Greta Thunberg refuses to endorse either US presidential candidate in damning post
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Multiple celebrities have come out in support of either candidate in the US presidential election throughout the course of the campaign period – from Terminator star and former Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsing Democrat nominee Kamala Harris, to Jake Paul (perhaps unsurprisingly) b...

Thunberg added that “no matter” which one of them wins, America “will still be an imperialist, hyper-capitalist world power that will ultimately continue to lead the world further into a racist, unequal world with an ever increasingly escalating climate and environmental emergency”.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    There’s a lot to say about how American politics matters enough to the state of the world that anyone has a right to an opinion on them, but you could say the same thing about Russia and China and it’d still be weird if American activists publicy endorsed (or refused to endorse) their political candidates.

    … are there even “other” political parties in china? it’s a one party state, and if you’re a citizen and ain’t in it… you got problems.

    • DragonTypeWyvern
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      3 days ago

      Kind of. “Minor parties” are allowed as long as they don’t actually challenge the CCP for control, the CCP gets to approve all of their candidates, and of course all put together they somehow can never quite break the CCP supermajority in the national congress.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_China

      More relevant would be leaders of power blocs in the CCP itself.

      That banned party list is a fun read. Like five of them are actual Maoists/Marxists.