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Jill Stein was a spoiler candidate to help Trump
That's what they're supposed to do, doesn't mean it's what they do in practice.
https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/democracy-now/clip/why-jill-stein-attended-moscow-dinner-with-putin-and-flynn
https://www.newsweek.com/jill-stein-how-why-i-will-stop-kamala-harris-winning-white-house-1961100
There can be only two candidates to choose from, and both will be genocide supporters, and you will be happy you have a vote.
no she wasn't
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-says-jill-stein-favorite-politicians-1980202
https://fairvote.org/jill-stein-and-spoiler-season/
There was a reason she didn’t run in 2020 and that’s because her interference wasn’t needed that year.
that's the year I voted for Howie Hawkins. you're just spreading a baseless conspiracy theory
It’s baseless that she didn’t run in 2020?
Wake up.
prove the claim.
No, I'm not interested in doing your homework for you. Prove I'm wrong.
You're the one that made the claim. if you can't support it I have every reason to doubt it.
Third party candidates are always spoilers, Ralph Nader and Ross Perot being major ones.
Stein is such a good spoiler, that Republicans worked to get her on ballots, knowing she'd draw off more Dems than Reps.
This is basic political knowledge, and you arguing against it marks you as a troll or an idiot. Which are you?
Oh yes, I forgot democracies can only have two candidates to choose from, both with the same foreign policy towards Israel. Do you want a democracy or not? If so, there's got to be room for more parties and candidates.
If you want democracy you want to end winner-takes-all elections and go for proportional representation, and you want ranked choice voting or equivalent.
Attacking people for explaining the consequences of choices with the current terrible voting system doesn't promote democracy
Totally agree with your first point. But the US democratic system is barely democratic imo, and tactical voting simply reinforces the existing 2 party system. The only chance they have for meaningful policy change is breaking the two party monopoly.
Edit: but that's exactly what the Democrats and Republicans don't want to happen.
i don't tolerate abuse. i'll accept your apology any time.
I'm sorry I think you should go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.
disengage
Usually people making claims need citations. Republicans don't give citations to their claims. Maybe we can be better than them?
Its a common tactic by the MAGA Nazis to make their opposition endlessly chase their tails proving what is already thoroughly established. NO matter how much proof is offered, they will completely deny it with propaganda and bullshit, and demand more proof. I won't play their game. They are blissful in their ignorance, and I stopped caring about educating them long ago.
And if significantly less than that 38% had voted for Harris when Trump told them he would destroy America, they could have beaten Trump.
Probably because there were only a few guns found, and he sent mixed messages including telling people to be peaceful and later to go home. I've even seen threads here where people admit it wasn't a real insurrection. It was less violent than things that have happened in places like Seattle - and I get that different rules apply at the Capitol - but bottom line it wasn't a slam dunk as disqualifying him in the public's opinion.
Revisionism
Ask for the guards' takes on what happened instead
what are you gonna do about it?
grow up, either grab a rifle and start shooting at political candidates or vote for the lesser evil, you can't sit in the corner and cry like a 5 year old waiting for the teacher to come and defend you.
This is the real world, nobody is gonna help you but yourself.
Yes, it is unfair, it is fucked and it is bad, but really, what are you gonna do about it?
Maybe folks don't want to vote for their own oppressors, whether the oppressor in chief is Trump or Harris? But Harris would have been less oppressive you say? Tell that to the working poor who have ballooned in numbers under both Democrats and Republicans. And tell it to the Palestinians, most of whom were killed with Biden's bombs.
Riiiight. Yeah. Let’s all take a look around and see how we are SO much better off as a result of your inaction.
My inaction? I'm not American. And neither do I accept the pitiful attempt of Democrats to deflect blame onto everyone but themselves for their embarrassing loss to a literal moron. You lot fucked around with plutocracy and reached the endgame early. Sucks to be you I guess.
As I’ve said before, I have had comments removed from here for bringing up something unrelated to the PTB. Even though it was related as it involved the same mod, it was removed anyway.
Now you’re here to debate a topic unrelated to the mod or the topic, even after I’ve said that I won’t discuss it with you here because I’m following the rules that were cited as reason for the removal of my comments in another post.
Preach, friend! 100 percent true!