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    8 months ago

    What happened with her? She seemed okay when she was running a few elections ago and had some support, but then went a bit off and I stopped following her.

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        8 months ago

        Source: your ass

        All you liberals have is a picture of her at a table with Putin as if Democrats you vote for haven’t sat at a table with Putin before

        • 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.dev
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          8 months ago

          https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/26/facebook-russia-trump-sanders-stein-243172

          It’s a well-established fact that a part of her social media campaign was funded by the Russians.

          To be clear: I’m not saying she necessarily did all this in cahoots with Putin. Russia funded divisive ads that boosted Sanders too. Regardless, Sanders quit the race whilst Stein did not. That means she acted as a spoiler candidate, where a vote for her means it’s more likely that a republican candidate wins instead, instead of the democrat candidate that a green voter is likely more aligned with. It’s an unfortunate effect of the two-party system. Nonetheless, those effects are well-known and Stein had a snowball’s chance in hell of getting elected. She knew this, but decided to remain on the ballot anyway. Her candidacy therefore did help Trump win the election.

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            8 months ago

            Did you even read the article? Facebook presented no proof of this and you just take it as fact.

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          8 months ago

          as if Democrats you vote for haven’t sat at a table with Putin before

          Such as? Apart from, you know, people who were president and were doing it because presidents generally meet other world leaders?

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          8 months ago

          as if Democrats you vote for haven’t sat at a table with Putin before

          For example?