• derf82@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    And I promise you, all but 2 of those options have a 0.0000% chance of winning. Like it or not, that is the system we have.

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      10 months ago

      i think i saw it was more like 1/500 so it’s more like 0.2%. at least that’s what the betting odds called for stein and west, who are the only two candidates i see that deserve my vote.

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          10 months ago

          Speaking to The Intercept in 2017, she said the notion that it was an “intimate roundtable” was “mythology,” and that Putin and his associates “weren’t at the table for very long.” Stein said that “nobody introduced anybody to anybody” and that she “didn’t hear any words exchanged between English speakers and Russians” due to the lack of a translator.

          from your first link

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              10 months ago

              it was the tenth anniversary of a media outlet that gave her more time than probably all American media combined. she paid her own way. it’s a nothing burger

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                10 months ago

                And what media outlet is also inviting Putin? You are burying the lede that it is Russian State TV, RT. Kinda proves my point.

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          10 months ago

          your second link contains actual lies or facts that have changed since it’s publication.