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Hmm… I wonder why a certain user who’s been posting non-stop about third-party candidates for the entire lifespan of their account chose to ignore this particular article. One would assume it’s important for the voting public to know about this, no?

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Thanks! :-)

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Right?! Thanks, friend! :)

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Who are you referring to? I’m debating some “Harris needs to earn my vote. So it’s her fault if Trump wins.” idiots right now.

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Unfortunately if I name this person there’s a good likelihood this discussion gets removed since the rules prohibit calling out bad faith actors, even the painstakingly obvious ones. So I’ll leave you with this: you needn’t look far to find that which you seek.

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Maybe a play on “omnipresent zealot”

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I’ve had a tag on the user I think you’re referencing for a minute now. It’s quite helpful.

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Hmm. I can think of someone who was recently accused of running two accounts. Something like bad mythical figure name.

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=)

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Who is it?

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I don’t know about you, but I’m saving this post for future citations.

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Solid plan.

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and be sure to save this too:

Stein’s campaign says it wants nothing to do with Duke, the former American Nazi Party member

Stein’s campaign manager, Jason Call, disavowed the endorsement and called Duke “trash.”

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It’s almost like people argue in bad faith on the internet. Fancy that!

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Omg 😱 you might be onto something!

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Or some people just don’t agree with the echo chamber. Just because they don’t change their minds and vote differently than others, doesn’t mean it’s in bad faith. Thanks! :)

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True, some people agree with former KGB agents.

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how does this article impact anyone’s support for a 3rd party?

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Because it’s already been posted here and this community doesn’t allow duplicate posts. It’s also been posted in Politics Unfiltered.

I don’t know what user you’re referring to, but I’ve commented in this thread. And I posted another article referring to David Duke and Jill Stein. https://lemmy.world/post/20893592

I thought it was interesting, so I posted it. Thank you! :)

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Ah so you were late to /c/politics. Well I suppose we all have busy days at work sometimes. You’ll get ‘em next time champ.

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Wait, I thought Lemmy was under the impression that I post every 17 minutes, 24 hours a day?! And that I’m a team of people. Oh AND that I’m a bot.

So if all that’s true, how was I having a “busy” day at work?!

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I can’t laugh heard enough about this.

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Someone should cross post this to a certain Satanist’s page.

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Fake* Satanist

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Unfortunate.

Luckily, I can still hear laughs.

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ERMAGHERD dat typo!

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What I suspect is happening here is that an endorsement of this nature can be seen as a “kiss of death” - folks who might otherwise vote for a candidate might be turned off once they hear this news.

Last time it seems the GOP candidate got the endorsement and lost, so to prevent a “kiss of death” effect in this election he is endorsing a spoiler in order to continue drawing votes away from Harris, while hoping to retain votes for the GOP candidate, causing the election to swing to a GOP win.

Remember, as the GOP guy famously said, “A vote for Stein is a vote for me!”

(Now, will this strategy actually be effective? I have doubts that enough people pay attention to this group for it to be relevant.)

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Who the hell would change their vote from Harris to Stein based on an endorsement from a former Ku Klux Klan leader?!

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Lol

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ouch, that didnt age well for Stein. Well I’m onboard with her owning that David Duke endorsement then.

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You gonna lol at that while harris has been endorsed by cheney and tons of other fash trash?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/these-are-the-republicans-endorsing-harris-over-trump/ar-AA1s9Ro9

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I think it’s fairly obvious who the more fascist candidate is here. I think it says something that Trump is too fascist for Cheney.

Also, shoving Stein’s words in her face doesn’t mean OP agrees with those words, just that Stein’s words are particularly problematic at the moment.

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Cheney almost certainly is concerned about Trump mismanaging US foreign policy, not his fashiness.

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Just my opinion, as an idiot with no marketable skills: I think the more fascist candidate is the one who attempted a coup on Jan 6.

If I can figure it out, what’s other people’s excuse?

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Posting Stein’s tweet is a good burn, but not much more.

Applying Stein’s logic to herself: what did she do to “earn” David Duke’s endorsement? That’s easy: she backed Palestine over Israel. Even if a racist happens to agree, that doesn’t make that stance wrong.

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fairly obvious who the more fascist candidate is here

more fascist

:-/

Lesser of two fascists

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Yeah, 100%. Because it’s ironic.

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Yes, because they understand what a threat to their own existence Trump is. They are doing it out of self interest.

David Duke just likes Jill Stein’s views lmao.

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You ding dongs just lazily skim headlines, post as perceived support for your argument and don’t realize that the article content just highlights how laughable your stated position is - the article that you posted basically talks about these generally horrible people tried everything they could to get on board with trump’s horseshit through their well developed deny/lie skillset… and they couldn’t. Them supporting a Harris vote speaks more to the failure of trump to state any rational coherent plan that these evil selfish cowards could get on board with. These fuckers want the USA to live so they can try to fuck it again in the future, so they endorse the adult in the room.

republicans needs Democrats to rebuild the jenga board every other election cycle so they can have something to headbutt on their next turn. trump wants to take the already toppled board, shove a few pieces up his ass and set the rest on fire Bertie flipping the entire table. Then he wants to make you walk the floor covered in broken, flaming Jenga blocks barefoot. And during all of this, kid rock music is playing VERY LOUD.

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Dems are going to jettison their entire green energy platform and blame Jill Stein.

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He is not just any wizard. He is grand.

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The grandest

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And we all know Lemmy likes wizards.

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I put on my robe and wizard hat.

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I see a bloodninja reference, I upvote. 🤷

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His hat is whack

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The funniest part about this is I had no idea David Duke was alive. He was the main villain of BlackKKlansman. Imagine living to see yourself get written as the villain of a hit movie.

Also, mandatory fuck David Duke and Jill Stein.

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BlackKKlansman

TIL

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