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submitted 21 hours ago by geekwithsoul@lemm.ee to c/politics@lemmy.world

“Federal Election Commission records show Stein paid $100,000 in July to a consulting outfit that has worked with Republican campaigns, as well as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential bid. The firm, Accelevate, is operated by Trent Pool. The Intercept reported that he appeared to be part of the mob that breached the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6., 2021. The Journal hasn’t independently verified the reporting.”

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[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 6 points 1 hour ago
[-] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 1 points 24 minutes ago

If it hasn’t been posted there already, you should post this to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world!

[-] ravhall@discuss.online 5 points 7 hours ago
[-] Soup@lemmy.cafe 46 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Haven’t we all known this about Shill Stein for a very long time, or are we supposed to pretend it’s a big shocking reveal so the leftists can feel better about being duped?

[-] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 21 points 16 hours ago

The people duped by Stein are not the people who call themselves leftists.

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[-] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 87 points 21 hours ago

And not just republicans. You can find all stripes of accelerationist crazies doing that on this very website.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 6 points 13 hours ago

We must bring about glorious revolution, even if our methods aren't particularly effective and millions suffer.

[-] immutable@lemm.ee 16 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

No you see they have a plan.

  1. Convince people likely to vote for Harris to throw away their votes by voting 3rd party or staying home
  2. Suppress democratic turnout while leaving Republican turnout untouched.
  3. Spoil the election while haughtily going “oh not voting is a vote for trump somehow” and snorting to themselves. Completely blind to context.
  4. Have the things they claim to really super duper care about like genocide in Palestine continue under trump
  5. Also have vulnerable groups in America, like legal Haitian migrants, be the target of Republican vitriol.
  6. (step missing)
  7. Glorious proletariat revolution against the most powerful military and militarized police force to ever exist

Its brilliance is in its simplicity!

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 56 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

This is the hilarious tragedy of the Democratic party:

If the race is close, then the electoral college, courts and other methods can be used to bump things to the GOP (2000).

If the race isn't that close, then people will feel comfortable voting third party to "make a statement", which can cost enough votes in key states to cost the election (2016).

[-] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 31 points 20 hours ago

I mean, in 2016 Dems still handily won the popular vote, so it was still the electoral college as the ultimate problem, and third parties were only contributing factors.

In addition to just being a good idea, getting rid of the electoral college would be good because we’d never have to hear about meaningless third-party candidates acting as spoilers. They’d either be real contenders or just narcissists like Jill Stein.

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[-] Spitzspot@lemmings.world 22 points 19 hours ago

Putin's party supports Putin's hand pick spoiler candidate.

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 28 points 20 hours ago

No! Come on, everyone! Third party candidates are what's best for the country. We aren't doing this to dilute the vote, we just want to have our voices heard. Sure, everything we are saying is being said by the main two parties, but we also smoke a lot of weed. So, come on, guys, just vote for the Green Party.

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 21 points 20 hours ago

I vote Green.

Because I live in a country with an actual proportional representation system, so my vote for a minor party still allows the major party that I most closely align with to gain power

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 19 points 19 hours ago

That has no barring on the Green Party this post is about. They are not the same just because they share a name.

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[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago

And I couldn't be more happy for you.

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