Pre-empting this to ask everyone to please remain civil.
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But then I remembered he's [deer]. Just like me. He has a family that loves him. And that's an exploitable weakness!
it's commentary on matthew mcconaughey's statement.
Man that pissed me off. He said it right as early voting started. Choose third party because every side's bad. How would you fucking know Matthew? This is Texas. There's only been one side for 35 years. How the fuck would you know both sides are bad? Like I'm not saying he's wrong necessarily I just don't think he has that information.
And if you're going to sit there and blather about voting third party pick a fucking third party. Which third party Matthew McConaughey? Who you backing? Are you saying vote libertarian? You picking up the green party? I don't even remember seeing them on the ballot. Pick a candidate you bongo playing lunatic. Fucking coward.
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Sigh... I was that guy in my 20s, voted for Ross Perot twice. Didn't expect him to win but I wanted to send a message to Washington that I wasn't happy with either party. He got 20% in '92 and 8% in 96.
THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR SUCH SHENANIGANS.
Except if one would've voted GOP. Then a third party is an amazing choice.
Dunno if that tracks in the current climate. Even Libertarians seem to be a bit pissed off at Trump.
*nervously looks around for people who would shoot me for having magnificent horns or voting ninth party*
"Voting ninth-party" sounds like a level of abstraction that describes writing in a termite mound in the Gondswana Rainforests.
Why so abstract? We have 5 parties that have seats in parliament and 9 other registered parties that don't.
"Third-party" in the context of US politics (I think that's where it comes from and is most widely used, owing to its major structural problems that almost inherently create only two major parties federally) is an abstract term referring to any minor political party, not specifically the third-most-popular. There's no such thing as "voting fourth-party", so an nth level of abstraction beyond that becomes absurdist.
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All the candidates are Johnny Depp's characters
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Which of the two major parties stands against capitalism again?
Neither, unfortunately, but we have a two-party system, and one side is openly fascist, so I would advise that anyone who doesn't like fascism vote for the other non-fascist (arguably less-fascist) party.
I don't like voting for the "lesser evil" and wish things were better, but voting for unviable candidates out of a sense of blind idealism is worse, because it empowers the most regressive movements to succeed.
We don't currently live in a real democracy, but we have a chance to turn things around. If you decide to give up and let the fascists win, you're one of the bad guys.
We need Ranked Choice Voting and Mixed Member Proportional districting to reduce the need for strategic voting.
Sure, that's obvious to you and me, as seasoned internet users. But we can't expect lawyers and career politicians to understand such things. They must be ignoring it by accident.
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One of them is the "Openly advocates for billionaires" party and the other is the "Discretely advocates for billionaires" party.
Which third party has a chance to actually win or do something and isn't just throwing your vote out?
All of them, complain about non-voters not voters.
Okay let's see. We have a large part of the population who just won't vote. Voter apathy is real.
Of the Democrats and Republicans, you have about 2/3 of each party that are voting like it's a sports team. They'll never change and they'll never think.
The thinking people who vote for each party understand that the third party has no chance and they're trying to sway things generally in their direction.
So the third party victory plan, if I have it correct, is to overcome voter apathy, and also to sway some people who are voting like a sports team from both parties.
If that's your plan for victory, then you don't have a plan for victory. And you're just wasting your vote.
Call me cynical, but I think third parties are funded by people outside the country to sway the election. Just like they only thaw out Jill Stein every 4 years to steal votes from the Democrats, and then they park her in a Russian freezer somewhere for the rest of the time.
Part of building a viable alternative is getting enough votes for consistant ballot access and other resources that are afforded by default to the two primary parties. Winning comes in degrees.
Yet Jill Stein vanishes for four years between Presidential elections and does absolutely nothing to support a third party coalition at the state and local level.
And she somehow deserves your vote for simply not being a D or R? Yeah nah.
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I'd love it if people just voted, period.
Republicans can vote third party all day long. You will hear no complaints from me. If you are a Republican, please vote third party if you can't vote for anyone else.
Or just stay home. Consider not voting if you are a republican.
Perhaps the deer introduced (bi)proportional representation and are living the good life now?
That's what allows me to vote 6th party without making my vote useless.
lemmy when you talk about killing politicians π
lemmy when you mention third parties π€
We need to dismantle a large portion of the primary parties to make third parties viable.
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I just want to highlight, despite the guffaw this post gave me...
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Wait does this have something to do with that thing with Joe Manchin and Matthew McConaughey?
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