Honestly, if you’re in the US, please vote.
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firebreathingduckreplied to fiberologist last edited by
@fiberologist @gwm @benroyce @WAHa_06x36 @baconandcoconut
Before I continue, I voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, Biden in 2020, and Harris by mail this year. I haven't been ignorant enough to vote Republican since the 1990s, and I'll never make that mistake again.
The centrist rage against third parties is unfair. Our enemies are the people supporting Trump, not the people voting third party. "You're either with us, or you're against us!" is exactly the kind of false dichotomy fascists use.
If Harris loses, it will be because the Biden Administration would literally - literally - rather support the Palestinian genocide than improve their odds of beating Trump. (And before anyone else says "Trump would make the genocide worse!" - "The other guy would commit genocide too!" is not a valid argument.)
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Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Votereplied to firebreathingduck last edited by
@firebreathingduck @fiberologist @gwm @WAHa_06x36 @baconandcoconut
"centrist rage against third parties is unfair"
i stopped reading here
the usa is a fptp voting system
a 3rd party vote can only strip votes from another party -> the party you dislike most wins
viable 3rd parties require ranked choice voting
support that
"americans" who say they vote 3rd party are either morons hurting their own cause, or geopolitical troll farm trying to swing the election
welcome to reality
learn it
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Kevin Leecasterreplied to Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote last edited by
@benroyce @firebreathingduck @fiberologist @gwm @WAHa_06x36 @baconandcoconut
Here's a decent video discussing Jill Stein's investment in the fossil fuel industry despite asserting that she cares about global warming.It also highlights how she is the reason that we even had to have a first Trump administration too.
#JillStein #VatnikSoup
https://youtu.be/H0GFCPsXusI?si=iqguBlJ4n6EGAsDi -
This is amazing. #JillStein is just a flat-out Russian agent, isn't she? Where did she even get the $8.5 Million that she has invested in the fossil fuel, defense, banking, and tobacco industries? Has she ever had a job?
She hires Republican consulting firms... She's represented by Trump's lawyers... She targets only Dem voters, only in swing states... How the hell did we make it this easy for Putin??
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@barney @GreenFire @benroyce @firebreathingduck @fiberologist @WAHa_06x36 Jill Stein is not a Russian agent.
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firebreathingduckreplied to George Maschke last edited by
@gwm @barney @GreenFire @benroyce @fiberologist @WAHa_06x36
"It also highlights how she is the reason that we even had to have a first Trump administration too."
That's funny, I could have sworn the reason we had a first Trump administration was Republican voters.
How silly of me.
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Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Votereplied to firebreathingduck last edited by
@firebreathingduck @gwm @barney @GreenFire @fiberologist @WAHa_06x36
for the 25th time in this thread:
in a fptp voting system, a 3rd party vote serves as a spoiler on the party closest to you, and de facto support for the one furthest from you
this is the reality
i don't like that reality, but i live in reality
do you?
my question for the trolls here working hard to elect trump to get us more genocide by supporting 3rd party:
do. you. understand. the. usa. is. a. fptp. voting. system.
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firebreathingduckreplied to Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote last edited by
@benroyce @gwm @barney @GreenFire @fiberologist @WAHa_06x36
For the 3rd time on this thread, if not the 25th:
1. I *did* decide that Trump is so much of a threat, that I voted for Harris. My refusal to vote Democrat again until they stop the genocide starts next year, assuming Trump is defeated.
2. The people de facto supporting the party furthest from me are the people that actually vote for the party furthest from me. Again, you're making a fascist, false dichotomy "If you're not with us, you're against us" argument.
If "harm reduction" is the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of civilians, maybe we're not worth saving.
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Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Votereplied to firebreathingduck last edited by
@firebreathingduck @gwm @barney @GreenFire @fiberologist @WAHa_06x36
i appreciate you voted for harris
so why are you here trying to minimize the problem of 3rd party voting?
do
you
understand
the
usa
is
a
fptp
voting
system
helllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooo
"Again, you're making a fascist, false dichotomy "If you're not with us, you're against us" argument"
no, galaxy brain, IT'S JUST MATH
learn
you are uneducated
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firebreathingduckreplied to Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote last edited by
@benroyce @gwm @barney @GreenFire @fiberologist @WAHa_06x36
The Democrats are never going to move left, as long as their current policy of "Fuck you all, the Republicans are worse" and promising all kinds of progressive policies they never intend to deliver wins elections.
