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Jill Stein releases statement condemning Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad as War Criminals (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Linkerbaan to c/progressivepolitics

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Twitter link to post and Imgur mirror of statement

The interview being referenced is

EXCLUSIVE: Mehdi Interviews Jill Stein

Which still requires a premium Zeteo subscription to watch.

As a premium Zeteo sub I watched the interview, and found her condemnation of Putin rather lacking so I'm glad that she released this clarifying statement.

Lot of Republican grifters and actual Putin agents on Twitter losing their jimmies over this.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She can’t be too rough on her boss or she might get thrown in jail next time she’s visiting.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Boy she sure likes being invited to dinner with war criminals then!

[+] Linkerbaan -10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Pulling up literally the same image from 9 years ago and make up wild stories with it. It is truly astounding.

Last time I saw the image the textboxes were yellow so that's how far the variation goes.

Have you considered looking up what Jill Stein said about it back then? https://youtu.be/ot9QbFjRSwM?si=K_0sPAy3aV42Jc8V

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Bad faith actors continuing to post about an irrelevant spoiler candidate then getting mad when people call out said spoiler candidate as being completely unserious and clearly meant to only disrupt American politics? Lol.

Did you ever stop to think why she was the only person at that table not in a position of power? This stuff doesn't magically go away because it's "old news". It is just as perfectly relevant now as it was then.

She only called indirectly called Putin a war criminal after dancing around the question for minutes and minutes, and being badgered over and over about why she wouldn't answer. This followup statement is not believable, it is a reactionary CYA "Oh shit I need to be in the news" piece.

[+] Linkerbaan -9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you watched the video and your image you'd notice the person next to her is German diplomat Willy Wimmer and the rest of her story checks out. Now if you had more evidence than one single image from 10 years ago your epic conspiracy would sound slightly more believable.

Sadly for your theory this incident has already been thoroughly investigated by the Senate Intelligence Committee and Stein came out scott free.

Now of course to top off the projection, the person with actual direct ties to a foreign dictator who is colluding with them to commit war crimes in plain sight is

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yes we get it, you won't stop until trump wins and Palestinians have all been slaughtered

[–] TokenBoomer 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Interested to see if this is reported by corporate media.

Edit: And a google search says no.