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Former KKK leader David Duke endorses Jill Stein (www.nbcnews.com)

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[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Stein's campaign says it wants nothing to do with Duke, the former American Nazi Party member

Stein’s campaign manager, Jason Call, disavowed the endorsement and called Duke "trash."

That is how it is done. Unlike Harris. Who went on a parade with Liz Cheney, and praised Dick Cheney for his work after they endorsed her.

[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 13 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The funniest part about this is I had no idea David Duke was alive. He was the main villain of BlackKKlansman. Imagine living to see yourself get written as the villain of a hit movie.

Also, mandatory fuck David Duke and Jill Stein.

[-] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 20 points 9 hours ago

If you think this reflects badly on stein ask yourself 2 questions, did he endorse her because she's also a white supremacist? Did she accept the endorsement?

The answer to the first is probably no since stein is a Jewish women so I don't think she'd get along well with all the other white supremacists who think she's sub-human. The reason he endorsed her was because she's the only one who would end the war in Gaza and fight the "Jewish lobby". If your a Zionist and believe that any action against Israel is anti-Semitic then yeah stein and Duke are the same. If you live outside that delusional world then you'd recognize dukes dislike for Israel and steins, (and most of the worlds) dislike for Israel come from two completely different values systems and world views.

The answer to the second is easier, No, her campaign rejected it and called him trash as soon as they heard about it.

So does this actually reflect badly on stein, or is this just the ravings of an insane person who's trying to elect a Jewish woman to take out his imagined grand Jewish conspiracy? Critique stein if you want but this is nothing.

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 hours ago

For real. If David Duke endorsed Harris, democrats would be crowing about it and saying they'll take all the help they can get (see all the recent neocon ghoul endorsements).

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 17 points 9 hours ago

Didn't Richard Spencer endorse Biden in a game of 64D chess as a 5000 IQ play?

....

Still either way, Jill's an Ableist Transphobe on Putin's payroll and even if she wasn't, she cannot win a single state under the current Electoral College so she could be literally the second coming of Christ and it wouldn't matter.

[-] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 136 points 13 hours ago

Hmm.. I wonder why a certain user who’s been posting non-stop about third-party candidates for the entire lifespan of their account chose to ignore this particular article. One would assume it’s important for the voting public to know about this, no?

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Here, I'll channel my energy into a representative comment so you don't feel left out.

"I'm not voting for her. You're free to vote for whoever you want."

"I didn't write the article."

[-] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 45 points 12 hours ago

You forgot to call me “friend” and channel punchable face energy with one of these 🤗 but I’ll give you an A for effort.

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[-] kevindqc@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago

Spot on

https://lemmy.world/comment/12909326

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 22 points 12 hours ago

Who are you referring to? I'm debating some "Harris needs to earn my vote. So it's her fault if Trump wins." idiots right now.

[-] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 25 points 11 hours ago

Unfortunately if I name this person there’s a good likelihood this discussion gets removed since the rules prohibit calling out bad faith actors, even the painstakingly obvious ones. So I’ll leave you with this: you needn’t look far to find that which you seek.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 21 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

It's @UniversalMonk@lemmy.world. It's always @UniversalMonk@lemmy.world, and it's so unbearably obvious that they should've been banned long, long ago because all they do is pollute this community with Russian propaganda. I don't honestly care at this point if they are or are not literally paid (their post/comment frequency is staggering if they aren't); it's nevertheless the effect they have. This community is objectively a worse place with them here.

Edit: Again, I emphasize without engaging with them and giving them carte blanche to spam even more: every single word that comes out of their mouth is dripping with disingenuity.

[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

My life got much better after I blocked that account a few weeks ago

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[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 20 points 13 hours ago

I don’t know about you, but I’m saving this post for future citations.

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[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago

Sup Universalmonk where u at?

[-] Soup@lemmy.cafe 11 points 9 hours ago

Please don’t summon them.

[-] LifeGivesYouLemmys@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 hours ago

They're just at their Latter Day Satanic Trump rally. Give em time

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago

Ok, that's pretty funny. An endorsement shouldn't be taken too seriously (given a certain string of endorsements I don't like for Harris) but it's still really funny. Fuck Jill Stein.

[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 94 points 14 hours ago

I can't laugh heard enough about this.

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[-] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

No more burnin no more hangin. From now on we will compost the bodies. #GreenHoods

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 17 points 10 hours ago

Aaaaand there ya go. This is all you need to know about Jill Stein right? Because if Harris is a conservative because of Cheney’s endorsement….

Or are the rules different?

