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    Perception operation, TikTok can be very effective in this regard.

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    The Green Party thanks Lemmy for all the publicity it has given to the Jill Stein campaign

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    Anything that helps legitimize trump (increase overall pop vote numbers, regardless of loss) or props up green party and stein with a stated intention to get trump elected, in fact “helps trump”

    Considering a vote for Dr. Jill Stein? I’m open if you have some insight I’m missing, but in my experience the green party has some exciting ideas on the surface, as lip service, but the party doesn’t put in meaningful work in interim government outside of a presidential election cycle every 4 years. So it’s a meaningless party.

    You may think, “I’m in a solid red or blue state where my vote can’t influence at the national level”, but I find it hard to support Green/Stein in any capacity with how blatantly Stein has, in my opinion, been knowingly running as a spoiler candidate. The Green party has a (now publicly stated) intention to have Harris lose Michigan specifically. Below is clip from a Stein rally in Dearborn, Michigan. A surrogate for Stein is about to introduce her and spells out their intentions very clearly during remarks,

    "We are not in a position to win the White House, but we do have a real opportunity to win something historic… we could deny Kamala Harris the state of Michigan. And the polls show that most likely Harris cannot win the election without Michigan.”

    I would ask anyone considering a vote for Stein, in any state, to consider that truth they speak openly - When they are admitting that they can’t win, stating a goal to defeat the Harris campaign and acknowledging that Harris likely cannot win the election without Michigan, the undeniable net of that is that they are working to directly secure a second trump presidency, in my opinion.

    As I see it, we just cannot have it both ways in a two party system. If the green party was a serious movement working against two party politics (and I would personally embrace and support this) they would become THE platform for ranked choice voting with a green party candidate in every meaningful on/off year election to make that issue ubiquitous with green. They speak endlessly about the flawed two party system (with a clear bias towards shitting in dems), but in the current two party system we actually have, you can’t cast a protest vote without actually casting a vote for trump in this election - And that cannot be stated more clearly than this green party spokesperson states it at this event before Stein speaks.

    Here is a link to direct feed of that green party rally in Dearborn Michigan if anyone wants to see first hand to consider. It’s a longer video, but it starts at the point discussed and surrogate makes the above quoted statement within about the first minute speaking. https://youtu.be/WKSm2FQ8z60?t=5153

    And trump acknowledges as much directly mentioning Stein and green party campaign by name recently,

    “Cornel West — he’s one of my favorite candidates, Cornel West,” Trump said. "And I like — I like her also. Jill Stein. I like her very much. You know why? She takes 100% from [Biden]. [West] takes 100%. Kennedy’s probably 50/50, but he’s a fake.”

    https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-speech-jill-stein-cornel-west-rcna158627

    I’ve heard individual positions I like from West, Stein and others in the past, but in my opinion if they aren’t fighting to be the bridge to engage the flawed structure of elections in this country as third parties, these are just campaigns driven more by individual candidate ego than a motivation for systemic change.

    Those are my thoughts.

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      If the dems lose votes to the greens it will be because of their own fucking policies including genocide. They could always change their policies. But instead they blame the public.

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      I get the logic you put forth. Yet as someone who lives in a more diverse democracy (although it has been getting dangerously more polarized in the recent decades), I’m always baffled by this presumption that a candidate deserves someone’s vote by default.

      In this case, let’s say there aren’t any other parties on the ballot other than the Democrats and Republicans. In Michigan specifically you have a voter group, that says that they cannot vote for genocide especially if it is against their own families or people that look like them. And both parties are either promising the continuation thereof or have been engaged in it and have been excluding anything related to addressing it, or people representing that voter group, from their campaign. So the presumption, that if there wasn’t a Green Party to vote for that they would be coming out to vote for the Democrats is imho just flawed. They might just as likely stay home.

      What I find even more baffling is that this party can’t seem to clearly outperform the even more clearly dangerous candidate to democracy. The Arabic or Muslim population in Michigan should not be this decisive for the outcome, if the Democrats were able to actually persuade voters to turn out by delivering an attractive policy plan, thereby earning the votes, instead of just arrogantly thinking, they’re entitled to them.

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        Yet as someone who lives in a more diverse democracy (although it has been getting dangerously more polarized in the recent decades), I’m always baffled by this presumption that a candidate deserves someone’s vote by default.

