• jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 days ago

    Yeah tell ne qbout it thinking not voting for either one somehow helps trump 😂 same people that failed basic arithmetic clearly. What they really msan to say is that people voting third party are not helping harris…and yeah thats the point and entirely not the same thing.

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      49k votes for Stein in Pennsylvania, Trump won by 47k

      32k votes for Stein in Wisconsin, Trump won by 22k

      51k votes for Stein in Michigan, Trump won by 10k.

      Third party voters are useful idiots.

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        Maybe you should convince the democrats to try and win some third party votes then. Can’t blame people for voting according to their values.

        I’m sure you call multiple groups of americans idiots though. Thats definitely not the same thing the republicans do to minorities right?

        You’re doing the good discrimination right?

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            Sorry i shouldn’t have made it so advanced. Ill try to come up with a simpler example in the future!

            But maybe sit out of the political bitch fest if you can’t handle how basic arithmetic works eh?

            If harris or the dnc want votes, then promote and deliver on policies that people want. If you cant well thats a them problem.

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              Copy pasting the same smug wall of text every time is not the political own you think it is. In fact, it makes people not want to read it.

              Maybe you should get off of the internet and enjoy the nature outside. It’s good for people, y’know?

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                shrug maybe people should get a clue on what third party votes mean and stop posting the same tired, wrong, and pointless ‘theyre helping Y’ nonsense and ill stop treating them all like children.

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                Try taking your own advice. A bit of time away from a screen should help with these feeling that everyone who fails to vote for Harris is a Trump suppprter.

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          Is this a bot account or something? Every post has obvious typing mistakes and they all say utter bullshit. When shortly scrolling through their comments I didn’t see a single upvote.

          Every comment is on the usa election. Account created 2 weeka ago.

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            and yes, everyone comment is on the election because thats all I particularly care about atm ;) please support rank choice in your state so this nonsense can stop. I’m tired of watching my country kill people for no good fucking reason. I’m tired of watching people shit on 3rd party voters for having a moral conscience that is clearly superior to the majority of liberals.

            I am sorry every argument against 3rd party voters is so easily torn apart by simple addition demonstrating that its harmless. if more people had a spine maybe harris wouldn’t be supporting a genocide. but then again maybe she would. either way hard pass.

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          Did you even read this article? This is what Liz Cheney actually said:

          “Reactionaries make statements. Conscientious and thoughtful people take action because they know moral statements will never change the world.”

          If you’re interpreting that statement as indicating support for Apartheid, then you clearly have problems with reading comprehension.

          In any case, there’s a big difference between Liz Cheney’s bad opinion in 1987, and the guy who founded the “Knights of the Ku Klux Klan” in Louisiana. There’s quite a gap in scale there.

          Your “stone” seems to be more of a bouncy ball.

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            Dick Cheney is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Incredible that liberals will defend the Cheneys, not sure if it’s that you don’t care about people’s lives if they happened to be born in another country, or if you’re just willing to defend anyone and anything if you think it’ll help you win.

            How did Stein’s response to David Duke’s endorsement compare to Harris’ response to Cheney’s? Did she accept the endorsement?

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              Its the part you said about lives in other countries not mattering.

              The propaganda there is strong.

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            Dick Cheney sweet heart. Dick. But liz is also a shit human. Seems like harris is attracting alot of them with a warm embrace. 🤔

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              But the article you linked is about an op-ed that Liz Cheney wrote while in college? I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make about Dick.

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                indeed it is. that op-ed is just as bad. anyways.

                Dick Cheney voted against imposing economic sanctions on South Africa’s apartheid government and opposed a resolution calling for Nelson Mandela to be released from prison, saying Mandela was a “terrorist”—a position Cheney defended as recently as 2000, when he ran for vice president.

                there are a lot of things about dick we can reference here if you want. but that was the relevant bit. I was just pointing in a direction for you to get you started.

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      Oh the irony here.

      If there are only two viable options, not helping one is the same as helping the other.

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          If there’s a toddler about to walk into traffic and you choose to keep swiping on tinder or whatever instead of helping the kid, that kid’s death is still on you.

          Samw thing with not stopping trump.

          It’s really not complicated.

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              Hey kiddo, instead of deflecting to Palestine, how about you explain how either this voting instance is different than the analogy I’ve given or admit that you’d be fine letting the kid die because of whatever.

