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How election math works: a vote for Harris is taking a vote away from a third party candidate and is giving it to Trump.
I’ll leave this here in hopes you’ll watch it. There is no way for what you’re hoping to actually succeed in the current environment. The only way out is through and the only way through is voting as harm reduction.
1, voting is not harm reduction, and 2, that video has given you a false conclusion. the lesson we should learn is that strategic voting leads to party consolidation, and the only way to keep third parties is to continue to vote for them.
- Yes absolutely it is 2. I remember this account and it makes total sense you're campaigning for Jill fucking Stein. Jesus Christ 🤮
harm reduction is a specific thing. voting is not harm reduction.
Unless you care about truth in which case it absolutely is harm reduction
harm reduction has a specific definition. voting is not harm reduction.
Not really interested in your pedantry that probably isn't even technically correct (not that it matters)
I'm voting third party. I don't care what you think. Thank you!
Hasn't changed who I am voting for. Thank you!
So what are your guys's weekend plans?
Some light shitposting?
Not sure what you mean? Guys? Who is it you are talking to?
In the fifty days (Congrats!) since this account was created, it's made three thousand nine hundred and eleven submissions to Lemmy.
That's one every eighteen minutes and twenty-five seconds twenty-four hours a day seven days a week!
Numbers are really clear. When we can't call a spade a spade, just point out the inhuman posting speed and let people come to their own conclusions...
Thanks for saying that I have inhuman posting speed! Now I feel important!! Thank you! :)
This poster gets SOOO close to making an observation that would utterly destroy its half-baked, IMO inauthentic reasoning, if it'd only take a closer look at what it's saying. So, I'll close the gap here.
Suppose we could wave our magic wand and get everyone to agree with this poster, getting everyone who is voting Kamala Harris today to vote for ... Rachele Fruit. But the price of this vote is that everyone who WAS voting Rachele Fruit now has to vote Kamala Harris. Suddenly, it's Harris who is spoiling the vote for Fruit...and Jill Stein remains as much as spoiler for Fruit in this magic universe as she is for Harris in this real one. That's the problem with third parties. No matter how the votes line up, whether it be for the Social Workers Party in this parallel universe or the Democrats in this one, votes for Third Parties merely harm your political ideology by taking away votes from the major party on your side of the political aisle and empower the major party most opposite of your ideology. You'd have to go to another parallel where we made Ranked Choice voting work before you could risk a SWP vote in a Rep-Dem world or a Dem vote in a Rep-SWP world.
SOOOO close, yet so far away.
I don't care. I am happily voting third-party. Even if you don't like it. Thank you! :)