Green politicians from across Europe on Friday called on U.S. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein to withdraw from the race for the White House and endorse Democrat Kamala Harris instead.

“We are clear that Kamala Harris is the only candidate who can block Donald Trump and his anti-democratic, authoritarian policies from the White House,” Green parties from countries including Germany, France, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland, Estonia, Belgium, Spain, Poland and Ukraine said in a statement, which was shared with POLITICO ahead of publication

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    If she didn’t her Votes wouldn’t go to Harris lol. If people don’t want to Vote Dem they aren’t going vote Dem. Harris has had all the time in the world to put effort into courting voters the same way she did Republicans. I plan on voting Third Party only for future elections. I want nothing to do with people who excuse genocide and link up with Dick Cheney.

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        Ask Dick Cheney to tell Harris to changer her Border Policy and stop genocide and I’ll vote for her next time. :) I don’t care you subservient peon. I’m not standing with Dick Cheney or Liberals anymore. You don’t hate Republicans enough. You’re literally fine with right-wing policy if a (D) is doing it.

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            There more choices on the ballot than two. Sorry not Americans are heartless dogs who jump when Dems tell them to do so. Harris closer to Policy than to Trump than any of the other choices on the Ballot. People also live in Red States you goober.

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              I don’t have the patience to bandy more words with a witless traitor who’d sell out his country and people for a fucking fascist. You want to convince yourself that you’re taking a moral stance, good for fucking you. Why don’t you get a 12v battery and some alligator clips and make the auto eroticism complete while you masturbate in front of us all?

              Meanwhile you will be enabling the genocide by your actions or omission of action, and betraying not just the Palestinians but every American as well.

              In short, fuck you, fuck the horse you rode in on, and fuck your misbegotten, misinformed stance. You are literally why why cannot have nice things, you vapid mouth breather.

  • مهما طال الليل
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    It wouldn’t be this close if Harris just came out against the genocide in Gaza. Instead she has shunned Arab and Muslim voters.

    I am in Pennsylvania and I am voting for Jill Stein. Everything I could have done to communicate my grievances I have tried, including meeting with my representative who just insulted me instead of even feigning humanitarian concern.

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    That would be against the entire purpose of her campaign.

    Havent they pretty much admitted that shes running cause republicans have paid for her campaign, to try and split votes from democrats?

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    “Why do you think I’m running? Isn’t this like telling me not to drink water to prevent hydration?” - Jill Stein probably

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    I think from a third party point of view that makes no sense. It’s not for her to prop up the broken electoral system. Harris is essentially the lesser evil in this argument, but the real problem is the electoral system.

    Arguably the “better” outcome for third parties is for Harris to win the popular vote and lose the election because of the stupid electoral college system. That may actually get Democrats more serious about electoral reform which would benefit everyone. They’ve already lost twice despite winning the popular vote (Gore and H Clinton). Yet they continue to support broken electoral systems across the country at national and state level as all they care about is Dem vs Rep. Not actual democracy.

    The Democrats didn’t even have a proper primary contest in this election, they value democracy so little. They tried to forced Biden on the party and voters and it blew up spectacularly. The party needs a shake up and frankly losing may be better for them than Harris saving them from the party’s own disastrous mismanagement.

    I’m no fan of trump, but Americas problems run far deeper and are far more systemic than one election.

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      If you’re an internet rando, and don’t understand the broken game theory behind FPTP, then you’re an idiot. It’s obvious!

      If you’re a candidate, and don’t understand the broken game theory behind FPTP, then that’s fine, you’re not playing dumb or anything. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and go kick that football.

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      While the electoral college is problematic, it isn’t relevant in this regard. First past the post is the issue.

    • RubberDuck
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      So voting for a hand puppet with no serious program, credentials, infrastructure to govern is better? Stein has no ambitions to make american do anything better, else she would be front and center actually doing something between election cycles… but she does not. If anything you have more risks, cause in the case she would magically win, who would become het cabinet? You have no clue who and what they stand for… And that should worry you … A lot.

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      The electoral system will be fixed if Trump wins. He will just dissolve it and end the election process. Voila! Reform!

      🙄

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    European Greens must be dumb as fuck then, because the US Green party exists to:

    Get

    Republicans

    Elected

    Every

    November

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      Maybe if your candidate were more popular than a rapist felon you wouldn’t need to worry about the Greens.

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      and republicans exist the dnc can put a boogeyman every election so we will have to vote for these corrupt scammers. our political system is so broken that we either get lobbyists controlled genocidal hacks or a dumb racist genocider.

      its like asking to eat either dogpoop or vomited dogpoop

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        Two sides of the same coin am I right!? Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit.

