. That’s how we got here in the first place.
Picking the least bad option is how we got the choice between genocide and less genocide in the first place
Direct action is a different strategy from electoral politics. You need both.