              If you’re going to be incorrectly smug about voting third party, try answering a reasonable question about it.

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                  Still waiting for an answer to a very simple question, how is voting 3rd party any different from letting the kid get run over?

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                    You see you’re just confused. you think that the 3rd party vote represents the child being run over. it doesn’t it represents the attempt to save the child. remember harris and trump are both genocidal that child is gonna get wrecked from their cars.

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              What’s trumps excuse? What’s your excuse? What’s God’s excuse?

              I’m tired of all this. I take full responsibility. If I had done more this tragedy could have been averted. I’m sorry to those who have suffered because of my inadequacy. Render what ever judgment you will on me and in the future, if there is one for scum like me, I will try to do better.

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                What’s trumps excuse?

                who cares? he never had a chance at my vote to begin with for a large number of reasons. we can just add it to the pile of shitty things trump is okay doing. but we already knew he was willing to commit genocide. this is a surprise to no one who as paid attention.

                What’s God’s excuse?

                dunno if i could find him i’d ask him.

                What’s your excuse?

                for what? not supporting harris? I’ve been very clear on this: genocide.

                I’m tired of all this.

                so am I friend, so am I. I’m not the one running around trying to convince people to vote for a particular candidate by shaming others using intellectually dishonest claims of ‘helping trump’, ‘both parties were going genocide, pick the lesser evil’, etc.

                I want people to get off their ass and vote. I didnt vote for harris or trump, I voted down ballot. I’m also not in a swing state or a state with shitty womens rights. harris is going to win my state regardless. That being said the liberals running around spouting nonsense about helping trump when its clearly and demonstrably not true is going to lead to people not voting at all.

                And that my friend is why I call this shit out. because they might have voted down ticket regardless which can only help the situation. and quite frankly im happy to treat people with the same level of vitriol that they treat others. Now I will continue campaigning against genocide and getting ranked choice done, please volunteer so people can stop being asses to each other.

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                  who cares? he never had a chance at my vote to begin with for a large number of reasons. we can just add it to the pile of shitty things trump is okay doing. but we already knew he was willing to commit genocide. this is a surprise to no one who as paid attention.

                  It kind of matters. Just a little, don’t you think. Don’t you think the openly fascist candidate matters, sorta, kinda, just a little bit? You know your vote alone doesn’t decide the outcome of the election, right?

                  for what? not supporting harris? I’ve been very clear on this: genocide.

                  Let me figure this one out. Your non support for Harris has discluded you from responsibility for the death of a child in a foreign nation? How about this, I don’t support Harris either. I’ll still vote for her.

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                    do you have a point? what do you think I actually care about? its clearly not trump. yes person w/ the most votes wins.

                    let me ask you this, which is sadder: the fascist candidate or the one who can’t beat the fascist candidate because shes entirely unappealing to americans?

                    What do you want out of this conversation? I want you to call your reps and tell them genocide isnt okay. maybe get you to donate your time to getting RCV passed in your state. Ideally anything that gets people to stop bitching about 3rd party voters who most likely are going to vote down ballot for democrats. which if trump wins controlling the senate/house will be critical.

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                  How does who you vote for in the presidential election promote RCV? How does it reduce genocide? The action you promote advances neither goal. I will grant that if you’re in a secure state, your vote will have little chance to affect the presidential election, but it also won’t serve as a wakeup call to the winners of the election that FPTP needs to go.

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                    You seem very confused. My point is people are pissy about the election because they’re absolutely petrified of trump and are acting like 3rd party votes have any impact one way or another on who wins (they dont).

                    RCV is related because it removes the spoiler effect making these entire conversations disappear. Which i can only count as a good thing because the conversation is stupid and most people are not capable of having a comprehensive understanding of how our election structure interacts with fptp. They see cgp’s video and think they have an understanding but completely ignore the interplay between congress, the president, the electoral college, down ballot effects.

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      Gotta love people trying to use maþ to defend someþing ð actual maþ clearly says is ð complete fucking opposite of helpful.

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        😂 gotta love people who fail to contextualize math. Let me know you when you determine what helpful means to me, was that even the goal? Kind of an important detail dont you think?

        Someday you’ll realize that your failure to understand motivation was exactly one of the points i was making. But alas i fear that day is far off.