• ceoofanarchism
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    2018 hours ago

    This is just not true voting third party or not voting means you are voting third party or not voting. This reasoning is senseless so if I vote Lu Cruz I’m helping Trump, Harris, Stein, etc… all win no I’m not. No reason to vote for a candidate who will run fascistic policies which Trump and Harris both will. Electoralism is a dead end in broken system built to maintain the status quo.

    • @[email protected]
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      818 hours ago

      you’re only kidding yourself. the election doesn’t give you points for process. it only gives you outcomes. and as things are right now in the US, there are two. you either contribute to outcome 1 or outcome 2. there is no other kind of action.

      • @fecklessB
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        413 hours ago

        Can you explain why a vote for 3rd party is a vote for Trump, and not a vote for Harris? What makes it FOR Trump, and AGAINST Harris? Why isn’t it for Harris and against Trump?

        • @[email protected]
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          12 hours ago

          I can, it’s because you’re talking to a Harris supporter. If you were talking to a trump supporter it would be a vote for Harris. They both say it about each other and it’s pretty funny.

        • @[email protected]
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          216 hours ago

          call me when you do that. hurry though, unless you do it in less than a month we’re back at outcome 1 vs outcome 2 and literally nothing else.

          • ceoofanarchism
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            315 hours ago

            Or you can advocate and prop up neither outcome “1” or “2” and work towards “3” while keeping in mind both history and the unity of actions and goals.

              • @fecklessB
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                213 hours ago

                How do you decide which one of the two I’m contributing too?

        • Rhaedas
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          217 hours ago

          Absolutely change the system. It’s been a problem for a long time. However the current system is what we have for this election, so unless you know a magic way to use a different voting system for this election and not FPTP then there really are only two choices. If they both suck to you, then pick the one that has potential for change from public pressure, and by all means vote in more progressive choices if possible for the lower representation because that’s where the real change can happen.

          It would be great if the anti-FPTP rallying would last past the election. People seem to get so overwhelmed by the voting propaganda that once they cast their vote they want to forget about it for four years, and that’s why we keep having these same discussions every time when it’s too late to fix the problem.

    • @[email protected]
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      918 hours ago

      Abstentionism isn’t praxis. It’s a losing strategy given the current state of politics; even a cursory examination reveals this to be true.