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Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Taps Historian Butch Ware as Running Mate

www.democracynow.org Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Taps Historian Butch Ware as Running Mate

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein announced historian and professor Butch Ware as her running mate. Jill Stein, who also ran on the Green Party ticket in 2012 and 2016, has made a Gaza ceasefire one of the main pillars of her platform. In a post announcing her VP pick, Stein wrote, “This...

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Hey Jill Stein, why is completely pulling out of NATO part of your otherwise almost 100% sensible progressive platform
JILL STEIN COME BACK
ALSO WHY IS IT #2 ON CORNEL WEST’S WISHLIST, that’s super incongruous in relation to literally everything else about him, do you happen to know anything about that
COME BACK
ANSWER ME
- I like how her solution to Russia/Ukraine is literally "if everyone else just leaves it will sort of solve itself". That's a direct quote.
  
  If there’s one thing that’s connected with success in a management role, it is blind cockeyed optimism combined with ignorance of the issues involved and a preference for simple one-sentence solutions. Literally never seen it go wrong, in government or war or business or anything else.
  
  By "everyone else leave and it will solve itself" she means "Russia will conquer Ukraine and my paymaster Putin will be happy."
  
  As a manager who regularly has to clean up other manger's bullshit because of exactly that... I fucking hate other managers. Especially "project" managers.
  A close second is the bean counters that keep sending me "recommendations" to fuck over our employees to save a buck to become more profitable, despite the fact that our branch (and specifically my accounts) are the most profitable nationally. (yes, even compared to accounts that take that advice...)
- Because Nato should have been dismantled after the Cold War?
  The Warsaw Pact was dismantled. Why wasn't Nato?

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