• TheSilentNickel@feddit.org
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    12 hours ago

    When have people (outside isolated trolls) accused 3rd-party advocates of being shills?

    Take a look at some older posts from before the election. It was a fucking witchhunt on third-party advocates. Every single one was accused of being a paid russian shill. Every. Single. One. lol

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      10 hours ago

      When I am accused of such things, I tend to doxx myself as Yevgeny Prigozhin. Claiming to be a primary source within Wagner has its uses.

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        I’m not even sure if you’re joking or not, but you do know he’s dead, right?

        Edit: Nvm, you’re joking.

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          9 hours ago

          Of course. It is a closely guarded Russian secret that I escaped by parachute. The mighty Putin went through great effort to fake my death.

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      5 hours ago

      some older posts

      Do you have some examples? Like I said, all I experienced was disingenuous comments.

      EDIT: My bad, I thought we were talking about people (plural) advocating against 3rd-party candidates in general. I still haven’t seen that. But yeah, Jill Stein is sus as fuck. You’re allowed to think otherwise, but pointing that out doesn’t make someone a shill.

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        11 hours ago

        Just type in “Jill Stein,” or “Green Party” in the search function, and pick c/politics from the months before November. That’ll be enough, because in those threads, even talks of other third parties, were madly downvoted and people were banned left and right. lol

        That’s also why the other poster commented on it. Even in this very thread you see a lot of people bitching about third parties. But it’s way more acceptable to talk about it now than it was then. It was fucking crazytown here before the election! lmao

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          4 hours ago

          So… Still no sources. Not one…

          EDIT: If you don’t think Jill Stein is a Russian asset after reading all the credible allegations, I don’t know what to tell you. Of course you’re allowed your opinion, but that’s still not evidence of people saying 3rd-party candidates in general are bad.

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            10 hours ago

            What? Did you even do that?

            https://feddit.org/post/2903837

            https://feddit.org/post/3522938

            https://feddit.org/post/3041220

            And that’s just a light start. Those comments were tame. The closer it got to the election, the more rabid people got if they found out u were voting third party.

            I know dude, I was there. Back then, term “Russian shill” was used as much as “Nazi” and “Fascist” is now. Even the Dems here will probably admit things were heated. It was crazy how much mistrust and accusations where flying around. Russian shills, propaganda, bots, lots of people were accusing lots of people being those things.

            Seriously, just look around at the threads in those time periods, besides the ones I posted. It was fucking crazy. You can even ask the mods here. They even mentioned how difficult it was modding things.

            They even locked several posts down because the comments were getting too crazy.