Originally published at: Former Klan leader David Duke endorses Jill Stein - Boing Boing
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I’m colorblind, but even I can see how this particular green has turned white.
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Here’s a simple proposition for waverers and those rightfully disgusted by Biden’s Gaza policy
That’s still too complex for those who don’t understand the duopoly system we’re stuck with or who see no difference between the Dems and the GOP. Anyone who votes for Stein is as much of a write-off as the MAGAts.
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If I was a member of the American Green Party, I’d be furious. Attending state functions with Putin? Not immediately and forcefully rejecting the endorsement of David Duke? Threatening to put Donald Trump in power? Jill Stein might be speedrunning the Crunchy to Alt-Right Pipeline, but I’d guess most Greens aren’t.
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I would hope so, but 96.5% of their convention delegates nominated her. There are less than 200 of them in a party of 244k, so the question is how democratic is the internal party structure?
Whatever the answer, those progressive Greens who are rightly horrified by her on-going behaviour can now only protest it by not voting or (if they have a lick of sense) by voting for Harris.
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She did reject the endorsement.
Stein’s campaign manager, Jason Call, disavowed the endorsement and called Duke “trash.”
“We had no idea about this and are very, very not interested in David Duke’s endorsement,” Call told NBC News.
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There is a recently ex- Seattle city councilperson, Kshama Sawant. She’s famous for controversial support of the far left (and that’s saying something in Seattle). Essentially falling somewhere between socialism and communism, wanting to nationalize Amazon for example. She’s now decidedly in the media’s face about support for Stein and decidedly against Harris. Adds to my gormless opinion that the socialists’ worst enemy is themselves. -sigh-
At Seattle rally, Kshama Sawant says Harris deserves to lose ‘1,000 times’
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant rallied Tuesday in Seattle, amid Democratic fears that even a small vote for Stein could be enough to tip the election to Donald Trump. Sawant gave a blistering speech, assailing the two-party system, but focusing her ire on the Democratic Party and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Posted on AllSides October 15th, 2024
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So…she didn’t reject the endorsement. Her campaign manager did. If it didn’t come out of her mouth, I don’t really count it. If Duke had endorsed Harris, I can guarantee you the first person to reject that endorsement forcefully would be Harris, with her own words. She wouldn’t be using a spokesperson to do that. These are the kinds of games Stein has been playing her entire political career.
Which is funny because Stein is Jewish. She’s not a Zionist, but she is Jewish.
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She did herself, on Xitter. I saw it but I’d have to hunt for it.
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Dang, that’s really disappointing. She used to be awesome. 
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Does she run her social media account? A lot of these people don’t. They have their staff run their social media. Again, unless I hear it coming out of her mouth, I’m not counting it.
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yeah. being a feckless (admittedly more moderate) socialist m’self, i had some hopes for her.
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I’d call it more of a marathon. She’s been at this for a while. During the 2016 campaign she said “the answer to neofascism is stopping neoliberalism. Putting another Clinton in the White House will fan the flames of this right-wing extremism. We have known that for a long time, ever since Nazi Germany.”
She also said in another interview in 2016 that “Hillary has the potential to do a whole lot more damage, get us into more wars, faster to pass her fracking disastrous climate program, much more easily than Donald Trump could do his.”
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tmurps people probably said ixnay on the public endorsements, so he went next best by picking a white woman over a black one.
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Even Reagan had the sense to personally and vocally repudiate those kinds of endorsements and Reagan was a racist fascist-adjacent asshole.
This isn’t the kind of thing you wave away with a campaign statement and a tweet.
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If a Nazi sincerely endorsed me for office, I’d not only reject it but also seriously re-consider the life choices that led me to that turn.
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Here’s a simple proposition for waverers: if your vote puts her over the line, she owes you and she can use you to fight the right.
Sure, I definitely think that the candidate hugging Dick Cheney is going to “fight the right”. This time we can pull the Democratic president to the left after the election for sure.
Convince and justify your vote however you have to, but retire this bullshit line once and for all.
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There’s some serious overlap in the US greens and the TERFs, and both of them need to have a good long look in the mirror and wonder why people who want to burn jews in ovens find their views to be ideal (those few that aren’t actually Nazis anyhow).
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Well that’s not exactly a fair characterization of what happened, is it?
If Doctor Doom makes a public statement that he’d rather let the Fantastic Four stop Galactus than watch the world be consumed, it doesn’t follow that Reed Richards has sold out to Latveria.
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I know it’s weird that it’s come to this, but wide swaths of the population will be persecuted if Trump wins. And I mean literal persecution without any hyperbole. A not insignificant number of people in marginalized communities will die as a direct result. The removal of any and all measures to curtail or at least mitigate climate change will have long lasting effects for all of humanity for generations.
This isn’t even about fighting the right at this point. This is a matter of life or death for a rather large number of people. Quite possibly including people whom you know and care about.
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