        If you live in a democracy where the spoiler effect isn’t an issue, then just be happy, whistle, and move on.

        If you live in a democracy with first past the poll elections with an electoral college, then you should understand how the system works and vote accordingly.

        The spoiler effect is where you vote for someone (Jill Stein in this case) who you think better aligns with your particular set of policy goals, but since they have no chance of actually winning you help the candidate most opposed to your policy goals (Trump in this case) by subtracting votes from the less aligned candidate (Harris in this case) that actually does stand a chance of winning.

        It’s an ironic outcome of voting in our system. By voting for the person most aligned with your preferences you actually help the person least aligned with your preferences.

        Trump is worse on genocide and climate and will be assisted greatly by idiots voting for Jill Stein in swing states.

        They’ve done research and provided these assholes aren’t on the ballot, people usually choose a ballot-present major party option instead.

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          I did say that I live in a democracy with more parties, not that it does not include elections where there is the “first past the post” principle, so I’m familiar with the spoiler effect.

          Trump is worse on genocide Although that might be true in some sense, please try to understand the people affected here. If your family is the one affected, it doesn’t get more dead, than dead. I’m not saying, I would vote the same way, but I can understand not wanting to actively vote for killing your family.

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        Nobody thinks they are entitled to votes. This is about triage during an emergency.

        To make it simple, let’s assign a number out of 100 - Likelihood that a second trump presidency enthusiastically and loudly helps Israel escalate and “finish” their genocide in Gaza: 98.9

        Likelihood that post inauguration, a Harris presidency does something that doesn’t go as far as the above, but still does meaningful damage, just more quietly through diplomacy and weapons shipments: 32

        Now it isn’t great that the Harris number isn’t zero, even negative, but the reasoning for her campaigns current position is likely a combination of election politics plus the vestiges of Biden’s outdated and misguided position on blind support for an Israel that’s in his mind and not in front of him.

        So first up in a triage… You get Harris in because less likelihood for absolute annihilation. I’d then wager a likely softening at worst to full end of support at best once Biden and election are out of the active picture. Most importantly, we eject Harris because a Harris presidency will preserve your right to protest Harris. A second trump presidency likely leads to the end of American democracy and the freedoms Americans take for granted.

        After a Harris admin victory she needs to be sworn in the following January, but on day one, I fully support that we FILL the streets across the country, a la Vietnam era protests. We block freeways and interrupt commerce until a Harris administration ends all US support of Israel’s genocide. We will have that right and that chance with Harris, you’ll get shot in the fucking eye and tackled into an unmarked minivan if you try that in a second trump administration.

        Realize the weight of this decision, and listen to Stein’s own campaign telling you they are doing to get trump elected. Time to get WIDE awake and ADULT on the reality here.

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          I’m familiar with First-Past-The-Post voting and the spoiler effect. I’m also familiar with choosing to vote for whom you’d prefer to fight when elected. We are dealing with the crimes of crimes here and I can absolutely understand anyone whose family is affected to not want to take an active role in their killing. Especially since the campaign has not signaled to that voter block, that they are seen or heard. The best example is denying a Palestinian-American a shortened and cleared speech at the DNC. It could have been only a ceremonial thing, less weight than lip-service, but they opted for exclusion instead, i.e. the opposite.

          My main point though: How can this party not be clearly ahead of that menace to democracy and its institutions? This one voter block should not be the deciding thing. Overlooking the agency of the Democratic Party in this and putting full blame on the people rubs me very anti-democratic. Implying them to be immature and other forms of voter shaming is not making a good case either.

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            If you’re in a poorly made boat that has a hole in it with two other people…

            And you are all actively sinking in that faulty boat, about to die in the middle of the ocean…

            And one of the people states they will make more holes so you all drown…

            And the other wants to work to keep the boat floating enough to get to shore, but not to your ideal…

            Who do you help in that moment, or do you fold your hands and sink on principle? And you understand that sinking is not a neutral, moral victory here, because you’ve effectively supported the person who wanted to make more holes and sink the boat.

            If you don’t get to shore, you won’t live to attempt to sue that horrible boat company to hold them accountable and keep others from using their faulty boats. And if you don’t help the person bailing out water, the person making more holes will kill you all with less effort.