        I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh and other hate radio. There is no liberal comparison.

        They regularly called for the death of liberals amongst other horrible shit. The toxicity comparison is ridiculous when the other side is liberals saying they wish conservative voters were not misled.

        I get you don’t like the government. I don’t either, but this is not a god damned game of good cop bad cop.

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          They regularly called for the death of liberals amongst other horrible shit

          they are the same vocal minority as those on dnc side who have said if trumps wins then they want all muslims who didn’t vote for harris to be deported to gaza.

          they two parties may not be the same but they are both bad and corrupt enough that we need to start voting them out. after 2016 primaries i have no confidence in dnc to not rig the primaries against an actual liberal candidate again.

          there are easy things harris can still do to improve her chances but she is not even moral enough to disapprove genocide, progressive enough to disapprove fracking. she has failed upwards in the corrupt dnc as a token minority whose career has been of a smug prosecutor who has only looked down on minorities.

          but hey why not just run a propaganda campaign against jill stein who has been pro-climate since 1998.

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            Trump fomented anti-muslim sentiment and literally passed a travel ban against Muslim countries.

            The RNC completely rolled over for Trump in ways far worse than the DNC snubbing Berny.

            Harris is not pro-genocide no matter how many times you say it. You make it out like decades of gloves on diplomacy with Israel is suddenly her fault.

            Trump is open to letting Israel do whatever it wants and while in office stroked tensions between Israel and Palestine several times.

            To blow off the fact that she would be the first woman president and to trivialize her to a token representative speaks a lot about your mindset.

            If Jill Stein endorses Harris knowing she is the only remotely pro-climate candidate that could win then perhaps she isn’t the piece of shit everyone says she is. I won’t hold my breath waiting.

            One side is climate change denialists and the other isn’t. Two sides of the same coin right?

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                What an unwarranted insult to the noble equine!

                This Shadowfax is a cheap, flawed imitation. A dollar store replica. A sad, sad doppelganger.

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                Because politicians can’t just put somone in jail. The judiciary is an independent branch.

                Also you seem to be a 29 minute old account who has like 15 comments on a single issue and nothing else. Which is always sketchy.

                The entite purpose of your account seems to be “Harris bad”

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                  You’re talking to antiyanks, a troll that has been banned on over 30 accounts on this community. Don’t waste your time with anyone with “yanks” in their user, as it’s just them.

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              To blow off the fact that she would be the first woman president and to trivialize her to a token representative speaks a lot about your mindset

              let me detail out the “tokens” here. do know that i am of indian origin as well.

              • immigrant : her mother comes from a upper caste rich family, harris grandfather was a officer in imperial service while many indians were being killed and jailed during its independence struggles. an upper caste privilege in india was worse than white privilege in US at that time. her mother was able to come here as an entitlement. so when dnc uses her as a symbol for immigrant struggles it irks a lot of indian’s whose parents have to escape india because of corruption and casteism and had to work hard to get here and survive in early days.

              and then there is her advocating for border wall and getting tough on immigration so basically adopting trump policy from 2016.

              • as a non-white she doesn’t seem very empathetic to them : this is an article from 2020 in herrald when she was already chosen as vp over warren (a woman) because lobbyist and mega-rich donors told bidden not to. if not for that she would never even gotten to be a dnc candidate here in 2024. warren was 3rd in the primaries way ahead if harris. warren today would have won by a landslide today and she has already called out on the genocide.

              so yes she is a token candidate from establishment.

              i am not even going to address other points as i am not voting or supporting gop. if a vp and presidential nominee don’t not even have power of condemning mass killing of children with our money then what’s the point of voting for them. choosing lesser evils never works it only brings more evil as we saw in 2020.

              then there are stunts like this which confirms to me that she is just a lobbyists placeholder.

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      Yup, even my friend Fred the Fungi was just yapping about this, told me to follow the money.

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      Yarp, and still voted for her because harris is that bad and hasnt shifted at on key issues that actually relate to the role of president. Like supporting labor (kahn, no strike busting, etc) and follwing the law with respect to weapon sales/delivery.

      Focus your energy on getting harris to move, its a lot easier than getting people like me to move; we actually have moral values, harris doesnt. Though at this point its unlikely there are many hold outs waiting for her. Cast my ballot a week ago. Good luck in your efforts! Im rooting for you 🤷

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        “My moral values allow me to vote against my best interests and the welfare of anyone who doesn’t align with the christofascist right. I have such a difficult time with concepts like “logical thinking” and “cause and effect” that I can rationalize such a terrible decision and even pretend that I’m the solution!”

