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It's equal parts hilarious and crushingly depressing. Every time I call out dipshit losers who didn't vote or voted 3rd party, I get a slew of downvotes from said losers, but never a reply. They know they're world class idiots, so all they can really do is downvote you.
Thing is, they'll do the same thing again next time around because they're not very smart and honestly believe "voting with their conscience" is more intelligent than voting for the candidate CLOSEST to their ideals that can ACTUALLY win, and, in some cases, prevent a MOTHERFUCKING AUTHORITARIAN from assuming power and crashing our economy and shitting on our Constitution, among other things.
Fun Fact: The 3rd party candidate with the most votes was magician Jill Stein, who magically appears right before every election, then magically disappears again afterward. She managed to nab a whole HALF OF A SINGLE PERCENT of the total votes cast. So there's your proof that anyone voting 3rd party is a goddamn idiot.
I'll say this once for those in the back. A 3rd party candidate cannot win, because no 3rd party has put in the work to get representatives elected in local/state elections, so they could eventually have ANY PRESENCE AT ALL in the House and Senate, so they'd actually have a chance to win a presidency. Lol, even if they somehow magically got a president in office, they would have NO ALLIES in either chamber of Congress to help them achieve their agenda.
Downvote me. They usually hurt my feelings, but the ones I get from dipshit loser non-voters and 3rd party voters enhance my libido.
10 years ago i was a lot dumber. i'm the first to admit: i voted jill stein because i didn't care for hillary, but she was going to win. trump was a laughingstock joke even back then, and the polls and the hype around hillary bamboozled me. not that my vote would have changed it, but clearly a lot of people thought the same
that's when i learned my fucking lesson about voting 3rd party. never. again.