• TheSilentNickel@feddit.org
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    12 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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      5 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.