Democratic group files FEC complaint alleging GOP operatives illegally boosted Jill Stein in New Hampshire - The Boston Globe
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The Globe reported last month that Jefferson Thomas, a longtime GOP operative who heads a firm called the Synapse Group, had submitted signatures for Stein in several New Hampshire municipalities.
      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
        28·
        2 months ago

        I’m just admiring your commitment to your work. Not everyone has the work ethic to keep this up for two months straight.

        • Socialist Mormon Satanist@lemmy.worldOP
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          2 months ago

          This is an anti-Stein article though, so what would that have to do with me getting paid in rubles?

          Are you implying that the Democratic Party is under control of the russians?!

          • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
            23·
            2 months ago

            At face value, I’d agree; for a second I even thought this was a redemption arc, but then I realized you just put this here to get her name additional visibility since your pro-Stein articles otherwise get drowned out with downvotes here. “Bad publicity is better than no publicity”.

            • Socialist Mormon Satanist@lemmy.worldOP
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              2 months ago

              Ohhhh, ok, so now any anti-Stein articles I post are a concentrated effort for me to be pro-Stein because her name is mentioned. Even tho it’s negative article for her AND I’m not voting for her.

              But somehow that means I am still getting paid in Russian money. Even for posting negative Stein/pro-democrat articles, right? So the russians pay people for pro-democrat articles, because…um…because…well heck, they just do.

              That’s the theory you are working on? Ok, so what about the pro-Harris articles I post that don’t mention Jill Stein. How does that work with your going theory here?

              And are all the other posters that have posted anti-Stein articles and comments getting paid as well? Oh wow, that’s gonna open a can of worms, friend…

              And how would there be a “redemption arc”? I’m not voting for Stein. I like her, but I’m not voting for her. I’m still voting third party though, just not hers.

              I’ve posted articles that are critical of Trump, Stein, and Harris, as well as articles praising each of them.

              Do I get paid per article, or only the articles that just mention Jill Stein (even in a negative sense–according to you)? Or how does that even work when I post so many conflicting perspectives?!

              I also created and mod a political news community where people have posted articles praising Harris, criticizing Stein, and trashing me.

              https://lemmy.world/c/politicsunfiltered

              Do I get paid for all the conflicting perspectives in that sub too? Or just this one?

              • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
                27·
                2 months ago

                Come on, Monk. Everyone here is familiar with your long-winded Gish gallop comments at this point. I know Stein is doing the same song and dance she did in 2016, but that doesn’t mean you can’t innovate either.

                • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
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                  2 months ago

                  He even has a transracial sub. Legitimately just for posting inflammatory shit to conflate with the trans movement. Same shit as trying to list pedos under the lgbtq+ movement.

                  This boy is hot garbage.

                • Socialist Mormon Satanist@lemmy.worldOP
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                  2 months ago

                  So I still wanna know, do the other posters that post anti-Stein articles and posts, get paid? I mean, YOU are anti-Stein, so does that mean you are getting paid in russian money too? Now you are making me wonder about your motivations. Can you clarify?

                  I’m not even voting for her, but your talk about russian money, even with anti-Stein articles is making me wonder about you. Because I gave you pretty big list explaining stuff, and all you can do is mention Stein again. Hmmmm… Curious…

  • abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.usEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The complaint from End Citizens United alleges, though, that the Stein campaign must have known about the effort by Republican groups.

    Alas, this is from someone who doesn’t know how many House Reps there are. And from a party that recently has gotten tripped up over requirements to get nominated.

    I … don’t think we can make any assumptions here on what the Greens must have known or what their intelligence level is.

    If Stein had paid Synapse to collect signatures, the campaign would be required to disclose the help on her campaign finance reports.

    Isn’t this the point though? The GOP is interfering by helping the Greens, including paying for this themselves instead of having the Greens pay?

    “There is no conceivable way IAG and Synapse could have collected, organized, and submitted 4,720 nominating petitions securing the Stein Campaign’s space on the ballot without inside information from the Stein Campaign” about how many signatures it needed and from which parts of the state, the complaint said.

    Counterargument - the Greens are leaky like a sieve and this info leaked out, and the GOP operatives got ahold of it that way and went ahead. Goes to my point above - incompetence can really explain everything, and sadly the current Greens seem to have that in abundance.

    Stein appears to have minimal support from New Hampshire voters

    The silver lining - even if Stein wins the lawsuit she’ll fail to take the election away from Harris in New Hampshire.