“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.”
And not just republicans. You can find all stripes of accelerationist crazies doing that on this very website.
We must bring about glorious revolution, even if our methods aren’t particularly effective and millions suffer.
No you see they have a plan.
- Convince people likely to vote for Harris to throw away their votes by voting 3rd party or staying home
- Suppress democratic turnout while leaving Republican turnout untouched.
- Spoil the election while haughtily going “oh not voting is a vote for trump somehow” and snorting to themselves. Completely blind to context.
- Have the things they claim to really super duper care about like genocide in Palestine continue under trump
- Also have vulnerable groups in America, like legal Haitian migrants, be the target of Republican vitriol.
- (step missing)
- Glorious proletariat revolution against the most powerful military and militarized police force to ever exist
Its brilliance is in its simplicity!
Convince people likely to vote for Harris to throw away their votes
Why do you believe folks voting for Stein would be likely Harris voters?
I’m much more interested in your plan than whatever strawman you can make up about the voters whom Democrats have left on the table for objecting to the genocide they want to fund.
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).
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.
Getting rid of the electoral college would not solve spoiler candidates necessarily. For that you would need to replace it with ranked voting or multiple rounds. Would still be a good idea, as the college just means presidents caring a lot more about swing states.
Without the electoral college though, the only time a third party candidate could act as a spoiler would be if they had a significant share of the vote. They deserve to be spoilers in those cases I think. My problem is with folks pulling in 1% - 3% of the vote in a single state ultimately deciding a national election.
But yeah, RCV would be the best way to ensure better representation (though honestly it can still easily have what could be viewed as “spoilers”)
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?
Are the democrat candidates not shills themselves?
That being said, fuck Jill Stein for squandering the Green Party. She needs to go away
Who are they shilling for? See, Comrade Stein is shilling for Russia. As we know- there is a connection. But who exactly would the democrats be accused of shilling for?
But who exactly would the democrats be accused of shilling for?
Netanyahu. AIPAC bought two candidates right out in the open. The party welcomes foreign interference against progressives.
Lol what? Are you just totally ignorant to corporate involvement in politics? Do you know what a lobbyist is?
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.
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
That has no barring on the Green Party this post is about. They are not the same just because they share a name.
I guess my point is less about the party specifically, are more that your country might not be collapsing quite so quickly if 49% of the population didn’t feel massively disenfranchised every 4 years, and if there were actually incentives for collaboration and compromise between different view points
Hear, hear!
She rejects the notion that her presence in the race could help Trump.
She can’t acknowledge that it’s possible this year? When it was known for a fact that it happened eight years ago?
I think everyone basically agrees - the key to getting those voices heard is to build the party from the bottom up, develop a grassroots and get folks elected at all levels of government who can help influence policy, starting local. Stein is the opposite of that.
Before Stein, the Green party had a marginal presence and was likely on the way out… I almost wonder, what if it actually did fall apart and die while Stein was in charge, but she kept the clothes?
If it hasn’t been posted there already, you should post this to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world!
