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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (22 children)

Kamala Harris can win over all of those Jill Stein voters with a single sentence.

Stupid Jill Stein's entire campaign is based on the premise that Democrats would keep a genocide going for an entire year into election season.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Aint nobody voting for Jill Stein lmao

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

jesus christ this thread is a fucking nightmare bro

i feel like i've done three pounds of ketamine just scrolling through these comments.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

guys it's not that hard, all we have to do is to not vote for still jein.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

... there were people voting for stein?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

I don't understand why it is taken for granted that if Stein wasn't a candidate the people who vote for her would be voting for the Democrats instead. Just as likely they would not vote at all or vote for some other protest candidate.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 days ago (20 children)

Because a vote abstention is a vote for the person in the lead. If Harris is in the lead, then every single American who abstains from voting is essentially helping her win, but the same is true if Trump is in the lead. Convincing Green voters that it makes more sense in a FPTP system to vote Democrat as its the closest party to their preferred ideology is a statistically productive activity.

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