Wow, her chance of winning is so high. And won’t tip the results toward the right wing at all And pigs have wings
Something something Russian check is in the mail Jill.
Totally not running as a spoiler, nahhh. Not good ol Jill Spoiler Stein! She just wants you to Send A Message™ (at an incredibly important time that has lasting repercussions if you actually follow through.)
Here’s an idea, if you actually gave a shit Jill, why not lead the charge for ranked choice voting!!! Put your damn face all over the media when it’s not an election year so you can actually push for positive change. At least then you’d stand a chance and people could actually vote for you! But no, that’s not the intent. The intent is to syphon votes from Democrats again.
i think she’d be just as happy to “syphon votes from” republicans. i think she wants all the votes she can get and doesn’t much care who your second choice would be.
Show me a republican who would vote for the green party, and I’ll show you a very confused and lonely magic crystal and energy healing enthusiast.
technically, at the moment, i am registered republican, but i vote green.
I feel the word “technically”, here, is likely pulling so much weight that it invalidates your comment entirely.
i mean the whole idea of identifying with a party is pretty invalid IMHO.
democrats don’t own the votes, the voters do. they need to earn them like everyone else.
Of course they don’t own the votes, but you vote to get an outcome. If you’re voting for someone third party who has literally 0 chance of winning, but actually agree with some of what the Democrats want and not much at all of what Republicans want then the only outcome you get is the party you agree with least winning because you wanted to send a message to the party you partially agreed with.
the only outcome you get is the party you agree with least winning because you wanted to send a message to the party you partially agreed with.
it’s not about sending a message to democrats or republicans. it’s about who i want to win. also, it’s really hard to tell which party i agree with least.
That’s what I thought the first time as well. It turns out that who you want to win means fuck all in real life. It’s a bit like saying “I don’t want my arm to be broken” when you fall on it. I’m sure you don’t, but if you care about how it heals you’ll go to the hospital and get a cast put on it, even if it’s uncomfortable.
And to me, it’s easy to figure out who I agree with least. One of them actively wants LGBT folks dead, and the other one doesn’t actively want that. Everything else could be exactly the same and it would still be braindead easy to figure out.
if it means so much to you, I live in a swing state. the state penalty for selling my vote is $5k. that’s the federal fine, too. put another 10k on top for my troubles and I’ll vote any way you like.
I wouldn’t count on the Democrats to keep genocidal maniacs from your doorstep. better to get a gun and join a local resistance movement.
I’d rather the people that don’t presently want genocidal maniacs killing me and my friends be in office than the genocidal maniacs themselves, and you must recognize that it is, in fact, one of those two choices that are going to win.
they’re not the same with one exception tho. they’re both deeply bad In similar and unique ways. neither is acceptable.
In what way are Democrats bad, that Republicans aren’t?
Good news is there’s like 300 of you in the country so it doesn’t matter
if it didn’t matter why is my inbox full?
Are you serious right now?
Green Party will always run a candidate. Just be thankful their candidate is the charmless husk of a moron that is Jill Stein.
I which she’d formally launch herself off a tall ledge.
Been there. Done that. Not again.
I understand Jill Stein’s connections to Russia are because of RT (Russia Today), who was publishing lots of US progressive content back in 2016, at a time when no US media would touch any of it. Yea, it sucks that we had to have Russia of all places publish progressive content, such as Pro Bernie Sanders, StandingRock protests, and Green Party positions to get any visability AT ALL. So Stein was at a table with other people who were getting their issues published by RT, and Putin joined in. Now I wouldn’t get anywhere near any RT content.
I mean that connection is hardly incidental, she attended conferences with Putin and Putin had it out for Clinton personally after she made comments calling his reelection’s legitimacy into question because of how rigged it was.
Ah I remember this. In 2016 I didn’t know what RT was but I really liked their coverage, mostly because NPR and any mainstream American media wouldn’t cover Bernie in a positive manner. Got a bit of whiplash in 2017 from that.
You know what would be amazing, if a third party candidate would run and then demand policy position concessions form the Democratic nominee in exchange for dropping out, rather than running through the election and risking a Republican presidency.
The green party is routinely funded by the GOP. Their existence is to be a spoiler and pull votes from Dems to swing races towards republicans.
They’re already doing what they’re being paid to do.
That’s kinda what the WFP does?
They have a sort of tacit agreement with the Dems where they’ll run their candidates in the Dem Primary pool and then both will endorse the winner, and then they’ll only compete directly when there’s no chance it’ll throw a race to the Republicans.
I think that’s the only rational way to interpret her run. Even she doesn’t want to run through.
Edit: I checked her record on previous runs, and omg I was so wrong…
Yyyyyep, she’s a regular Nader type, unfortunately.
How on the hell do Green party members stand behind her? Her leadership undermines all the good intentions of the party policies.
oh fuck off, jill
Oh Jill
Remember when Jill Stein helped elect Donald Trump?
Dobbs remembers!
no. that didn’t happen.
Electricity wasn’t discovered either.
i don’t follow.
Aren’t we spouting baseless lies?
i wasn’t
Ah so it was ignorance in your case?
no, it was the truth.
You mean the Russian puppet Jill Stein? I’m pretty sure the Republicans are already doing that one.
jill stein isn’t a russian puppet
Yes she is.
you have no proof for this.
Can you elaborate on this comment a bit?
this link undermine the claim she is a Russian asset
Again? How much did Putin offer her this time?
For a stand up gal like her? At least 1 dollar
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Don’t let them lie. It is a 2 party system here bucko.
We need a Green Party in the US but this ain’t it.
We need ranked choice or approval voting before third parties actually have a chance.
How are you going to get that by voting for people who don’t support it?
Ballot measures. Plenty of places have done it this way.
Half of the states in the US don’t have ballot measures.
Dems literally tried to pass a law that would incentivize transitioning to it but ok.
Why let facts get in the way of a good “both sides same!”
Dems literally tried to pass a law that would incentivize transitioning to it
Source?
These comments are hilarious. All y’all arguing about third parties being spoilers. I can’t believe anyone bothers to vote. If we could change anything by voting they wouldn’t let us do it.
Fuck off Jill
