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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.
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.
A piece of shit can't be a threat, from my understanding.
Well, the Democratic party seems to disagree with you, hence the recent ads. Thanks!
They're calling her out for what she is, which is not a legit candidate.
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.
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.
Well, the dem part just spent money on an ad campaign, directed towards her. They see her as a threat, even if you don't.
Sorry, did you miss the last part of my comment? Again, sorry if I misled you into thinking I care about your thoughts - I don't past telling other people that what you say is nonsense. You're either ignorant, misinformed, or purposefully malicious. Why would I ever care about your personal thoughts?
This is a public forum. You shared your thoughts. I shared mine. Thanks, friend! :)
Ah, I'm glad you're sarcastically thankful as always! I was simply apologizing because you seemed to have been mistaken in thinking I care what you think (I don't).
It's not sarcasm. I have no reason to dislike you.
I'm appreciative of your passion about political news, even though your opinions are different than mine.
I totally respect your right to have your opinions. Thank you! :)
Ah, yep, there's more of that classic surface-level niceness that I remember from the other conservative Mormons while growing up in Utah. Too bad that you're bad at it.
I do not have a passion for political news, but I do have a passion for calling out bullshit. Does that still count?
Friend, as long as you are passionate about something, then I'm glad you're doing what makes you happy. That's a great thing. Thank you! :)
Yep, it sure makes me happy when I see you following your script because it's so transparent, I genuinely hope you keep it up because of that. If you were only just slightly better at what you do, you'd probably find some success. But since you refuse to even change your go-to excuses for posting propaganda, it's fairly easy to see right through you.
I just post news articles written by news orgs. Thank you! :)
Yep, that's the #1 thing you like to say to excuse your bad behavior (it's literally number one on my list)!
Propagandists love to pass their distasteful behavior on to someone else and vice versa, that's why posting propaganda is the same thing as writing it.
Wanna keep pretending this doesn't matter?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_effect
Doesn't matter. And I don't care, because I'm not voting for Harris or Trump. If the Democrat Party is that scared of some "spoiler effect," then they shouldn't be such jerks to people who don't believe in all the same things they do. Thank you! :)
Sorry facing facts is impossible for you Mr "I don't block people I disagree with"