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        At least you are not worried about all the extra people in the world that will get hurt by your reactionary stance leading to a trump presidency. If you can’t have your way, let the world burn… Gotcha.

        In this case you either vote against actual fascism or risk it taking over.

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        Nothing to believe. The proof is in front of your eyes. Green Party funding is from Russian sources. Jill loves to have dinners with Putin and the oligarchs.

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        It holds a little more weight when you’ve been photographed at a formal dinner alongside every single Russian head of state.

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      any proof ? and are we to ignore the dnc has significant funding from aipac to enable them to murder kids with our tax money ?

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        GEnOcIdE!!! Whatabout!!!

        It will ve a nice place when you all leave by tuesday.

        Oh wait, maybe you’ll be back whining about voter fraud

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          Its not what about to mention harris’ policy position on gaza its extremely relevant to Harris’ campaign in particular to the nonsense being spouted here.

          Only one person had to shift to be less of a shit human and that was harris and this issue would have disappeared immediately. Learn to properly focus your energy. To help you with this process let me give you a breakdown of choices you as an individual had:

          1. Which is easier changing the mind of a politician who has flipped on a number of issues? Or a million individuals in a country of 300?
          2. Which argument is easier to make? Support a genocide? Or dont support a genocide?
          3. You should vote? Or you should vote for my particular candidate?

          Notice how you’ve decided to pick the harder of literally every single option?

          Harris will flip on a dime on gaza if you stop wasting your breath defending her and switch your efforts to criticizing her. No one is asking you to vote for trump. Hell look through my history its always: ‘if you’re in deep blue voting 3rd party is a okay, if you’re purple harris is your best option, but not your only one’

          You dont need to be this worked up over harris if she loses to trump its her fault for running a terrible campaign using terrible policy positions. She had an entire year of warning over gaza and she chose to swing right on her policies, alienating a large swath of her base.

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            This is such a backward comment I don’t know where to start. Tortured logic, the fact that voting 3rd party doesn’t send the specific message you’re looking to send, or perhaps that it’s all Harris’ fault that she lost while ignoring everything about outside election interference including Stein’s ties to Russia and conservatives all in one post. Bonus points for projecting that a large death of her base cares solely about Gaza and would be willing to suffer fascism instead.

            Can’t wait until these astroturfing accounts are retired after the election.

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              Never said it sent a specific message. It sends one message: you didnt get this vote. I sent the specific message weeks ago, daily for 3 weeks to harris, and my local critters. This post is to counteract the nonsense spread about voting for the lesser evil and to give people an option to opt out of supporting harris without endangering a trump win.

              The message here for you is: jill stein doesn’t matter. Learn to focus your efforts productively. Its easier to influence one person (harris) than it is a million (people like me).

              Please reread my post in particular the 3 decisions your making atm and realize how absolutely useless your efforts will be here. Atm all you’re doing is broadcasting to everyone your okay supporting a genocidal candidate.

              Again if Harris loses thats her fault. Not mine, not yours. She chose how her campaign is run, what messages are delivered, etc.

              Also please watch this interview. Thinking these accounts are all astroturfing is going to hurt you more than me if harris loses. My state already has legal protections for all the things people are trying to use to defend Harris’ monstrous policy positions. They’re not effective arguments to vote for harris in my deep blue state.

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                “Take a look at this video, which should convince all of you that trying to convince individuals is a failing effort.”

                Do you even read what you post?

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    Haha they must be new to this, Jill Stein isn’t running for president, she is running to split the vote like they paid her to.

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      Fun fact: if jill wasnt on the ballot harris still wouldn’t have received my vote. Harris losing votes has nothing to do with jill being there. Harris’ struggles are purely her own fault, propaganda from Russia only works if there is a edge to grab, the only reason there is an edge to grab is because harris has decided to treat arab Americans absolutely horribly this entire campaign.

      Learn to focus your energy properly: on changing Harris’ mind not the voters for whom preventing a genocide is important. Trust me it’ll be easier.

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          Oh! Oh I’ve seen this one in another thread!

          “I wouldn’t vote for either of them.”

          That’s not an option in this exercise, you have to pick one or the other.

          “I don’t see why I’d have to choose. I pick neither.”

          Again, that wasn’t the question. Harris or Trump are the only acceptable answers. If you have to choose one, which would it be?

          That’s how the exchange generally went. It shone a really nice spotlight on the ridiculous mindset at play.

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      Of course they know that. They’re saying this to make exactly this point. While the average US voter will be entirely unaware of and oblivious to what some pinkos from cheese eating surrender monkey land say, potential green voters just might take notice.