I live in Pennsylvania. Voters in PA can't even make ballot initiatives to change state laws or the state constitution. All ballot initiatives have to come from the state legislature, which will never voluntarily give the citizens the power to break the two party duopoly.
When enough people vote third party, the Democrats might decide they need to deliver on their campaign promises. Until then, they'll keep marching us to hell by using Republicans as extortion.
(Edit: for anyone that stumbles across this post without seeing the rest of the thread: I voted for Harris, I voted for Biden, I voted for Hillary Clinton. I consider Trump a unique threat. But going forward, I'm done.)
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George Maschkereplied to firebreathingduck last edited by
@firebreathingduck @benroyce @barney @GreenFire @fiberologist @WAHa_06x36 The Democrats have triangulated me straight out of the Party.
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Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Votereplied to George Maschke last edited by
@gwm @firebreathingduck @barney @GreenFire @fiberologist @WAHa_06x36
your toxic idealism has rendered you impotent
democrats had nothing to do with it
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George Maschkereplied to Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote last edited by
@benroyce @firebreathingduck @barney @GreenFire @fiberologist @WAHa_06x36 I don't think the idea that genocide is intolerable is "toxic."
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Then why did you come here to help Trump win?
You're a fraud. A genocide-supporting liar.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/25/trump-netanyahu-support-gaza-lebanon/
@benroyce @firebreathingduck @GreenFire @fiberologist @WAHa_06x36
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@barney @benroyce @firebreathingduck @GreenFire @fiberologist @WAHa_06x36 I didn't come here to help Trump win. I responded to @Gargron's post to point out that the winner of the 2024 presidential election is going to be a fascist, whether it's Trump or Harris, and that there is an anti-fascist alternative on the ballot.
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Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Votereplied to George Maschke last edited by
@gwm @barney @firebreathingduck @GreenFire @fiberologist @WAHa_06x36 @Gargron
and what you don't know, in ignorance, or you know, but hide in malice, is that in an fptp voting system 3rd parties only serve as a spoiler
thus a vote for 3rd party is a vote for trump, and you are helping us get fascism, and helping to kill palestinians
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firebreathingduckreplied to Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote last edited by
(I don't know if anyone else still cares about the discussion.)
Impotence is spending twenty years voting for a party that has no interest in implementing anything they campaigned on.
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Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Votereplied to firebreathingduck last edited by
yeah. they've done nothing. no gay marriage. no legal marijuana. no obamacare. nothing has changed at all. yeah. yup
and yes the dems could do more
if more people fucking voted so they could win more
and stopped *blaming the democrats for GOP obstruction*, genius
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George Maschkereplied to Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote last edited by
@benroyce @barney @firebreathingduck @GreenFire @fiberologist @WAHa_06x36 @Gargron What I know is that I reject any candidate who supports genocide. That rules out both Trump and Harris for me.
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firebreathingduckreplied to Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote last edited by
blaming the Democrats for GOP obstruction?
Obama controlled the Department of Justice for 8 years and filed 0 anti-trust suits for "too big to fail" and prosecuted 1 small fry industry middle manager for "we're going to go after the people who caused the financial crisis". The big banks are still there, and Biden hasn't gone after them either.
Obama campaigned on protecting whistleblowers and then treated Snowden like a traitor.
Biden was the biggest Democrat cheerleader for the unjustified invasion of Iraq.
The GOP didn't make Obama order 563 drone strikes during his Presidency.
The GOP didn't make Hillary Clinton orchestrate the coup in Libya.
The Democrats overwhelmingly support our military budget every year.
Biden and the Democrats could have stopped the military aid to Israel at any time.
I am *profoundly* grateful for the Affordable Care Act, and the anti-trust lawsuits filed under Biden, and the appointment of judges that respect the humanity of people that aren't white cis heterosexual Christian men, and the legalization of marijuana.
But the big picture is that the Democrats are still in Wall Street's pocket, still bloodthirsty warmongers.
