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Ryuu96 on 25 March 2024
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Mnementh said:
Shtinamin_ said:

May I ask that you provide a post with Cornel West's Political Platform like we see for the 1st post on page 1. I would much appreciate that. Thx :)

I will update the post as well, given that Biden added a couple of things during The State of the Union, and Trump has Agenda 47 and Project 2025 (still gotta read those too).
I'll have to also make a post with RFK Jr. and Jill Stein (hmmm, maybe I'll just put all 5 of them on a new post).

Details of his platform are here: https://www.cornelwest2024.com/platform

You seem like a smart person Mnementh and I've enjoyed our chats but I'm sorry, this dude is awful.

  • Dismantle the U.S. empire
  • Slash the bloated U.S. military budget 
  • Disband NATO
  • Expeditious and responsible closure of global U.S. military bases - AFRICOM, etc.
  • Cease all war funding and weapons to Ukraine and invest in peacemaking

This basically amounts to "Let Russia slaughter the Ukrainians"

To begin with though, voting 3rd party in America is basically throwing your vote away in the presidential elections. That aside, while Cornel may have some good domestic policies, his foreign policy is atrocious, in fact it would be easy to argue that even Trump has a better foreign policy that Cornel, at least Trump isn't shouting the quiet part out loud! (That he wants to disband NATO, they both do, Trump just isn't as explicit about it).

I wouldn't say voting for Cornel West keeps anyone with a clear conscience, thanks largely due to his horrific foreign policy. He reminds me of Corbyn, I loved him and I wanted him to win the general election but I was vaguely unaware of his awful foreign policy, especially about Ukraine/Russia and once I was aware, it put me off him instantly, to the point that I'm glad he didn't win now and I despise the Tories, Lol.

There's a portion of the far left like Cornel/Corbyn who despise America's imperialism so much that they willingly make excuses for other imperialist countries, they spread their propaganda so easily, they willingly look the other way at atrocities that other countries commit because "America bad" and their entire logic boils down to "America doesn't like this country so this country must be good"

And absolutely none of them have any idea on how to get "peace" in Ukraine, simply saying "I'll bring peace" doesn't mean a damn thing, especially when Putin has shown zero interest in peace. I'm pretty sure these guys don't actually want peace though, they just want Ukraine to go die quietly in a corner where they can't hear it. Unless they believe somehow that letting Russia slaughter millions is peace.

Just because you ignore it, doesn't make it peace.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 25 March 2024