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    Good. I was apart of the Green Party, I left when I learned they were planning of running a candidate this year, when internally, we were floating around the idea of NOT running a candidate.

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      That’s interesting insider info. Was the reason for not fielding a candidate because of this particular issue (splitting the vote)?

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          Why would you assume I just believe them outright? I just said it was interesting and asked a follow up question to get more info.

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        Can’t say exactly, it was just floated around, I’m guessing it was for that specific reason, but that was around the time I was thinking of leaving for other reasons, they are VERY unorganized as a party and it really, really bothered me. The way smaller Transhumanist Party seems more organized than the Green Party.

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          Probably because running a presidential candidate is a waste of money unless your intent is to split the vote.

          Start local, gain influence, work your way up.

          Edit - to those downvoting, the Green Party literally has zero representation, even at the State level. And you want to jump straight to POTUS. Riiight.

          Get one state senate seat. Get one House of Representatives seat. Get some kind of representation. Then you have a bargaining chip.

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            The threat of splitting the vote is a good reason to run, if you feel like your position isn’t being taken seriously enough AND that it’s important enough that everything else is worth losing.

            The problem is that the majority of the Democrats are on board with green initiatives. The only holdup on the $10T program before was Manchin. She has now pivoted RCV, or more specifically destroying the duopoly because they are the enemy for “reasons”.

            Also, she’s said that she wouldn’t pull out even if the Dems gave her what she wanted. So it doesn’t really work as a threat either.

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              Eh, threatening to split the vote might in theory get some campaign promises, but such promises are likely to evaporate when things get down to it.

              Meanwhile if you actually hold a persistent presence in the house or senate, particularly when it’s close, you got ongoing leverage. Hell, folks like AOC, MTG, Boebert have an absurd amount of national influence for being elected by merely a singular district.

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    Isn’t it too late for it to matter? At this point, she’s on the ballots that she’s on, isn’t she?

    Especially for states like Oregon that are primarily vote by mail. I already have my ballot, and Stein withdrawing won’t keep people from voting for her

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      Yes, her name is already on the ballots, like RFK Jr is still on the ballots in many states, but the hope is her supporters will listen to her endorsement. Just because a person’s name is on the ballot doesn’t force people to vote for that person. Some people have voted already, some will continue to vote for her out of protest, some will continue to vote for her because they didn’t hear she dropped out or didn’t care. But the hope is enough people will hear that she dropped out and endorsed Harris that their votes will come through for Harris.

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        When I went to vote last week and saw RFK Jr.'s name was still on the Indiana ballot, I burst out laughing.

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        You’re assuming we voted for jill because shes jill. Which is not the case for everyone. She got my vote because of Harris’ absolutely abysmal treatment of arabs and gaza, her lack of pro labor policies, etc etc etc.

        Jill dropping out would just meant the vote went to a different non-trump candidate or left blank.

        The only way harris would have gotten my vote was if she modified her position on gaza, or another key issues like ensuring kahn was kept.

        She declined to do so, so i declined to vote for her. 🤷 But harris will be fine my state is 20+ dem.

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          That’ll teach her! Way to go - you really stuck it to that horrible excuse of a candidate.

          It’s not like she had better labor policies (or practices) than that other guy (or did she?)

          It’s not like that other guy was (allegedly) working with an (alleged) war criminal to rebuff US efforts to make a ceasefire deal (or was he?)

          And finally, it’s not like AIPAC can literally thumbs up or down damn near any politician in the US like Julius H. Fucking, Ceasar and an almost universal bloc of voters will carry out their direction. Oh, wait, they will.

          The thing that pisses me off is that yeah, maybe she’s fine in Cali or Hawaii or wherever. But there’s gonna be a fuck of a lot more death and misery in the world if fascists get control of the United States in the form of Donald Trump, and in those few states that matter (because of the fucked up electoral college) that attitude , which I perceive as smug self-righteousness, could be the deciding factor.

          That simple worldview, unburdened with the whole idea of “you can’t make change if you’re not elected” must really be comfortable.

          But you sure showed Harris.

          I’d love to expound on this thought, but I have a fussy infant daughter that needs attending. BTW, it would be really cool if she FUCKING DIDN’T have to grow up in some goddamned Handmaid’s Tale dystopia.

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            I agree it would be great if your daughter didnt grow up in such a dystopia. So tell me have you been emailing your critters to let them know to reverse course on gaza? Worker rights, (ala khan, health care etc?). Did you vote for harris in the prinary (rhetorical question obv)?

