I have never heard of Jill Stein until just a few months ago when I saw some article about her on the Lemmy homepage. Then I saw more and more articles about her. However, I don’t really know why the media is paying so much attention to her. She is just a third party candidate, right? There are other third party candidates that aren’t constantly popping up in the news. So why Jill Stein? I hear its something to do with Russia and a general sense of her goal being to take votes away from Kamala.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Oh fuck.

    Trump won PA by half a percent.

    Stein got .8% of the votes.

    Stein, the DNC, and 50 thousand people just like me, literally handed him the presidency.

    I’m SO sorry, everybody.

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      Unfortunately, with FPTP and the electoral college, voting for a third party candidate for president is voting in favor of the major party candidate who you like the least.

      This isn’t fair, it’s fact. It should be different, but it isn’t. NPVIC and/or RCV are the way out, and voting third party in this election makes those farther away, or wholly unreachable.

    • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      You can make up for it by convincing all your friends to vote in this election. Help them make a plan, check voter registration, and look up where/how to vote

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      You didn’t hand Trump the presidency. The Dems did by not trying to gain your vote.

      Never blame yourself for the flaws of representative “democracy”.