Bonus question: How many troll accounts do you thing will stop posting too?
I asked someone which third party candidate they think I should vote for in a thread where they were saying third party is the only anti-genocide vote. Six hours later and I still don’t have an answer. It’s so disingenuous.
They’re using the same playbook the FBI used to split leftists and prevent successful rallying around community leaders in the 60s, 70s and 80s. It’s time tested and it works.
If you want to end the war in Gaza, vote Harris.
If you want to accelerate it until everyone is dead and the war ends faster, vote Trump, 3rd party, or abstain.
It’s really that simple.
I’ll answer for them. Anyone pushing the view points on the matters you desire. A vote for third party is better than not voting at all, as people will just lump you in with people who can’t be bothered to vote otherwise.
That said what matters most is the down ballot. Look up the candidate that most align with your views and vote for them.
Straight-line Democrat it is, then!
they may stop pushing a phony, failed candidate, but they’ll start-in with lies and other bullshit instead.
Russia still has a war to win. It will not stop.
Third party votes are protest votes in a sense. They’ll still be there, they’ll just protest in other ways.
Are these other ways just as constructive as pissing their vote away…?
Depends if you pay attention or care for what they’re protesting.
Better protest vote than Trump at least
It’s the same picture.
I voted third party for my congressional rep. I have the privilege of living in a solid blue district and I did it is a protest, but also because I like the candidate more than the blue candidate. I voted for my favored candidate in the primary, but she lost to a heavily AIPAC funded candidate. I disagree with Israel’s actions and the amount of foreign money in domestic elections. I’ve told very few people this, whether in person or online - more than anything I want it to represent statistical dissent. I would never consider my vote if there were an even remote possibility of the right winger taking the seat.
Foreign money in US elections is illegal. Is AIPAC money coming from Israel? Seems doubtful, as a lot of money flows from the US to Israel already.
That is true. I say this because there is money that flows in through intermediaries(though still illegal, undoubtedly happens), but I also incorrectly conflated monetary support for foreign interests with money from foreign entities - my apology.
How considerate of them. I don’t expect the whiney asses who’ve been bitching and lying for the last eight years to stop regardless of who wins. What will they do without their core personality trait?
No. They will continue to ramble on and on about how “both parties are the same”, and bitch about the person who won. A 3rd party can never win in the USA without changing the electoral system.
If I were in their position (and an {even bigger} asshole but that’s implied), my plan would involve claiming partial credit for defeating [Losing_Candidate]. When the new POTUS does things I don’t like, I can also get all sanctimonious and preachy about not having voted for them so my hands are clean. Best of both worlds.
I think a good measure of whether something is moral is to imagine everyone doing it and consider if it would make the world a better or worse place.
In the U.S., most people probably don’t vote for a third party because they assume no one else will, so they worry their vote will be wasted. It’s a bit of a prisoner’s dilemma: if you vote and no one else does, you lose, but if everyone voted, everyone would benefit.
So, if someone does choose to vote third party, was it the right thing to do? Well, what if every voter acted this way? There’s a good chance the third party could win, and while it’s debatable, it’s reasonable to assume they might be a better choice than the other two.
Ranked-choice voting would solve this issue, by the way.
I’m probably going to leave after the election results are known for sure (note that if it’s very close, we might not be sure until all the votes are counted, which could take more than just a single day) - just too much traffic on here and world to keep up.
Only if the money from Russia and/or China and/or Iran dries up.
They usually disappear and come back to blend in by either taking credit for a good win, or a victim to a loss.
Yes, just like the few two times.
Bonus: they are all troll accounts
A phenomenon easily fixed by being intelligent enough to understand democracy and the argument against a 2 party system
…yes, and then they will pay attention in another 3 1/2 years…
