So.. I'm at the Green Party convention. Currently, we're performing a secular prayer about those that have died to a bucket of sunflowers.
Audience is asked to shout out names of the dead to honour. Among names shouted: "Rosa Luxemburg" and "David Bowie"
I'm a member of the party, and I like laughing at it.
Julian Assange is going to skype in in about an hour. No joke.
washingtonexaminer.com
I think the party owes him a "thank you"
Oh man, keep us posted. How many hard leftists have you been hanging with?
What is even the point of secularism if you're just going to act like a religion anyway?
This tbqh. Prayer isn't very secular. Maybe non-theistic? It's definitely religious.
I'm guessing it's supposed to be ironic?
Um, I knew that the green party is a bunch of hippies but prayer to sunflowers and being secular? Did I miss something really important or is this really happening?
I may have pagan beliefs but jeez I am not going to pray to sunflowers as if its a idol of a god or something.
Zizek talks about this. It's like that story about the brilliant mathematicIan that keeps a horseshoe above his door. When asked if he believes it's lucky he says "what do you think I'm an idiot?!" But when asked why he has it he says, "well, the guy I bought it from says it works even for nonbelievers."
I was exaggerating, it was more like a moment of silence, but if another pretentious poem reading happens I'm going to scream.
There's a fair amount of hard leftists there. Not mentioning our VP… Party leadership is basically socdem except for the co-chair Andrea, who crosses paths with SPUSA.
There's a small contingent of radical socialists folks who want to make a contested convention out of a black woman who didn't submit nomination deadlines on time, and so was only in our primary for like 7 days. Doing so would be retarded, but the shitshow would make a good media event.
I think Assange is coming up next.
*sorry for 7 states
Hmm… A sign of solidarity or religious symbolism?
Convention livestream link
youtube.com
CSPAN will have it on tomorrow live
I was exaggerating a bit, will edit a cringe comp if I have time, but you can watch the fun here
Delegates to officiate anti-capitalism amendment soon
youtube.com
This watermelon is green inside. Dollar green.
Am I too salty? Yes, I am.
Leftypol people, there's a chat on this main livestream link.
Tell them your gospel of anti-idpol, it'd be funny
The chat is good. "My Family is from Cuba let me tell you how Communism doesn't work"
These people don't realize that Socialism will lead to communism. Which is funny since they advocate it so much.
Isn't Assange a lolbert techno douche?
I will attempt to amuse
With a ruse
Just for yous
I need someone to do something idpolly. OH WAIT SOMEONE JUST DID IT
Fascinating. What a bizarre country!
Assange will speak in an hour
youtube.com
Audience shot
Assange at 11:45 CST
Welcome to burgerland the best example of what happens when you give the Capitalists full reign of the government system.
Assange is talking now
is he talking about when he's going to finally release those fucking emails
He seems to be buddy buddy with zizek and shows up with a lot of leftists so I don't know
I missed it, what emails specifically.
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I'm not a Green , but I do respect that you guys are at least trying to set up a real left party in the United States.
Do the greens still want to ban guns?
Probably
I'm crying literally. I thought the Green Party was dying, but they did such a great job with this convention. I wish I was in Houston so I could sing with them :(
Relegion is no longer relegion (for normal people). It's purely a cutlural thing now. There is no more illusion of hell and so on. We do it purely in order to form a community, without the belief part.
Riiiight.
You americans and your religion.
kind of
seems like it
seems like it
Although, he is a hero. Although they proclaimed lolbertarianism before getting in trouble, true lolberts don't self-sacrifice to the public like Snowden and Assange did. Assange and Snowden display too much altruism to be full lolbert.