Chapelgentry

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

The electoral system will be fixed if Trump wins. He will just dissolve it and end the election process. Voila! Reform!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah so the message so far has been carte Blanche vote third party. None of the nuance you're displaying here is evident in 99% of these 3rd party posts. They're all "genocide BAD, vote 3rd party or you're COMPLICIT!" so the message here isnt what you're saying.

Secondly, applying your logic regarding wasted effort because your state is solid blue, telling others to write their congresspeople on the issue is equally useless. Throwing the onus on them is shortsighted. The, "what have YOU done" argument doesn't really hold water with anyone, particularly when many people reside in a solid red or blue state

Finally, voting 3rd party sends "a" message after the election, not during, and no candidate ever looks back at the election results to ask Greenies why they didn't vote for them. They do canvassing before and during, and quite frankly they have to walk a tightrope between courting lefties and every other single-issue voter. Imagine you're running and you have Greenies yelling about genocide, women's rights yelling about bodily autonomy, and LGBTQ folks yelling about equality and all three don't give a flying fuck about the others. What would you do? Exactly what Harris is doing - courting the biggest blocs of voters.

I'm not gonna touch on the general laziness of my compatriots, but when I went to early vote at my precinct there were a lot of people voting straight ticket, so I don't think most people will dig through ballots to send that message. Frankly, Trump in power means nothing for down ballot votes because he still installs a fascist regime.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I think it's the 3rd party voters here that are implying that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (8 children)

This is such a backward comment I don't know where to start. Tortured logic, the fact that voting 3rd party doesn't send the specific message you're looking to send, or perhaps that it's all Harris' fault that she lost while ignoring everything about outside election interference including Stein's ties to Russia and conservatives all in one post. Bonus points for projecting that a large death of her base cares solely about Gaza and would be willing to suffer fascism instead.

Can't wait until these astroturfing accounts are retired after the election.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Just like 3rd party candidates come around every 4 years

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'd imagine they have enough munitions and suppliers for it not to matter, and doing so will simply deteriorate relations, causing the US to hold less sway with its one ally in the region.

Nah, that's too nuanced - just don't give them guns and they'll stop.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Who controls the House? That's a better barometer of change but having a supportive president is paramount. Either have control of the house and overwhelming control of the Senate, or enough control of both that a friendly President signs the bill into law.

Why hasn't Biden done it already? Mike Johnson.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

You answered the prescient question - "months." They need to work a base down ballot first so they can actually get anything done in Congress. No one wants to do the groundwork and thinks if we just elect a 3rd party candidate in the highest office everything else will follow.

Wat a pipe dream.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, good thing I'm not a single-issue voter with a vote to waste.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Is there a single post in your history where you don't spew absolut bullshit?

Every post of yours is unfounded garbage about how Democrats are complicit or working with the GOP to do some nefarious thing.

Here's an unfounded claim for you: you're full of shit and a foreign agent trying to sway votes for fascism.

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