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Have the day you voted for, morons!
People who voted against this shit (and no, third party doesn't count) have my fullest sympathy, of course
As a third-party voter, you don't have my sympathies either.
when you say "as a ______," you're labeling the pronoun that follows as the thing you're talking about. in this case, "as a 3rd party voter, you" implies that the person you're responding to is the 3rd party voter, even though you're the 3rd party voter on .ml
most people are picking up on this, and it's a common mistake
that said, third party vote is objectively the dumb and morally wrong vote
I could equally argue that a vote for the Democrats is objectively the dumb and morrally wrong vote and nobody likes a grammer nazi.
Classic rusbot blaming Dems for things republicans do.
Look up First Past The Post to learn why you accidentally supported Trump.
I did and FPTP suggest the two most similar parties should merge... that is, unless the most similar party enjoys playing the controlled opposition. -In that case they might not merge but then supporting the opposition party continues to enable the party in power. So while it takes time for the Democrats and Republicans to merge, I'll be out here voting and advocating for real positive change.
But with FPTP your vote for a third party changes nothing. It simply makes it easier for the other two to win.
Advocating and protesting work. That drives change.
it made it easier for Joseph Biden to win? Do you have any metrics for how much change you've personally affected through protest and "advocating?" as my vote counted for ~1:153,000,000 (not counting for delegates and electoralism.)
Look up "parliament" to learn why casting any vote rather than rebuilding the whole system from scratch leads to supporting tyrants
that will never be on the ballot. the active socialist position is to vote for the least worst candidate with a chance of winning and organize on the margins to build the strength for a robust insurgency movement that can break the system and make a new one. organizing under hyperfascism is much more difficult than under neoliberal fascism. it's why big businesses switch to supporting overt fascism in times of decay. yes, the calculus is a little different if you're in a winner take all location with a heavy majority like maryland, illinois, or idaho. in those locations, go ahead, vote 3rd party to send a message that america isn't homogenous or a binary. or spend your day organizing on the margins. but you have to understand that the most votes a third party candidate ever mustered was 18%, and that candidate was a right wing libertarian with some very concerning views on race.
election day is all about finding a way to make the other 364 days of resistance continue to be possible. they've become much more difficult under the republican controlled apparatus
Parliament doesn't exist in the US you fucking dolt
Yes and there's your problem. Instead of building a proper political system you just keep voting for tyrants all the while burning others because they voted on the wrong tyrant.
Stop voting and get your pitchforks out
Votong for somone you don't agree with is inconceivable to me. Until much more if that hapoens nothing changes. 3rd party is fine and should be encouraged
Blame GOP voters for this mess, not others
I see the confusion. You're not voting FOR someone. That's not how this works.
You WILL get one of the two candidates as your next president. You vote AGAINST the worst one. It's that simple and no simpler.
3rd party is irrelevant until we get ranked choice voting. All it does is split the main two parties and strengthen the one you hate most.
The person you responded to was also bashing third-party voting.
Honestly, I'd rather people educate themselves and vote third parties than not vote like 40% of the country did. If third parties got a large piece of the vote, they could get public funding and make their voices heard more. Sure, there's only two sides to every issue, but you could have coalition style like in Europe.
But our two parties conspire to monopolize the seats of power just like the corporations that buy them.