• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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      12 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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        12 hours ago

        She’s deliberately exploiting a system to affect an outcome.

        Then that sounds like Democrats think she’s a threat. If she wasn’t a threat, all of that would be a non-issue. I mean, they have spent money on new ads against her. If they didn’t think she was a thread, they wouldn’t have done that.

        And to your point, if you did that to me with your signs, I would definitely view you as a threat. Regardless of your motivation or the falsehood.

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                11 hours ago

                But legit or not, if she wasn’t a threat, they’d ignore her. And they are not ignoring her, they just released new ads against her yesterday. So obviously they see her as threat.

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                  She’s a spoiler, not a threat. A threat requires her to hold actual power, which she is not capable of doing without the GOP in her back pocket. She won’t win, she can literally only take votes from the two primary candidates, like every other third party candidate (yes, including whichever flavor you claim to be supporting this afternoon). The Dems are worried about Kamala losing by 100 votes because idiots think that they’re getting a one up by voting third party, when actually all they’re doing is pissing away their vote and empowering a Trump victory.

                  Jill Stein is a GOP operative. That’s all she is. She doesn’t care about Gaza, the climate, or anything else, because if she did she would drop out to avoid a spoiler that would ruin all of those things due to a Trump win. She’s a tool for Trump.

                  ETA: Let me be clear, I don’t give a shit who you, Monk vote for, because you clearly are already a lost cause. My comments to you are always for everyone else who actually cares about not electing a fascist, and never you. Sorry if I confused you by thinking I care about your personal vote or thoughts.

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      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.