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    The JillStein Bot explaining why Joe Biden shouldn’t be allowed to be the next president, really not updating their talking points

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      No, they’re just super efficient and very good at planning. They know that Joe Biden can technically still be president for another term, so they’re heading him off on his 2028 comeback run. /s

      Ps hello fellow lawyer.

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    This is the first real meal I had in years.

    Said someone who lives off popcorn! 🍿

    I’m not judging you though. I used to love this sort of drama. (I still do, a bit.)

  • Didn’t the staff behind AMA leave during the APPocalypse shit? I remember seeing something about how they’ve basically stopped vetting people to verify they are who they claim to be for these and I’m wondering how full of bots and trolls that sub is now.

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      If by staff you mean “volunteers”, then yes. The actual Reddit staff that helped facilitate AMAs disappeared during the Ellen Pao drama.

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    Wow, I only briefly perused and that was a bloodbath. Hard to imagine how she might have imagined that going any better.

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    You’ll notice politicians largely stopped doing AMAs back in 2016 when /r/The_Donald completely swamped the system. Given the degree to which Reddit is a system by and for bot-farms, Jill was sticking her foot squarely into a bear trap just by setting this up.

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    American democracy is fucked because the voters themselves stoped believing that the two party system is bad.

    You can’t be critical of both parties at once. One is evil, another is pure love.

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      Oooh no, don’t you clump all of us together. A LOT of us fucking despise the two party system for the trash heap it is.

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      The two party system is hot flaming garbage.

      In order for ranked choice voting on a national level to get incorporated, the elected officials have to vote to change the system that put them in power. Neither of the two parties’ politicians wants that, since it would then be easier for someone else to potentially beat them, so it doesn’t happen.

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    Blue MAGA having a collective meltdown is a sight to behold.

    “Let me ignore Democrats being fully bankrolled by israel. And committing literal Genocide. I have this 10 year old picture where Putin is on the other side of a table you are sitting at”

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      Funny, I often run into the most combative people with “ACKCHYUALLY” attitudes when speaking to libertarians. Republican Pot Smoking Edition models of political worldview tend to try very hard to defend their very nuanced mental gymnastics of being able to be a little empathetic on the surface socially while still turning their back on those less fortunate in actions.

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      Yes, here are the MAGA B-team campaigners on Lemmy, self-aware they are supporting a vile cult and so pretending “Blue MAGA” is a thing. Your main campaigners on larger platforms like reddit don’t even know who the Dem candidate is, but they are serious candidates we should take seriously, for some reason.

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      like seriously. when will libs notice the democrats are also fucking them over big time, as if nothing has changed?

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    She did fine, if anything it was eye opening to me how many shitlibs are on r/politics

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        Notable differences between Stein and Harris:

        • opposes genocide in Gaza
        • opposes fracking
        • stronger on the environment
        • approves of single payer healthcare
        • approves of tuition free colleges for all
        • wants to slash our bloated military budget

        I live in a blue state and will be voting Green to try to build momentum for third parties and STAR voting. I do hope Trump is defeated and thrown in jail, and I’d reconsider my vote if I lived in a purple state.

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            Voting blue in a solid blue state for a candidate I have huge moral issues with (Palestine, climate change) is the definition of throwing my vote away.

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              You’re still throwing your vote away.

              Even if I accept that any state is really as solid blue as people may think, we have the opportunity as a nation to cast an overwhelming vote against fascism. That would be sending a message that the entire free world could be proud of. Nah, you can’t be bothered. You’d rather cast your vote for a Putin asset.

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                Even if I accept that any state is really as solid blue as people may think, we have the opportunity as a nation to cast an overwhelming vote against fascism.

                I’m voting for the Green party, not a fascist.

                That would be sending a message that the entire free world could be proud of.

                The entirety of the United Nations except the US and Israel has condemned the massacre in Gaza as a genocide. You think everyone would be proud of voting for someone who intends to continue to ship weapons to Israel?

                You’d rather cast your vote for a Putin asset.

                No proof and regardless this is bigger than Jill Stein, this is about building power to the left of the Democratic party. Claudia De la Cruz would definitely be my preferred candidate over Stein, but it is what it is.

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          It’s so weird you immediately list the differences between Stein and Harris, but not Trump. Totally unprompted. Considering that a third party is going against the other two, that’s odd. Almost like you know exactly what you’re doing, but won’t admit it.

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            Why would I list the differences between Stein and Trump when I literally just said that I hope Trump loses (and thrown in jail). At no point was I ever considering voting for him. The whole point is that third parties aren’t part of the corporate duopoly.

            I’m explaining why I’m voting my conscience in a rigged FPTP system where my vote otherwise amounts to nothing (because again I’m in a blue state), but clearly nothing I say is going to stop you from making insinuations.

            Edited: the last sentence of my first paragraph for clarity

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            Ah, name-calling instead of addressing my argument; classic!

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      It always amazes me that people who think they’re tough, alpha male, strong willed people fall to their knees immediately when a strong daddy in a suit or uniform shows up.