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 13 points 10 hours ago

Stein's campaign says it wants nothing to do with Duke, the former American Nazi Party member.

It's one thing to be endorsed by an undesirable party, it's another to accept it or even invite them to campaign with you.

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

It’s one thing to be the type of person that a racist piece of shit would endorse, and another to be the type of person that a person who hates racist pieces of shit would endorse.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 7 points 9 hours ago

Harris has her own share of problematic endorsements (Cheney, Gonzalez,...). Sure, they're not explicitly racist, 'just' war criminals, but she accepted them and is actually bragging about getting them.

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Right. Because Harris needs the support to keep a criminally charged rapist from being a dictator for a day and calling the military against his own people. Having the support of a Republican in this environment is a pretty big deal. That is reaching FAR across the aisle in an almost unheard of show of support- and it sends a message of solidarity against a fascist.

Having a dirt bag irrelevant racist support a sketchy spoiler candidate?

Well, that’s just damn easy to “deny,” isn’t it? I mean… there’s no downside. And it sure looks good to the press to turn him down, doesn’t it? But then again, it doesn’t look good to have him up her ass to begin with…

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 1 points 6 hours ago

Why can't she reach far to the left to get their support instead? If potential Jill Stein voters can lose her the election, she could see what those people care about and reach out to them?

They would've probably been fine with a stop on sending offensive weapons while keeping iron dome stocked or something like that.

Instead they're trying to find the mythical voter that gives a shit about what Dick Cheney thinks.

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Because sadly, FAR more people give a shit about what Cheney says than there are those that give a shit about what Stein says. And not only that, but I’d wager that no matter what she does- a large percentage of the far left and socialists aren’t going to vote for Harris anyway. Even if Stein endorsed her. (Remember a guy named Bernie back in 2016? Yeah. A lot of the “Bros” voted for Trump to spite the DNC)

Their minds are made up and are locked in every bit as tight as their folded arms are.

And I’d wager that she is ACUTELY aware of this. Between her, and all of her advisers- do you think there is no one that understands what she must do to get the votes she needs? Do you seriously think she hasn’t thought of courting the far left vote? She’s not an idiot.

She knows you exist.

And she knows you have a track record of not showing up regardless. Over 100,000,000 people didn’t vote in 2016. And we got trump- with warning signs of what he would do.

We don’t have warning signs now. We know EXACTLY what he will do, and you are all holding your vote hostage over shit you didn’t even care about a year ago.

So I’m sorry, but your demands are going to fall on willfully deaf ears. The far left vote is not something they are going to risk losing an election over. And historically, candidates that lean too far left…

Lose.

And now, at this point, I’m going to say that we’re far too late in the game for me to care about how you feel about this. This is what it is. This is where we are. You can help us keep America breathing by voting for the one person that has a chance to win, or you can pull the plug because of a single-issue that most of you don’t even really understand.

Either way. Someone is getting elected. Whether you like it or not- with or without your help.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

So if you think you can win without trying to court their votes, why the vitriol?

Also: https://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/election_scorecard/2007/10/sour_grapes.html 20% of Clinton supporters ended up voting for McCain, the number for Sanders voters is 10%. Sanders did everything to make sure Clinton won, and he still got blamed for her terrible campaign losing.

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It’s not vitriol. It’s ridicule.

And about your link there,

It didn’t account for the amount of people (1,000,000) that didn’t vote at all- IE: protest votes.
It didn’t account for Irrelevant Stein votes.

And:

1 in 10 Bernie Bros voted for Trump.

The Bros helped trump

So just stop it already. It’s too late to bother with this. If you’re not voting, that’s your right. But please stand aside and stop interfering with those that are.

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[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 hours ago

Jill rejected the endorsement, unlike Harris

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Whatever you say…. Commie.

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 6 points 10 hours ago

I was about to say that that isnt really much of an insult these days, given that its not really much different from insulting a republican by calling them "conservative" in some shortened manner and the cold war ended awhile go, but then I saw the username of the person you were replying to.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Duke, a proudly antisemitic white supremacist, endorsed Trump in 2016 and 2020, but on his radio show yesterday, he slammed Trump's "subservience to Israel and to the Jewish lobby" and said only Stein would stand up to Israel and its "genocide" against Palestinians.

Weird… sounds like a lot of “leftists” on lemmy…

[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 54 points 14 hours ago

He is not just any wizard. He is grand.

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[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 34 points 13 hours ago

Hahahaha. Of course he did.

Can we all finally agree that supportingJill Stein is being the 11th person at the table?

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

Centrists haven't been this happy about an endorsement since Cheney-senpai noticed them.

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