            The “people” above are to represent general philosophies of the two “sides” in this discussion, not individual candidates. There is no option to truly stay neutral here, direct action or willful inaction, both have impacts that you are responsible for.

            What do you do?

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              Look, I get what you are saying and even agree to a certain degree. Yet, the premise here is that one of both parties is opposed to genocide, which is false. For the affected voter group, who are getting shamed for making the crime of crimes their litmus test, both people are trying to make more holes albeit of different sizes.

              So, what would you do? I would probably throw both of them over board ;)

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    If you’re getting convinced by anti-green rhetoric, I don’t blame you. The greens are pretty bad.

    You can always vote for the party for socialism and liberation instead. They’re running de la Cruz on a platform of Palestinian statehood and an end to arms shipments to israel.

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      Or don’t vote against your own interests by voting third party. Because First Past the Post means that any third party is going to act as a Spoiler, siphoning votes away from the major party that is ideologically closest to the Spoiler.

      What you should do is hold your nose and vote against the literal fascist.

      Then on November 10th or so (for incumbents that win) and Jan 10th or so (for the newly elected), start writing actual letters to your congressmen, Call them, email, seek them out in person at meet and greets, and push for voting reform.

      Now, the temptation will be to advocate for RCV. This is the wrong move as well. RCV is inherently broken and can actually produce worse results than First Past the Post, while also having some diehard fans who promise the fucking moon. No, if you want third parties to have any chance at all of growing and possibly winning, you need to advocate for Approval or STAR.

      So remember, start pushing voting reform the second we kick the fascist to the curb. Push on day one of the new session, and keep pushing. Do the work ahead of time, and maybe, we can revisit the third party issue in the future.

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        Well, more and more people are pushing back against those thoughts. I’m see lots of people tired of waiting and going for third party this year. And it’s awesome to see!

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          Literally throwing away their vote, and helping Trump.

          You cannot have a third party under First Past the Post. It it literally impossible and only aids Trump. So yeah. It’s not awesome to see. It’s aggravating. Because if you advocate for third parties, you’re a stealth Trump supporter pretending to actually care.

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            Because if you advocate for third parties, you’re a stealth Trump supporter pretending to actually care.

            Nah. If I wanted to support Trump, I’d just vote for him. But I didn’t vote for him. I voted third party. Happily! Thank you!

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                Claiming that not voting for Harris means supporting Trump is flawed; using that logic, anyone who isn’t voting for Trump must be supporting Harris.

                Voting for a third-party candidate is a choice to support what aligns with your values, not an automatic endorsement of the opposition.

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                  Welcome to Plurality voting, advocating for third parties is mathematically indistinguishable from advocating for Trump.

                  Stop it unless you want Trump to win, in which case, fuck off.

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          And again, Ranked Choice is flawed to its core. It’s the only voting system in existence that fails the monotonicity criterion. Basically it’s the only voting system in existence where you can rank someone lower and it increases their chances of winning the election.

          Ranked Choice is so flawed that every place that implementes it, has a movement to repeal it. Sometimes a successful movement (Like in Burlington Vermont)

          Ranked Choice is a step back and actively harms real efforts at Voting Reform.

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        No.

        I haven’t held my nose for a democrat for going on fourteen years and I’m not going to start now.

        I’m politically active far beyond voting and have spoken face to face with several representatives. They don’t care or listen.

        No amount of voting reform will fix the fundamentally unjust American political system.

        I have been doing the work and will continue to do so. Voting for PSL in this election is part of that work.

        If you’re reading this, don’t fall for the “oh if only we had star or ranked choice” fiddlefarting around the edges garbage. We live in under a fundamentally unjust political system and especially when both major parties are advocating in support of genocide there is no reasonable argument for performing the calculus required to declare one the lesser evil.

        Walk away from omelas.

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          [Nobody cares]

          [Jill Stein is a vapid, forgettable cunt with 0 plans for governance or policy change]

          [You supporting her only makes you look like the same type of human-garbage]

          Hope this helps 🫶

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            I’m literally suggesting people vote for a party and candidate different than stein.

            Did you reply to the correct comment?

