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    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      That’s not how any of this works. In many states in the USA, your votes for President are for entertainment purposes only; with our electoral college you can actually lose the popular vote and still win the election.

      More and more people are leaving the major parties every day, voters are 40% independent with Ds and Rs at 30% each. I predict that the major parties will continue to lose voters every year, and anti-incumbent voters will increase.

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        That’s exactly how it works in a 2 party system. Voting for a 3rd party is throwing away your vote, no matter how you try to spin it.

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          Eh, if your state goes 70% R and has for the last 50 years, there’s not much you can do. Unless there’s a big movement, 100% of those votes go to R. Getting better local representation might be more worth it.

          It’s a really shitty system that promotes really shitty incentives, and has even shittier outcomes. I generally advocate for strategic voting, but in some places your vote literally doesn’t matter.

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        America is a two party system, dumbass. There was no other choice beyond Harris. Get that through your thick skull.

        I don’t like her either, but Trump is even worse. And you fucking retards handed him the keys to the white house by throwing away your vote.

        • Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Don’t know why you’re assuming I’m American, ableist bigot. But even if I was, I still wouldn’t vote for a genocide, even if one of the pro-genocide candidates promised to respect my pronouns.

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      If every single third party vote was given to Harris she still would have lost.

      Harris was such a historically bad candidate that she literally lost to the couch.

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      You caught me, everything Kamala did to lose the election was my fault. How could I have been so dumb. Campaigning with Cheney? glock waving? talking about having the strongest military in the world? thats on me. I made her do that. Ignoring the working class, and supporting genocide, again, me. Losing the party base across nearly every single voting demographic? me again. I told her to say she wouldnt change a thing from Bidens policies, when they were polling in the 30s. She wanted to be progressive and give the people what they wanted, but I would not let her do that.

      And why am I so evil? I’m glad you asked, its because I have no ethics and am a trump supporter. You’ve been right about this all along and its time I admit it. Also I am racist and misogynist. Also an antisemite.