Ha! I forgot about that dude! He was in the news a lot back in they day!

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.

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

The sad thing is, that Democrats deny their role in the failure

Yes!!!

I get why people were saying not to talk about them during the election

But the Dems lost by such a large majority that even if every single third-party voter had voted for Harris, she would still have lost to Trump. So censoring us then wasn’t any better than censoring us now.

Non-voters cost the election, not third-party voters. People need to fucking stand up and stop sucking the Democrat Party teets. They don’t care about you any more than the Republican Party cares for you.

If everyone who is bitching about the Dem party threw their support behind a third party, then the Dems would finally realize that they need to change their ways.

Until then, Dems are just gonna keep losing.

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

Yep! Lemmy loves to complain about the Democratic party, but as soon as ya mention third-party, you’re banned from everywhere for being a troll. Or Lemmy’s other fav insults: Nazi and Fascist. They’ll even say we’re paid to talk about third parties.

At this point, Lemmy is getting what they deserve. They’ll lost next presidential election to if they don’t wake the fuck up. :)