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          it must be really nice to be privileged enough to have this viewpoint. and all for what? so you can give yourself a nice ethical pat on the back when you help siphon from the dems, and the gop comes after women and minorities? not sure what your background is but damn dude that’s some fucked up shit

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            Ok I’ve heard all kinds of different reasons someone might be privileged, but doing work on the ground for years and laying the groundwork for real activism rather than whatever the hell you call this terminally online bullshit, is now what you people call privilege?

            This shit is why Occupy died.

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              ground activism is great! but this person’s comment pretty much sums up to “whichever if the two candidates win in November, I won’t be effected enough to consider not tossing my vote into the trash to prove a point,” as do all 3rd party arguments. that’s privileged.

              many many people quite literally have their lives on the line with this election, it’s extremely disrespectful to put them all in danger for some self centered, ill-thought out attempt at morality.

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              Yep, people here call me privileged too.

              Um, I’m biracial, bisexual, and barely make above minimum wage. But because I disagree with some on here, I’m “privileged.” lmao

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              Occupy died because of “terminally online bullshit”? I guess that terminally online bullshit is either more effective than what you’re suggesting or your analysis sucks.

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                One whole paragraph followed by a comment like that implies someone is usually talking about the whole episode going on and not just the keywords you singled out.

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            Maybe they just like the GOP but don’t want to admit that they like them.

            They also completely disregard the fact that the Voting System itself causes the very problems they have with the political system.

            First Past the Post is 100% the reason why we vote against a party, rather than for a candidate.

            That combined with the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 have caused all sorts of problems. That too is something to advocate against. But one thing at a time.

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            What background do I need to have in order to be allowed to recognize that the mathematics of lesser evils don’t make any sense?

            Is there some amount of subjugation I can be under that allows me to have a materialist analysis?

            Literally me: Don’t encourage these scumbags, don’t wait another moment to stand up for what you know is right, voting is the easiest way to make your voice heard!

            You: wow, must be nice!

            If youre reading this, don’t listen to people who try to mobilize identity politics against you. They don’t know or care who you are and would hate you more if you were a minority speaking out.

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              What background do I need to have in order to be allowed to recognize that the mathematics of lesser evils don’t make any sense?

              A mathematically illiterate one.

              See, we live under a system of First Past the Post, otherwise known as Plurality.

              It’s a system that forces a two party system. Not as a conscious choice, but as a consequence of the very system itself.

              Here’s the kicker. Plurality voting actively punishes you for supporting a third party.

              If you siphon votes away from the lesser of two evils, the greater evil wins.

              It’s a pretty simple concept. And since we are just weeks away from the election, anyone who is actively pushing for third parties is automatically suspect.

              Because the problems with Plurality are not some newly discovered quirk. They’ve been studied for centuries, but most extensively by Kenneth Arrow in the 70s.

              What I’m saying is that most of the money given to support Third Parties, comes from people who are on the opposite side of the spectrum from those Third Parties.

              Simply put, Trump and company throw money at the Greens and Socialists to siphon support away from the Dems, so that Trump and company can win with fewer votes.

              So you, advocating for a third party, are mathematically indistinguishable from a Trump supporter.

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                Wow if third parties are so powerful then how come you’re not voting for one too?

                It seems like a great way to force the major party of your choice to pay attention to your politics.

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                  I’m not voting Third party because I’m not a Trump Supporter.

                  But you may be one. Mathematically speaking.

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      A side effect of me being terminally online is that you can predict the top comment of some posts

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        Agreed. I’m a teacher and see it in my classrooms. I often feel that they’re not taught how to have healthy community, so they become lil fascists…

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          They know this shit isn’t working, so they’re siding with the ones who give them someone to blame… It’s that simple…

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          If they’re like my nephew, the “manosphere” gives them easy answers as to why everything seems to suck.

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            Tell your nephew that Trump just said he’ll ban video games if he wins.

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              It doesn’t help that every time we point out how society failed boys, there’s always someone who says it’s misogynistic to show men any concern…

              Being a guy is no cake walk, and if anyone can say that with a straight face it’s me.

              lights up a cigarette They say women like a bad boy, well, I was so bad at being a boy I became a girl.

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              Yup. Patriarchy did them dirty. Society told them they had to be strong, stoic, and without emotion. And when that butted up against the realities of being a human we didn’t have any community to lead them towards living a good and healthy life.

