I see the bad faith actors making a final push. : politicalmemes

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 hours ago

Lemmy.ml is all about this right now. The idiots... They claim to want things to lean more left, then they help the right with their narrative.

Ever since coming here (Lemmy) I've started to develop a solid bias against the far left. They are defeating their own goals when they do this shit.

For the record, I'm independent but I vote blue because the GOP is insane.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

I wouldn’t call ml far left.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 105 points 19 hours ago

A few more days. Please, just gotta hold off a week and a half. After that, I can shift gears from "Fuck's sake please just support the non-fascist candidate against the literal fascist" to "These are the problems in this fucking country and they need to be addressed, and fuck Harris if she doesn't"

Just spare us an immediate future of fascism. Buy yourselves, and ourselves, more time to work. Even if you think this is ONLY buying time, buy it. Because things are NOT going to be easier to organize under a fascist regime - and the idea that the more people suffer, the more they're inclined towards your, specific, political views, is just not borne out by reality.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 48 points 19 hours ago

Third parties have some valid ideas and I don’t oppose voting them in down ballot to create an alternative to the two main parties.

But voting for them as presidential candidates right now means that I’m effectively voting against my ideals.

[-] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Voting dems down ballot is just as important. Don't be a fool.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

I’ve said my piece, you don’t have to agree.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 25 points 17 hours ago

Until third parties have a presence at the national level it’s stupid to vote for one for president.

If you think Democratic presidents don’t get anything done with a Republican Congress just wait until both sides of both houses refuse to work with a third party president.

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 9 points 15 hours ago

This is what I've been saying. Even if a third party somehow managed to win the Presidency, they still can't do anything if Congress doesn't play ball. And knowing Congress, they're not going to. There's zero base for a third party President to stand on because none have made the effort to win seats in the House and Senate.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

And that's not even taking into account the judges who get to rule on things, who have all been appointed by one of the two parties. Even if Congress works with them a judge can just throw it out.

[-] testfactor@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

I do think it depends on where you live. In about half of states, your vote for president is meaningless. Mississippi isn't going blue and Massachusetts isn't going red. In those cases, voting third party has the chance to effect future federal election funding.

But yeah, if you're in a state with literally any chance at all of being a toss up, don't vote 3rd party.

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[-] Fester@lemm.ee 23 points 18 hours ago

I can’t wait to talk about this country’s shit healthcare again from November 6, 2024 thru April, 2028.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Amuuurikah! Fuck yeah!

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Edit: I have no idea what this is from, but somehow a ginormous flag-painted truck pooping out another, still giant flag-painted SUV that then proceeds to make a mess and what looks like endangering a child in a desert town, possibly of middle eastern origin, seems VERY American to me. Though I apologize for the appalling lack of bacon and guns, which I will henceforth rectify with this actually real picture:

[-] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 6 points 8 hours ago

That first GIF is from Team America: World Police, it's a Bush-era film from the guys who made South Park. It aged pretty badly in a lot of ways since it's lampooning the War on Terror, but it's still hilarious IMO. Worth a watch if you like the idea of South Park as an R-rated puppet movie.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 8 minutes ago

Omg that sounds hilarious 😂

[-] sploosh@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago

Ranked choice baybeeee!

[-] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf7ws2DF-zk

[-] Limonene@lemmy.world 37 points 18 hours ago

For anyone who honestly believes in third party stuff: try supporting ranked voting at the local and state level. Once we have more ranked voting at local and state levels, it will be easier to push that at the federal level, which is the best way to solve strategic voting problems in presidential elections.

Nobody would support ranked voting for presidential elections if that's the first time they hear about it. But if people use it already in local elections, and see that it works better, then extending it to presidential elections is a logic choice.

[+] bloodfart@lemmy.ml -8 points 7 hours ago

Hi, I’m bloodfart. You may remember me from such posts as:

“I voted for party for socialism and liberation and you can too!”

And:

“They’re running Claudia de la Cruz on a platform of Palestinian statehood and an end to arms shipments to Israel”.

But today I’m here to talk to you about how psl is eligible for enough electoral votes to win a landslide victory.

You see, people working on behalf of one of the two major parties often deploy the argument that a third party can’t win, so you shouldn’t vote for them. Due to the tireless work of politically active, committed anti genocide Americans just like yourself, psl can get 474 electoral votes this November!

So get out there and vote psl! She can win if you vote for her!

[-] javasux@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

She can win if you vote for her!

What the literal fuck are you smoking

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I see the bad faith actors making a final push.

And look! Here’s one now!

The PSL is a trash option. It has a barely above zero chance to successfully scratch its own ass let alone become a viable candidate. And in the event that they accidentally manage to get themselves elected, all their batshit promises they’ve made will never see the light of day because they don’t actually work when pressed against reality.

And reality is where we live.

DO NOT LISTEN TO THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE TRYING TO SPOIL THE ELECTION.

They are not here in good faith.

[-] bloodfart@lemmy.ml -2 points 4 hours ago

One batshit promise that a president de la Cruz could make good on is not supplying weapons to israel by executive order, conditioning non military aid on a ceasefire and halting aid approved by congress due to its illegality under international and domestic law using the power of the justice department.

Harris could make good on that too, but Harris is in favor of the genocide so she won’t.

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago

Bruh. Jill Stein isn’t even on the ballot in my state. She’s got no chance.

Despite my earlier organizing, there are no independents on anything down ballot.

I live in a swing state so, sorry De la Cruz, I can’t vote for ya.

[-] SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

ngl, feels like holding in the worst fart. Can't wait to start complaining again!

[+] mlg@lemmy.world -11 points 12 hours ago

Funny you should choose this meme picture of a Pakistani cricket fan when their third party actually succeeded because people didn't fall for the usual two party propaganda of "they'll never succeed until we first fix X problem"

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Were they polling at 3% a week before election day? In a FPTP system? Without ballot access in enough areas to actually win the election they claimed to be running in?

[+] Aedis@lemmy.world -17 points 15 hours ago

Honest question. What do you do for someone who's sole issue right now is to stop the genocide? There's only one candidate going for that afaik, and it's not Harris or Trump.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago

Who would that be?

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 16 points 15 hours ago

And more importantly, do they have a chance in hell of actually accomplishing anything meaningful beyond lip service?

[-] Aedis@lemmy.world -4 points 7 hours ago

Jill Stein? Unless I'm wrong. It's nuanced, but her position is to stop the genocide.

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You know she has no authority to do anything about it right? She’s only campaigning on this issue because she knows damn well she won’t get elected. This flimsy promise is enough to keep many people locked up from voting for anyone besides her and her baseless savior complex nonsense. All she is doing is siphoning a lot of votes from the one person that will actually be given the authority to change things.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

The Palestinian genocide, she doesn’t give two fucks about the Ukrainian one though.

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I’d bet money she doesn’t care about the Palestine one either, but it sure does take votes away from Harris.

[-] Aedis@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Yeah. I agree.

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