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US election 2024: Greta Thunberg refuses to endorse either candidate in damning post (www.indy100.com)

submitted 1 month ago by TokenBoomer to c/progressivepolitics

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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”.

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[–] FuglyDuck 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.