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                Calling it “patriarchy” is thinly-veiled victim blaming, implying that men suffer primarily because of other men’s decisions. Everything you describe is perpetuated and maintained by both sexes. The social fabric of modern society, its implicit rules and conventions, is not a male establishment.

                Western society is not, at all, a “patriarchy”.

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                You can fault the Right for a lot of things but they got there first on this one. They have a story for why things suck and they’re pounding the drum on it relentlessly. It doesn’t matter that this story is full of holes when the alternative is not compelling.

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                Patriarchy did em dirty, but feminism also left them behind. It’s not just patriarchal society that forces men to be strong and stoic, it’s also self-professed feminists, especially women. Feminists say men should be more in touch with their emotions, but when they do so women have no interest in them. That’s one of the realities of life you mentioned.

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                  Every single woman I know wants a guy in touch with their emotions. And those who found them, married them.

                  Tell your friends to stop trying to date under 25 year olds. We get over that shit at about this age.

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                  That’s still patriarchy, my guy. They’ve been raised to be complicit in a system that doesn’t benefit them, and they’re perpetuating it because they don’t like how it feels to step outside of it.

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                  when they do so women have no interest in them.

                  Personally, I find my experience to be much the opposite. But, I’m also in my late thirties so, experiences may differ.

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                The amount of times I’ve had to address the “students using litter boxes” schtick is absolutely mind boggling.

                It’s always a school two towns over, and it’s always someone who has no attachment to the school attempting to push it.

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        right wing support amongst <35 y.o. men is surprisingly high…

        The media is flush with fascist attitudes in a country where going on the computer and listening to fascist rants is all you’re allowed to do with your time.

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          all you’re allowed to do with your time.

          If you stopped listening to fascist folks you could step outside and see that you have a lot more options.

          Sorry you’re in this rut!

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          “in a country where […] all you’re allowed to do with your time.”

          Eh… The same phenomenon is observed all over first world countries and all of those countries you’re allowed to do mostly whatever the fuck you want with your free time…

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            you’re allowed to do mostly whatever the fuck you want with your free time…

            You’re free to do what you want and the police are free to rough you up for loitering.

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      I have great hope that they’ll be better than our generation, just as we were better than our parents. Fuck the ‘fuck the kids’ mentality.

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        I’m a classroom teacher, and I find that you’ve gotta sometimes have both “fuck them kids” and “for the kids” in different measures. But overall, I feel like they’re doing a lot of cool things.

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          That’s a good point. I think that one of the myths that needs to die is that if the cherubic, sweet, innocent, and pure child. Many children, without guidance, are sociopathic assholes. We’re not born “good” then corrupted by the world, we’re born with some personality traits that may or may not help us as social creatures and need help to learn how to handle our emotions and cooperate with others in a manner that is pro-social.

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            Yup. Like John Green, I’m generally in favor of humans, but we’ve got some perfectly natural tendencies that can really harm others if left unchecked. I think kids want to do good, but they need to be taught how to, given the space to practice, and corrected with grace when they fuck it up.

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    I heard a piece on Here And Now today about a group of single issue voters in Dearborn that is actively working to disrupt and damage the Harris campaign. They are trying to get dems to vote for Stein.

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        Thing is, there is no “stop blowing up my family” vote in this election.

        It’s “status quo, maybe some improvements but don’t hold your breath about anything major” vs “corruption, corruption, corruption, fuck everyone who isn’t a billionaire or has their lips firmly attached to billionaire assess, especially the entirety of Palestine” vs “I won’t vote for either of those options but will still need to live with the one everyone else votes for”.

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      It seems like they’re using multiple strategies in an effort to put pressure on the Dems. Some are saying that they are going to vote for Trump even though they are also anti-Trump. Their logic is that Kamala is actively contributing to a genocide, whereas Trump is not.

      I doubt there is anything they can do to actually make Democrat politicians feel pressure, but I do agree with their sentiments. I’m not voting for some who is pro-genocide. Trump is both pro-genocide and fascist. I’m also not going to vote for a 3rd party candidate because most 3rd parties focus on the presidential race more than they focus on grassroots efforts.