            Gaza is such a low bar, ‘dont send weapons to a country genociding’ we even have laws already on the books for this. Harris wants to claim herself as law and order she can follow the fucking law.

            Now as i said i live in 20+ state. My vote is literally wasted on harris. The best outcome we can get w/ harris is an absolute squeeker of a win. If she loses she has no one to blame but herself shes been getting told for months to reverse course on gaza. Biden has been getting told for a year. Their refusal is whats caused this.

            Now ask yourself: would you vote for harris if she reversed course in gaza? If the answer is yes, then why havent you joined us in pressuring her? All it takes is a lie to pollsters, calls to your critters, and a willingness to reduce her win ratio in deep blue states. dont worry we’re not asking you to vote 3rd party in red/purple states. Vote harris in those places if you can, if you can’t no judgement its not your fault harris ran on these policies.

            Whats more important is that we get every possible vote out down ballot. harris is secondary concern. What matters more is the house/senate. A harris win is essentially useless if we cant pass legislation. While a harris loss control of those chambers will be incredibly critical.

            You want roe v wade codified, focus on local reps and congress critters, ballot measures. You’ll have more success.

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              I completely agree with your last two paragraphs. Regarding the rest, the other person that replied stated my thoughts in much more eloquent terms than I’m able at present.

              Edit: regarding the electoral and electorate math: I noticed you didn’t touch the “Trump working the Netenyahu to block a ceasefire” (which would obliviate the need for bombs), “you can’t govern if you can’t win”, and “AIPAC” topics, but also seem to think that all of this is Harris’ fault or she has control of this.

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              Yeah so the message so far has been carte Blanche vote third party. None of the nuance you’re displaying here is evident in 99% of these 3rd party posts. They’re all “genocide BAD, vote 3rd party or you’re COMPLICIT!” so the message here isnt what you’re saying.

              Secondly, applying your logic regarding wasted effort because your state is solid blue, telling others to write their congresspeople on the issue is equally useless. Throwing the onus on them is shortsighted. The, “what have YOU done” argument doesn’t really hold water with anyone, particularly when many people reside in a solid red or blue state

              Finally, voting 3rd party sends “a” message after the election, not during, and no candidate ever looks back at the election results to ask Greenies why they didn’t vote for them. They do canvassing before and during, and quite frankly they have to walk a tightrope between courting lefties and every other single-issue voter. Imagine you’re running and you have Greenies yelling about genocide, women’s rights yelling about bodily autonomy, and LGBTQ folks yelling about equality and all three don’t give a flying fuck about the others. What would you do? Exactly what Harris is doing - courting the biggest blocs of voters.

              I’m not gonna touch on the general laziness of my compatriots, but when I went to early vote at my precinct there were a lot of people voting straight ticket, so I don’t think most people will dig through ballots to send that message. Frankly, Trump in power means nothing for down ballot votes because he still installs a fascist regime.

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    a post I made earlier:

    If Harris loses California, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Connecticut, Hawaii, Vermont, DC, or Maine-1 because of vote-splitting by Stein, it will be Harris’s fault. If you’re voting in these states, you might as well vote your heart.

    https://lemmy.world/post/21147692

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      The Green party isn’t a party worth anyone’s heart. It’s all a big grift funded by conservatives that only puts any effort into the scammy presidential run. I don’t want more of that, I want progressives that challenge moderate Democrats in safe seats to give people a real option to move left.

      I’m in Hawaii, and we’re solid blue but last election the Greens had a whole of 2 candidates across the entire state. Some random party I’d never heard of had more candidates on the ballot. My state rep won with something like 2000 votes, no Green challenger in sight. If the Greens were a real party they’d jump on that opportunity. A little sweat and door knocking can pull off 2000 votes. Hell, we have Ed fucking Case in Congress. I’d kill to vote against him, but my only other option is a MAGA conspiracy theorist.

      The GPUSA isn’t a real party.

      • @jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        See this is your issue assuming we give a shit about jill or the green party. 😂

        We dont. it was just a convenient box to tick because harris’ campaign tried to remove her from the ballot, and fed their bullhorns the line about splitting the ticket. The vote would still have been cast for a different third party candidate unless Harris’ position was corrected. It wasnt so the box gets ticked away.

        Learn to properly focus your political energy: its much easier to get harris to flip than getting a million voters who have morals to flip.

        So unless you want what is happening in gaza: learn to lie to your politicians.

        1. Tell them you’ll vote third party over x.
        2. Follow through if you’re in a deep blue state.
        3. Hedge your bet by voting Democrats down ballot.
        4. Always lie to pollsters about your intent for any given candidate. The less reliable polls are the better. Means your letters to your politicians are more important.