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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And she's a putin shill. So who cares.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Welcome back.

In the sixty days since this account was created, it has made four thousand seven hundred and ninety-one submissions to Lemmy.

That averages out to one every eighteen minutes and two seconds twenty-four hours a day seven days a week.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 28 points 1 month ago

The squad of vatniks running this really doesn't want to go to the front.

[–] pooperNickel@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

Nah nah see it's cool because this user totally didn't get temp banned for the intentional bad faith practices they are doing. Definitely not that. But see if anyone else gets banned or moderated in any way, it's something we definitely should gleefully shove in their face for days as proof that they did something

[–] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Be careful, I already got a warning and my comment deleted for analyzing and breaking down all of this information on another one of UniversalMonk's posts.

Apparently using math as a tool to show the objectively suspicious behavior of a user is somehow a "Rule 3 violation". Don't use your brains kids. That's against the rules!

I went on to the modlogs and read that removed comment of yours and I think mine will be okay.

Thanks for letting me know though.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Jill Stein is a Russian plant, and anyone promoting her is a traitor.

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[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Right back on it, I see. Interesting how you once again choose to almost entirely post articles here about candidates you aren’t even voting for. Nothing happening for Rachel Fruit for the last three days of your absence? Can’t say that’s too surprising.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If you can't tell the difference between Harris and Trump, your political opinion is 110% invalid.

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[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And man, I found this amusing:

…Stein told Reuters after a rally attended by about 100 people in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn on Sunday

Weekend rally in one of her supposed “strongholds” of support, and she only had 100 folks show up? There’s city council candidates there that get bigger turnout at events.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just offer free food and you’d get more. It doesn’t even have to be good food.

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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (26 children)

They're back and posting BS! Jill (a Russian asset) is still more evil than Kamala, so it really doesn't matter what she thinks. I can't wait until the election is over so that you stop posting about the candidate that will lose.

[–] jhymesba@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (51 children)

Emphasis on this point.

Jill Stein has NO path to victory. She would require a 50%+1 majority in at least 270 EV worth of states. She doesn't even have 10% of the vote share in any state. Thus a vote for her is only marginally better than a vote for Trump, and about as effective as staying home on Election Day.

This particular poster's shiny object, Rechele Fruit, has even LESS of a chance. This candidate would require 50%+1 in three states, plus a successful write-in campaign for 50%+1 in another nine states (has that EVER happened in a SINGLE state) to get 87 EVs, a far cry from the 270 she needs to be elected. A vote for her is a fart in the wind. She doesn't even make the polling.

One of two people will take the Oath of Office in 2025. If you don't want Donald Trump and Project 2025 shoved up our privates, vote Harris. If you don't want Harris, for whatever reason, may you suffer the consequences of Project 2025 particularly harshly, though I doubt many of the shi...err, posters who post here bashing Harris and the Dems will have to suffer the consequences of their claimed votes.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I mostly agree, with one correction:

Thus a vote for her is only marginally better than a vote for Trump

It isn’t. A vote for her IS a vote for trump, because FPTP voting means a (fake) non-right candidate can only siphon votes from the left.

Here’s a great video that shows why, mathematically, she can only help trump win, and explains why a lot of Stein’s money comes from Republican (and Russian) interests. She’s not grass-roots, and she’s not left-leaning. Saying she’s a Russian asset is not hyperbole.

She’s not marginally better than trump – she’s actively anti-democratic.

e: my autocorrect really hates me today.

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[–] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shill Stein just needs to come out and say that she supports Trump and Putin. Stop skirting around the issue.

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