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Evil Ultra trying to split the vote 😠 (lemmy.ml)

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[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago

I am reminded of two quotes from Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson:

How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?

Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?

How low? Now, I guess we know. Voting for the lesser evil for 50 years has got you Trump. Twice. How much lower are you going to go?

I have no solutions. Things will probably have to break completely before the mending can begin.

[-] Edie@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/i-wont-vote/

Since I was twenty-one in 1889, I have in theory followed the voting plan strongly advocated by Sidney Lens in The Nation of August 4, i.e., voting for a third party even when its chances were hopeless, if the main parties were unsatisfactory; or, in absence of a third choice, voting for the lesser of two evils

[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well that's a depressing read. The American rot runs deep. It's frankly disturbing how accurate that article still is.

The writer drops some great lines though.

Thanks.

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[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

How the fuck would the dnc generate a lefty candidate? Thats like asking the circus to generate something other than a clown.

[-] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Man, you really just have to post "I refuse to support genocide" to bring the blue maga nazis out of the woodwork.

It's very simple: I refuse to support genocide.

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[-] Pissed@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 days ago

After working for the DNC for free for years and most of my calls being right, they can suck my fucking dick never again the amount of fucking consulting fees other people squeezed out of those pricks meanwhile I'm basically unemployable because of my politics, I'm not even a fucking american.