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JAWs's avatar

A big problem is that many of those voters aren't voting for Stein because she's the "better choice" (even without Clinton, there are enough competency issues with Stein's candidacy to conclude that the woman wouldn't even qualify for City Dog-catcher). There are voting for Jill to "stick it" to Clinton because they drank a big can of Spite(TM). But just like any form of pretty vindictive revenge it leads to hollow "victories" where the perpetuater (and of course innocent people who get caught in the crossfire) ends up the most damaged (the ones who are going to suffer most from this will NOT be Clinton.)

So it looks like the chance to politically "Moon Hillary for rebuttal" (see The Simpsons for details) offered very little reward for the consequences (again, as is often the case with small-minded vengeance.)

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They're peddling as many myths as the Breitbart brigade, it's shameful. My newsfeed is currently full of that Jonathan Pie video where he rants about how this result is all the social-media-left's fault because "we" made the poor sods feel embarrassed to say "what they really think" by calling out bigoted arsehattery, and all the Bernettes are nodding vigorously with, "Testify!" and "Yep! This!" He also claims Clinton delayed her concession because she was having a sook about the result or was too arrogant to have a concession speech ready (never mind that counting was still going on and some states had yet to close the polls, don't let that get in the way of a good story). Reminds me of when the late Bob Ellis (whose writing I generally liked, but he was very much of the old school white cishet male leftist and could come out with some WTFery) had a crack at Julia Gillard for cutting an official overseas trip short when her dad died suddenly. The original version of the blog post sneered about "girlie tears" - he sensibly edited that bit out, but the sense was the same - and that a real manly leader would have put grief aside and done real manly things.

I mean seriously, if they really buy the notion that actual non-bigots react to being told when they fuck up by flouncing and going, "I'll show you how non-bigoted I am by wholeheartedly endorsing a bigot with bigoted policy positions, take that liberal PC police!" then I know a nice barrister overseas who wants to share his dead client's millions, I'll give him their email addresses. See that bin, you lot? Get in it.

It's such a relief to be able to get this out here. I have had it up to here with FB this week; I should take them on more but I don't have the energy.

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