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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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[-] SarcasticMan@lemmy.world 277 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 100 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] SarcasticMan@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

If they haven't already, they won't.

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[-] rusticus@lemm.ee 132 points 1 month ago

Jill Stein is funded by Russia. Every multicellular organism knows this by now.

[-] vanontom@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] Intergalactic@lemmy.world 90 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Intergalactic@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Wrench@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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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[-] iMastari@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Of course she won’t. She is Putin’s puppet.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago

I never get tired of showing this photo.

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[-] aaaa@lemmy.world 77 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

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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[-] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 month ago

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

Get

Republicans

Elected

Every

November

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago

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?

[-] leadore@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

Sheesh, you're a bit late, folks. Besides, Stein is in the race specifically for the purpose of helping Trump win, so she wouldn't listen to them anyway.

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[-] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

Response from Jill: Can you outbid Putin?

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

Stein should shove off to fucking Moscow.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 29 points 1 month ago

"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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[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Too late. Ballots printed.

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[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

lolbruh. she takes her orders from putin.

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