• surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Do y’all ever stop to ask, ‘what could we do to win these people to our side?’ Or do you think the condescension will actually work this time?

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Ever get the sense that just maybe, someone out there past the boundaries of the only nation that exists, probably fictional, certainly not worth having on your Christmas card list, might have figured out a different way to do things?

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      2 days ago

      Its sarcasm. All the theatre about voting third party doesn’t make sense because people could shut up and do that if they feel they want to make a change. The loud noise is most likely coming from people trying to derail one candidate or the other.

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        2 days ago

        The point is to scare one of the main candidates to not support a genocide, so doing it silently would be against that. Tbh, it’s also the same reason I think a lot of them are bluffing and will end up voting for one of the main two instead.

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          You’re giving them way too much credit, it’s about siphoning votes and nothing else. That is, among other reasons, why RFK joined the Trump campaign when the polls showed he was mostly taking votes from Trump.

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            That might be why the candidates are running, but it’s not why people are voting for them. You haven’t seemed to have applied any empathy or gone into the mind of a third party voter at all, especially in this election, which is a different situation because of the ongoing genocide.

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If I had not seen this video, or seen this specific and pretty obscure information presented elsewhere, I would be all in on third parties (though even then I’d understand that this election specifically is not the time), and there would be absolutely no reason for me not to be.

    If someone’s emotionally closed down to the fact that first past the post makes third parties impossible, then something needs to open them back up before they can learn it. But plenty of people just have never heard it, and there’s no reason any normal person would have.

    And if you don’t know it, the reasonable assumption in its absence is that people don’t vote third party because they’re limp-dicks incapable of imagination and commitment.

    All we need do is insert the critical piece of information. Those who haven’t pre-decided beyond all reconsideration will see that it’s a very different situation with that bit of info factored in.