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The SCOTUS case brought by the Sanders campaign had a ruling that stated the private parties can do whatever they want in their primaries, without regard for fairness or wants of the participants. SCOTUS recommend that if one doesn't agree with that then they shouldn't participate. I agree with them.
It also doesn't matter whom they nominate. The platform and outcomes aren't changed by the puppet politician, only by the corporate donors writing the legislation. I don't care who figureheads either major party.
I also don't care who figureheads the Green Party. The platform and ballot access is their value. If they scale then pressure is exerted on Democrats. If they scale a lot then a solid candidate will jump ship from Democrats.
My dichotomous vote for President also wouldn't matter. My deep red state will cast all of their electoral votes for Trump. I've decided to vote Green POTUS in the general in small hope others also reason out where such is possible and why 5% of the GE vote is quite powerful for the cause, regardless of party affiliation. There's one other local election where I'll vote because I believe a viewpoint that I don't agree with should be voiced for others' benefit.
There's much more powerful avenues of change than voting. I spend most of my time on what history says will work.
So you're contradicting yourself by telling me you're not voting and that I'm making flawed assumptions about you in response to my apparently correct inference about you intending to vote Green Party, and then telling AmidFuror you are voting Green. Derpy indeed.
I'm voting two races. And, I don't spend hardly any time voting relative the time I spend on all the other more effective means of change.
If you want to label two reasoned and explained exceptions bad faith then by all means.
What kind of "more effective means of change" do you spend more time on?
rebellion, riot, strike, boycott, protest
What more effective means of change do YOU spend more time on though; in real life not in fantasies.
Strike and boycott, 20 hours per week, unpaid. The data analytics would pay $250-300/hr as a sub (because that's what I bill and regularly earn). I also spend a significant amount of time as an educator. My family makes sacrifices, lives a lower standard of living, for the cause of anonymous others that have far less.
How about yourself? How big is your dick, lumpen?
Pretty big but I'm not sure that's relevant. What is though is I work 50+hrs per week to keep shelter over my families head and food in their stomach. Probably a bit too busy to pretend I'm a revolutionary.
Luckily there's a bunch of you out there striking and boycotting every week so I'm not too concerned!