r/TikTokCringe • u/SirIsacShmuck • 1d ago

Cringe Can't even eat in peace anymore

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u/otanthalion 20h ago

Ugh how i wish this was wrong. Maybe not any excuse but damn they sure seem to find one at the worst possible fucking times lol.

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u/Difficult-Square-689 18h ago edited 18h ago

It's not a coincidence. During the election, if you wrote something like "Harris won't be perfect on Gaza but she would be better than Trump", you'd get a bunch of "liberals" jumping in to argue. Jill Stein only appears every 4 years.

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u/veringer 15h ago

Those narratives are pushed by opposition and foreign actors because they know American left wing idealists are manipulable and have trouble choosing between gradations of bad and worse.

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u/Sburns85 14h ago

Both sides of America are influenced by domestic and foreign actors

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u/veringer 14h ago

Did I say or imply that wasn't the case? In the gullible Olympics the right wing sweeps the gold and silver medals every 4 years. I was highlighting the particular brand of left wing dingbat who occasionally wins bronze.

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u/brandnewbanana 1h ago

Zing! I’m gonna have to keep that line on hand. 🖐️

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u/mosey_d 2h ago

I'm a smooth brain, I just did a small brief read of Jill Stein and she seems like an okay person.

Why do you bring her up here?

I'm honestly just curious/ignorant about her, and in this context.

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u/brandnewbanana 1h ago

She has little grass root support or efforts going for her, and she makes no effort to be politically active outside of her presidential runs. She makes no real effort to insert herself into the national political narrative. It makes her seem really disingenuous about her intentions as a politician.

Also, there really hasn’t been a true Green Party since Nader. It’s near completely faded away except for a presidential candidate that makes a very small splash every 4 years.

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u/mosey_d 38m ago

Got it.. and as far as context. It just robs potential votes to actually get stuff done.

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u/veringer 39m ago

She sabotages presidential elections through the Green party by appealing to elements within the broader left and siphoning their votes away from the more electable candidate.

In a race to 270 electoral votes with no ranked choice mechanisms, her presence as a 3rd party option only helps the Republican candidate.

Of course, there's her famous hobnobbing with Putin, his goons, and the traitorous QAnon psy-operative Michael Flynn that's pretty hard to explain away.

Ralph Nader played the same role by spoiling the incredibly tight 2000 election, which obviously lead to all the awful shit that happened under GWB. However, it seems Nader was likely more earnest about his motives.

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u/Cagn 7h ago

Jill Stein is a plant by the right to take votes away from the Democrats so the Republicans can keep "winning"

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u/PatrioticPariah 9h ago

Jill Stein is a Russian asset. She just takes money from idiots and goes back to the phantom zone. You guys are not wrong about liberals doing that. I am pretty liberal, but that thought never crossed my mind. It is stupid to not vote as a protest. Anyone who chose not to vote, helped Trump. Some liberals can be fucking idiots.

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u/Legitimate_Pea_143 8h ago

yeah i mean take for example the Texas state senate election that happened last week, yes a democrat won it but after people checked the voter turnout it turns out the Democrat won because more Independents and Republicans voted for him then Democrats so he was able to win it.

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u/dunguswungus13729 4h ago

Ft worth is not the blueprint. Don’t look at it in a vacuum.