[Video] AOC claims Jill Stein is predatory because "her party hasn't grown enough" in Instagram reel.

AOC is completely correct. If you only show up every four years to run for an office you haven't done the work to win, your purpose is to act as a spoiler candidate. Jill Stein is an unserious person who doesn't care about winning.

There's nothing wrong with third-parties, but if you're just running for offices you literally won't win, you're a joke. Greens can run and win in down-ballot elections, but winning the presidency is a farcical idea until they actually put in the work to win in more local races.

Green Party candidates got caught forging signatures of constituents to have their candidates added on local ballots. I actually reported several instances of this happening last election and it resulted in several of their candidates being investigated and disqualified. These idiots were paying their low level staffers minimum wage to knock on doors for signatures and when they didn't meet their quota, they just straight up forged signatures of constituents.

The evidence was so damning, too. Their candidates were specifically focused on areas where they could siphon off a Democrat win, but not areas where they could siphon off a Republican win. The signatures were analyzed by pros who determined that they were fraudulent and all exhibited the same slant/pattern, and this happened for several candidates. Not to mention Jill Stein's sketchy ass relationship with Vladimir Putin and senior level Trump staffers like Michael Flynn. But yeah, let's downplay why Jill Stein inexplicably was invited to a gala in Moscow by Putin...

Going back to my initial rant... Yeah, the Green Party is sketchy as fuck and have been caught red-handed trying to fuck up local elections. Even their candidates' YouTube channels sometimes use the same staffers posing as regular people, it's like the most embarrassing attempt at looking serious. On reddit and YouTube, they've got like 3 staffers who monitor posts/video comments like hawks and they astroturf like cra-zy when a Green candidate is getting shit on.
- Do you have any sources for these incidents? Those are very serious crimes and should be pretty easy to produce sources for. A quick internet search on my end only yielded instances of Republicans (no surprise there) forging signatures/ballots.
- I second the call for sources, that is very interesting.
Would an unserious person meet up with Putin to kiss his ass tho??
- Democrats tried to incriminate her for three years on fake "muh poootin" charges and found nothing. But don't let that get in the way of your agenda.

A smarter advocate for Stein might've chosen to argue her salient points in defense of AOC's statement, but you chose to whinge? Mid.

AOC is a joke who used all her weight to keep Genocide Joe, the worst candidate possible, in the running. Even when the establishment wanted him out. She is nothing but a more subtle version of John Fetterman. A progressive cosplayer who falls in line with leadership when she gets commanded to.

Her now firing shots at the only people opposing Genocide comes to no surprise. No bar is too low for AOC.
- Oof. The bar was so low, but you brought a shovel? Bold move. 😶
- AOC is a joke who used all her weight to keep Genocide Joe, the worst candidate possible
  
  IMAX level.

How would a Democrat/Republican plant who was purposely trying to sabotage the Greens and prevent them from gaining relevance act differently from Jill Stein?

They wouldn't.

Democrats just try every dirty trick in the book to sabotage the Greens, nothing going on here.

Democrats try to block Green Party from presidential ballot in Wisconsin, citing legal issues
- That doesn't address my point. If the Greens were a serious party there would be a large movement to boot Stein for how ineffectual she's been as a leader.
  
  Say what you will about Democrats and Biden, but they are leagues ahead of Greens and Stein in this regard.
- WI state law requires that state officers like members of legislature, judges, or even candidates for the leg, be the person/people that nominates electors. The Green Party even had ample time to mount a write-in campaign for a legislative candidate for the primary that was held a couple of weeks ago, and they didn't. Dems filed a complaint the day after the primary because that's the soonest they could do it.
  
  I don't understand how the Green Party demands to be taken seriously but then routinely breaks incredible simple to understand rules.
  
  It's stuff like this that really annoys me about Green Party. Like really, where in WI state law does it says a party doesn't require a state officer to nominate electors? Nowhere, because it says the complete polar opposite of that and the Green Party is either being ignorant or wilfully ignorant. Personally, I don't understand how one can look at this situation and call the Dem's complaint a "dirty trick in the book of sabotage".

Honestly, I'm not sure about predatory, but in everything else she says she has a point...

A party which didn't grow last election doesn't deserve to exist? Take off the AOC rose-colored glasses for a second. What she's saying is extremely anti-democratic and makes no sense.

It's obvious the only reason AOC is firing shots at Jill Stein is because her establishment ghoul party is afraid of losing votes. Because of their complicity in Genocide of course.
- That isn't what she's saying at all! She's saying that if your party isn't growing then maybe the leader is kind of rubbish and should be replaced. Very different from his you're hearing it.

Coincidentally, opening this post in my preferred Lemmy client (Eternity), causes it to crash.

Edit: Updating this for anyone else that may also use Eternity: This seems to be related to having autoplay enabled and is fixed in the nightly builds.

AOC might be the most dangerous thing in the western hemisphere.

Edit: Watched it again. She’s lost the plot of the story. Security and comfort has made her complacent.