sukhmel comments on Remember when 30° was considered tropical?

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Did those exist? I don't quite remember anyone in my country who had climate in their agenda (not even now, afaik)

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[–] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Don't know where you're from but i bet there is a green party in your country that got like 1% of the votes in the last election.

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

There is GreenPeace that was outlawed this year, but yes there is a green party, it only once reached 1% and they hold 0.1% of seats in regional governments, so they existed indeed. I never thought of this as a way to do something about the issue. On the downside they have a pretty bad stance on everything else, and even the green position is not very consistent

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[–] tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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.

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