• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Shouldn’t Jill Stein be busy giving HJs to her GOP masters by now? She did her job. Everyone has dropped the act. Don’t know why she’s still out here pretending to be a candidate.

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        She’s fucking siphoning votes away from the candidate closest to her supposed views, in a close election where the concept of democracy is at stake. Beyond-obviously. You think you just can just handwave facts away but you never will succeed at that with your campaign of bullshit. You want to imply the threat is that she can win which is laughable. Pretty much all of us see who Shill Stein is.

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          She’s fucking siphoning votes away from the candidate closest to her supposed views

          “Closest” is doing a lot of work there.

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              She’s kind of ideologically incoherent and I’m certainly no supporter of hers, but she is far to the left of both of them.

              Hitler-lite is closer to her position than Hitler-delux, but “closer” is doing a lot of work there.

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                I don’t understand what point you’re making. My point was clear-- if you actually wanted a small fraction of Stein’s ideas to have a chance, you’d vote for Harris. Lemmy users can pretend all day that spoilers candidates aren’t real but that’s ridiculous, of course they are.

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                  Harris is running to the right of Biden in 2020. The point is to emphasize how far she actually is from Stein and that you’re using “closer” in a really loose way to hand-wave the gulf between them. Vote for Harris if you want, but I want you to know you are voting for Hitler-lite to stop Hitler-delux.

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        18 hours ago

        She’s not a threat, she’s running a spoiler campaign to siphon votes. She’s deliberately exploiting a system to affect an outcome.

        That’s like me showing up outside your house and job and plastering “UniversalMonk wants to diddle your kids” posters everywhere. Whether it’s true or not is irrelevant if someone believes the bullshit and subscribes to the idea.

        Being a threat would actually take effort to run a real campaign with real ideas.

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        18 hours ago

        More like pre-emptive blame shifting. Jill Stein voters aren’t going to win or lose this election.

        People who vote for her would just stay home and not vote if she wasn’t on the ballot.

        The issue is Palestine. It’s one of the things young voters mostly care about. And the administrations position on it isn’t going to draw out voters.