• @ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
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      101 month ago

      The poster ended the question with “Stein,” so if you’re not Jill Stein, I don’t think it was directed at you.

      • Socialist BerserkerOP
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        21 month ago

        Fair point. But I don’t understand it in that context because he says “you’re a Russian stooge that got left behind for a more annoying Russian stooge”

        So if he were referring to Stein, who is the “more annoying Russian stooge”?

          • Socialist BerserkerOP
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            OH!!! Yeah, ok, I can see it that way now. I feel silly for not noticing. I’ll delete my original comment!

          • Socialist BerserkerOP
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            11 month ago

            To copy the text of someone else in this thread who explained it better than I can: All this suggests is that the Russians tried to divert left leaning voters away from Clinton by boosting Stein’s candidacy. There is zero evidence there that Stein was contacted by Russia or even aware of the way in which her campaign was being hijacked.

      • Socialist BerserkerOP
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        21 month ago

        Hmmm, maybe, but I don’t understand it in that context because he says “you’re a Russian stooge that got left behind for a more annoying Russian stooge”

        So if he were referring to Stein, who is the “more annoying Russian stooge”?

        • FuglyDuck
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          71 month ago

          Trump gift-wrapped the Republican Party for Putin, and when that happened, the Russian influence campaign stopped support for the Green Party (and stein, specifically) because they were just less useful.

      • Socialist BerserkerOP
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        11 month ago

        All this suggests is that the Russians tried to divert left leaning voters away from Clinton by boosting Stein’s candidacy. There is zero evidence there that Stein was contacted by Russia or even aware of the way in which her campaign was being hijacked.

        And I disagree. All this suggests is that the Russians tried to divert left leaning voters away from Clinton by boosting Stein’s candidacy. There is zero evidence there that Stein was contacted by Russia or even aware of the way in which her campaign was being hijacked.