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Bad faith actors are busy these days. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

Third parties are obviously the way any intelligent person may choose to vote. This video explains why they are currently not viable in America. Ranked choice voting has to come before third parties. It's not a moral thing, it's voting math.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Gonna vote third party as soon as the Democrats and Republicans implement ranked choice voting

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

ITT: people skipping over the 39 days bit. Time and place. Let's save the Republic then we work on everything else.

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[+] [email protected] -22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Assuming bad faith over everyone who disagrees with you is a first step to fanaticism and vulnerability to external opinion.

Weaponizing tribe mentality to reach your goals is very bad long-term, and makes yourself susceptible to the same trap.

Lemmy, unfortunately, is very prone to that. Remember that time people called here for Biden to step down and were downvoted into oblivion? Where were they when he actually stepped down and everyone started cheering for Harris all of a sudden?

There are valid reasons to NOT vote for the Democratic party in these elections, even if you clearly don't side with the Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (7 children)

The one valid reason not to vote Dem/Repub this cycle has been to not support genocide, which ultimately supports genocide except the voter can dissociate their vote from the outcome. Other than that, I haven't seen any other valid arguments to vote 3rd party, particularly when looking at what those candidates would do if they won. Holding the presidency with all of Congress against you means you can't get anything done, so it's a waste of 4 years.

The argument of bad faith you've made sounds awfully like the beginning of a slippery slope argument.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Noooo you aren't allowed to say that!

One of the mouth breathing imbeciles who will determine our future based on a confluence of distraction, idiocy, and geography might read it and think they too have a choice!

Or worse yet enough people might get the idea that their vote is more than just something to throw away. If even 1% of the country grows that way each cycle corporate profits might be threatened at some point!

Believe the people who sobbed their hideous wretched guts out that we had to support Biden! They're never wrong On PuRpOsE!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You sound like you get bullied a lot and you don't really understand why everyone is ok with it