Nearly 50 leaders and activists who worked with Mr. Kennedy at an environmental nonprofit group will run ads calling on him to “Honor our planet, drop out.”

RFK Jr, like the other third party candidates, is running as a spoiler to help Trump — his staff have even said so:

The only way that Trump can even, remote possibility of taking New York is if Bobby is on the ballot. If it’s Trump vs. Biden, Biden wins. Biden wins six days, seven days a week. With Bobby in the mix, anything can happen

    • @[email protected]
      11•7 months ago

      Oftentimes they’re just useful idiots who troll for free or just naive young people who would rather take an ineffective moral stance than compromise and accomplish real positive change.

      There is a widespread sentiment of “I’m not voting for Genocide Joe” while refusing to be mature enough to realize the next president will either be Trump or Biden and Biden is clearly the better chance.

      As a long time Sanders supporter I’d love someone better on the ballot, but I voted for Hillary and I’ll vote for Biden because our current system doesn’t allow any other options.

      In the adult world our choices are often a turd sandwich or a shit taco - I currently work at a PE controlled company with fantastic coworkers, I could jump ship but my work satisfaction is almost certainly higher where I am… even with the constant cuts and exploitation.

    • @Bernie_Sandals
      6•7 months ago

      Lemmy isn’t really big enough to warrant those afaik.

      • @halcyoncmdrEnglish
        2•7 months ago

        On the contrary, Lemmy has a massive bot problem. Bots are cheap to operate, and unlike major corporations who make security and spam a focus, federation allows them to leverage smaller servers with poor sign up requirements to hide across the fediverse.