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[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 1 points 13 hours ago

Always take into account that they could be russian bots or propagandists. There's the "Social Design Agency" of russia and I think they're active on all platforms. I've seen posts rooting for Jill Stein on X, Mastodon, Reddit and here.

I'm from Germany and can't get into my head that anyone true US citizen in the current situation and having the electoral system the US has, would vote the greens there.

Let me quote from this wikipedia article

"Duverger presents the example of an election in which 100,000 moderate voters and 80,000 radical voters are to vote for candidates for a single seat or office. If two moderate parties ran candidates and one radical candidate ran (and every voter voted), the radical candidate would tend to win unless one of the moderate candidates gathered fewer than 20,000 votes."

Jill Stein and 3rd party voters had probably cost Clinton the election in 2016. 3rd party voter turnout was 6% in 2016 and 2% in 2020:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-bidens-2020-victory/

The last straws should be that Jill Stein has investments in the fossil fuel and tobacco industry, met with Putin and was recently endorsed by a leading figure of the KKK, David Duke:

https://youtu.be/H0GFCPsXusI