• MisterScruffy
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    4 hours ago

    Voting for Jill Stein is only “taking a vote away” from Harris if you assume that the voter would’ve voted for Harris without Stein in the race.

    That’s a big assumption and I don’t think there’s any good reason to make such an assumption.

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      2 hours ago

      In reality a not insignificant portion of them would probably vote for Trump to “own the libs” honestly.

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      4 hours ago

      Other than history showing more ds vote for greens than GOP???

      How dumb are you?

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        As the other option to them is them simply not voting at all; thus not getting their down ballot votes for amendments and other Dem races. Sure. Great idea.

        How dumb are you?

        If the DNC wants green/PSL votes so bad… why not… court said vote… at all? Most notable difference being stance on Israel/palestine, and some socialist policies. Instead the DNC is praising Israel and cracking down on immigration to court republicans. So… can’t really blame them for refusing to vote for what is against their views.

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        4 hours ago

        Based on which party they’re registered as? That doesn’t mean much, it doesn’t mean they’d definitely vote for the D candidate if there wasn’t another option. You’re assuming that the D candidate otherwise has that vote locked down just by being a democrat.

        You can’t “steal” a vote because no one owns that vote except the individual voter and the individual voter is not being robbed when they decide to vote 3rd party.