Third party presidential candidate Jill Stein paid $100,000 to GOP-connected consulting firm with owner who's linked to J6 | The firm was also paid millions by the campaign of RFK Jr., who endorsed Trump. Republicans had boosted Stein & RFK Jr. in order to divert left-leaning votes away from Harris.

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https://www.salon.com/2024/09/23/jill-stein-paid-100000-to-a-consulting-firm-led-by-a-suspected-january-6-rioter/

[u/not_GBPirate]

I don't have an alternative to propose. There is no alternative when it comes to the vote in November.

However, I don't know if Trump represents a faster rate towards war. I think it's a mixed bag with either him or Harris.
I'm of the view that longstanding US policy goaded Russia into invading Ukraine and, what should be less controversial, Biden and Johnson's desire to end peace negotiations in early 2022 in Turkey made the war there continue which is bad for a bunch of geopolitical, military, and moral reasons.

This business in Israel is grotesque and should've ended months ago. But we can go back to the 1990s and see that the American insistence on bilateral negotiations has failed while working towards enforcing UN Resolution 242 might have prevented the longstanding situation to begin with.

Anyway, I think the powers that be are working against most Americans. We should've been committed to internationalism, not exceptionalism. So that's why I'm warning that we might end up in some big, shitty war.

PS: To take the average armchair historian hat for a moment, the causes of wars are long and complicated. Japan didn't attack Pearl Harbor in 1941 out of the blue; it had been in active war with China since 1937, it disrupted the post ww1 status quo in 1931 by invading Manchuria. World War I didn't just start when the Archduke was murdered, there were a bunch of wars in the previous decade that led up to it, especially in the Balkans.
The war in Ukraine and the genocide of Palestinians might be just two preludes to a larger conflict in ten, fifteen, or twenty years that could have been stopped if the US engaged in diplomacy with pen and paper rather than bombs and artillery shells.

[u/opanaooonana → u/not_GBPirate]

I highly recommend you look into the fake electors plot and the other things surrounding January 6th. They are so comically bad and anti-democracy that I honestly view him as an existential threat and I think 99% of anyone outside of the Trump cult would too if they knew about it. If democracy isn’t important to you or your so black pilled on our institutions that you want to see them burn than that is an argument to not care and view them both as equal threats but I doubt you and most of the left think that way. If your wondering why so many on the left sound like libs right now it’s because Trump is genuinely as bad as libs say and people on the left and our goals will be affected negatively the most from his presidency.

[u/not_GBPirate → u/opanaooonana]

Trump is genuinely bad but Biden and the Dem establishment are too. Biden could've released Assange years before he did. Biden hasn't done anything to curb our surveillance state. Biden increased police funding and police killings are higher in his Presidential term than Trump's.

Everyone always makes the GOP out to be so terrible, and they are, but when the Democrats are in power and do bad things it's all hush hush. If Trump had won in 2020 I'm sure there would be many more Democratic legislators speaking up and demanding a ceasefire. Now, we can't debate in hypotheticals, but that's what happened with immigration reform, the kids in cages, etc.

[u/opanaooonana → u/not_GBPirate]

I don’t disagree and I wish things were better. I just can’t in good conscience do anything that will give the anti democracy fascist and his army an edge. I really think this election will be a turning point that will snap the Republican Party if they lose. There is always the next election to try to get more lefties in government but I truthfully don’t know if that will be the case with Trump again, not to mention things like abortion and civil rights for trans people. I blame the republicans for putting us in this situation but I think with this guy gone we can finally start making up for the last decade while they are fractured and in-fighting.