In a de facto two party system it certainly can feel like a spoiler vote, however a single issue party can be highly influential in getting larger parties to adopt better positions on those single issues in order to avoid having votes syphoned away. In a truely multiparty system, a single issue party can directly extract concessions if they end up as part of a coalition government or are in a king-maker situation following an election.

2. I did everything I could, I recycled and brought my own cup to the coffee shop

Everything I could, except vote for representatives who prioritize climate over line-go-up

Not anymore they’re not.

Pride celebrations struggle as corporate sponsorships dry up

Trump’s anti-DEI initiatives have been successful in changing boardroom behavior across the country.

Seems they were never really on anyone’s side to begin with.

Number two, what is this right to exist? Where does it come from? Because states don’t have a right to exist. No such natural or legal right exists. People, individuals have a right to exist. Human beings have that right. Not states, not countries. States change their composition, their governing structures, their ideologies, their regimes, their borders all the time. They’re not fixed for eternity.

I think this is the strongest argument when faced with this question. While I already agree with the premise that people have inherent, inalienable rights and nation states do not, I find that others will argue that their nation state also has the “right to exist”. And that’s when the examples come in handy:

• Did Nazi Germany have the right to exist?
• Did apartheid South Africa have the right to exist?
• Did Rhodesia have the right to exist?

In each case, most people would say no, those nation states did not have the right to exist, not in those forms.

Israel might have just committed the single most self-defeating act of this disastrous war so far.

Not if your goal is a failed state, like in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria.

It would literally be a proportionate response.

It has been pretty low for decades already.

1973 Nobel Peace Prize Winner - Henry Kissinger

Forgot this one:

Imagine buying a house.

Plus, look at the great job of keeping commercial real estate prices high they’re all doing

Just throw human death and suffering at them until they’re finished!

You mean the programming socks?