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        I mean they’re naming an illegal settlement after trump and Netanyahu is explicitly advocating for trump. What’s crazy is polls show Kamala would get like a 6 point poll boost by breaking with biden on this and saying something a little more forceful about a peace deal, such as a deadline where arms deals are halted. It would almost singlehandedly secure michigan.

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            I think its more that they’re afraid of being labeles antisemitic by the media and there’s pressure from the military to maintain status with Israel

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        Their logic is that Kamala is actively contributing to a genocide, whereas Trump is not.

        Even though he literally is, has put the Israeli Embassy in Jerusalem, and has advocated for the deployment of nukes in Gaza…

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        Their logic is that Kamala is actively contributing to a genocide, whereas Trump is not.

        This is literally the most braindead political take I’ve ever heard, and that’s saying a lot

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          It’s a classic “technically true, but not particularly useful” information tidbit. Harris is in office, Trump isn’t.

          Of course, you could argue that Vance - as a powerful member of the US Senate - is participating in the genocide while Walz - a governor of a midwestern state with no meaningful role in foreign policy - isn’t. Equally true, but meaningless.

          The problem Harris has isn’t that Trump gets innocence-by-default by being out of office for four years. Its that she’s doggedly clinging to the “both sides” framing of the Israeli genocide and scaring off Arab-American voters as a consequence. It doesn’t matter whether Harris is better or worse than Trump when the baseline of US policy is the mass slaughter of your friends and family.

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            It’s a classic “technically true, but not particularly useful” information tidbit. Harris is in office, Trump isn’t.

            Harris is in an office that is entirely powerless (yes, she casts a vote in the event of a Senate tie, but no bill funding Israel has come down to that). She and Trump have nothing to do with the (current) Palestinian genocide.

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              Harris is in an office that is entirely powerless

              Harris has enormous amounts of power by simply having access to the President’s phone 24/7. That’s before you get into how much authority she’s been delegated by a man whose brains are leaking out of his ears.

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                And you’ve confirmed that you don’t understand how the President works. He isn’t simply the King of America who can wave a magic wand and do what he wants.

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                  you don’t understand how the President works

                  Tell it to Dick Cheney. He goes into this at great length in his autobiography

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            The problem that Harris has is the mountains of propaganda working against her.

            Not saying she’s perfect, but in a practical sense the spin matters FAR more than the facts.

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          I agree that it’s a bad take. But at this point I think that they’re desperate, trying anything they can to get Kamala to change course. It’s an urgent issue that can be solved easily: just stop supplying weapons and aid to Israel. Four years from now, most Palestinians living in Palestine will already be dead.

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              it’s not just uninformed voters, my grandfather is a retired history teacher and, he firmly believes that while Isreal is in the wrong, that it’s not in the US best interest to drop them. He’s worries that the destabalization of the area further will invite other foreign adversaries to invade it while also losing basically the only is friendly territory around. He’s worried it’ll be a repeat of the last time

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        Voting is a strategic choice, not an endorsement. You should vote for the candidate who you would rather have in office.

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        Voting third party is viable when we change the voting system, to ranked choice voting for example. Until that time comes, the two primary parties will remain dominant.

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            It’s literally already happening. Locality by locality state by state at least take the time to look around you before you make any absolute statements. It’s going to take forever at the national level absolutely. Far longer than I should. But it can and will happen.

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        It’s more like throwing your vote in the garbage, with the electoral college, but thanks for revealing what you are so I can block you

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          If I didn’t get a good laugh from every stupid thing Index says on a regular basis, I would have done the same already.

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            Sorry, I don’t communicate with people who support genocide enablers like Jill Stein.

            🤷

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            No one owes anyone engagement. Especially someone like you. Who’s showing themselves repeatedly to be disingenuous and bad faith. You don’t have to like it. But there’s nothing you can do about it. Outside of act like a better person.

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          If voting for a third party is throwing your vote in the garbage, voting for parties backing a genocide is throwing it into the toilet.

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    if you live in a state with preferential voting (eg alaska, maine?) wouldn’t you be better off voting green if they represent you views better?

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      The Green Party, maybe. Jill Stein, with the stuff she’s been saying I am not quite sure if she would actually present your views better or if she’s an actual competent leader. Of course you can have the question of the best of the worst, but then still I’m not sure if she compares well.