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They're clogging exhaust pipes with foam: Russian sabotage in Germany to discredit the Greens? (en.vijesti.me)

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 9 hours ago

What I said was:

"the person you’re talking to was talking up the Greens in the US" - Third link, "it might be nice if we had real proportional representation - party ballots and larger congressional delegations - such that voting for a Green or Libertarian or Reform party ballot means you might actually be sending someone who shares your views to the assembly". There was none of this concern trolling about "The Green Party has been doing far too good a job of sabotaging itself ... Lay voters are not going to be inspired to vote for your bloc on the grounds that Russia is being very mean and unfair to you."
"saying that it makes perfect sense for people to support them instead of Democrats" - Same citation as previous point
"saying we needed to reform things to try to get them in power" - Third link. That was the point about proportional representation. There was none of this "too good a job of sabotaging itself". It was just well-intentioned attempts at reform to help them to get into office, instead of kicking them when they're down for failing to get into office. And then, in the Europe, it's reversed, where the Greens are the ones who get kicked if they're doing a bad "job" getting into office, instead of that meaning they need help because they'll do good things if they get in.
"They also contrasted Trump’s environmental policies favorably to Biden’s" - Second link. Yes, they described Trump's plan as "degrowth," and raised specific misleading criticisms about Biden's IRA, which had had plenty of time to come into effect and start dropping emissions by the time they wrote that. Now that we have Trump's actual policy changes to compare that claim to, claiming he'll do degrowth looks even more fucking ridiculous than it did before, as long as you're not trying to give him credit for Covid degrowth. Do you want citations? I can probably give you ten for absolutely tectonic climate fuck-ups he's been trying to make happen in the last month. He's already been firing crucial climate scientists. No one at Exxon is getting degrowthed.
"who they said was causing all kinds of environmental problems" - Second link. They blamed Biden for the fact that extraction is still rising as it always is, which I guess is fair if incomplete, and then turned around and airily dismissed the IRA as nothing of consequence. The IRA was the single biggest action any American president has ever taken on the climate, by almost a factor of 10, and it's already reduced emissions. Of course, now that Trump is running around cancelling pieces of it left and right, its future impact is heavily in doubt. Thanks.

I think that's every piece of my statement, and where it is supported in the links I gave. Your summaries are also wrong in places, I think, but mainly I want to focus on where every piece of what I said is backed up somewhere in the citations I gave, instead of getting into an extended tit-for-tat.