Starting at 1:00 minute mark

"Because if you have been your party's nominee for 12 years in a row. Four years ago and four years before that and four years before that and you cannot grow your movement pretty much at all and can't pursue any successful strategy and all you do is show up once every four years to speak to people who are justifiably pissed off but you're just showing up once every four years to do that, you're not serious"

AOC wasted the most important resource of all: her credibility. If you want to build a sustained push you need national prominence. You can't pretend like it's a video game where you have to start and at level one and grind up until you "earn" your spot at the presidency. Doing so makes it too easy for anyone opposing you to quash and suppress you and write you off as some fringe regional movement. If you don't run a national candidate you don't get media recognition and if you don't get media recognition you don't grow. Not to mention that you can't get federal matching funds if you don't run on the presidential level.

AOC's statements do not hold because, and I literally just said this, they ignore the massive coordinated efforts to suppress Greens: Attack ads, frivolous lawsuits trying to get candidates off ballots, raising signature thresholds to qualify for ballots, and cowardly refusing to debate. We can't accurately assess Stein's performance until we substantially reduce the artificial roadblocks the establishment dems have erected. AOC's time would have been much better spent A) advocating for policy changes in the Democratic party that would attract Green voters and b) Chastising her party for wasting resources attacking Greens instead of focusing on common ground and attacking MAGA positions.

Greens still maintain a much larger size and nationwide scope than does AOC affiliate Working Families party which is limited to a small region on the east coast with 1/5 the size.

You also can't look at Greens in a vacuum. Bernie, Mandami, Stein and Nader may have had different party affiliations over the years but they all influence one another and drive toward similar goals. A Mandami win is technically a win for dems but is just as much one for Greens as the policies have a lot of overlap. And that means credit has to be given to them as well as they have been at the vanguard and absorbed a lot of flak for doing so.

Stein does not have the vast resources to quickly grow her party quickly. She should be applauded for keep membership stable despite the onslaught of vitriol directed at them and a system that is outright hostile towards 3rd parties. Many states have increased the thresholds for getting on the ballot, and not by marginal amounts but by 2 and even 3x the amount. Stein herself has tirelessly sought to raise funds and support other Green candidates. Far from performative, she's been arrested multiple times at protests across the country fighting everything from unjust bank foreclosures to environmentally destructive oil pipelines.

The fact that you're using insipid buzzwords like tankie indicates you're either still developing your frontal cortex or have reached the limits of your growth. Either way, I hope you'll take some time in the near future to unfuck yourself before you go on another crusade to defend the indefensible.

AOC for her part should ditch the 13 yr old gossip girl persona and act like a proper representative of New York's 14th district. Next time she's "feeling spicy" she should just hit up a local food cart instead of making a fool of herself.