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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 116 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Trump has offered praise for West, calling him “one of my favorite candidates.” Another is Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Trump favors both for the same reason. “I like her very much. You know why? She takes 100% from them. He takes 100%.”

waiting until the usual lemmy suspects show up to be like "iM vOtInG tHiRd PaRtY tHeY aReNt SpOiLeR cAnDiDaTes" my guy the republicans have literally said out loud that they are supporting these spoiler candidates as spoilers, if you're voting for them, you are voting for trump.

The "socialist" and "Green party" posters who somehow are shocked, shocked you would call them pro-Trump astroturf accounts, when every action they take coincidentally has the effect of helping Trump.

The real giveaway is their refusal to equally assess left and right-wing threats. When it comes to voting for a democrat, any imperfection is an absolute justification for voting third party. When someone points out Trump will get into office because of it and what that means to Gaza, green policies, etc, they gish gallop and strawman until the conversation is fully derailed.

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Or they'll be incredibly condescending towards you, with some smug sense of superiority and self-righteousness.

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