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DivineChaos100 [none/use name]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago

Don’t Fall for the Third-Party Trick

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Don’t Fall for the Third-Party Trick

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DivineChaos100 [none/use name]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago
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A progressive who stays home on Election Day — or backs Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, or No Labels — is voting for Donald Trump.
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  • RollaD20 [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    Progressives should not make the same mistake that Ernst Thälmann made in 1932. The leader of the German Communist Party, Thälmann saw mainstream liberals as his enemies, and so the center and left never joined forces against the Nazis.

    Why did he see mainstream liberals as his enemy? honk

    Why did he see liberals as his enemy, motherfucker!?!? big-honk

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      I’m sure the liberals were just itching to extend an olive branch to stop the Nazis right? anakin-padme-2

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        Von Hindenburg making Hitler chancellor: clueless

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        anakin-padme-3

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      This bit made so angry, the author tries to i come history and then blames the fucking commies. WHO APPOINTED HITLER AS CHANCELLOR YPU DUMMY? WAS IT HINDENBURG? WHO VOTED FOR IT WAS IT THE SUCDEMS OH IT WAS WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT

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      They should learn the lesson that libs will side with fascists against you so don’t begrudgingly support them.

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    A progressive who stays home on Election Day — or backs Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, or No Labels — is voting for Donald Trump.

    Good thing im not a progressive, im a communist.

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      fidel-salute

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.net
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    A progressive who votes for Biden on Election Day is voting to genocide Palestinians

    • QuillcrestFalconer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Easy solution is just saying you’re not a progressive so the argument doesn’t apply to you

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    I’m voting for Trump by not moving to one of the five states that actually determines the outcome of an election.

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      every other country on the planet is actually voting for trump by not immigrating to one of those 5 states and voting for the dnc candidate, it’ll be the world’s fault when they lose and to punish the non-voters immigration will be further penalised in a bipartisan bill

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        Pitching Minnesota to Swedes like “It’s just like where you are now except with worse healthcare and more cheese and if you don’t move it’s a vote for the guy who would enable a genocide over the guy currently enabling a genocide”

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        i never could bring myself to vote for orban, but i can certainly vote for THIS orange idiot!

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      Bleeding Kansas 2.0

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        See if libs suggested going to swing states and killing fascists with a giant sword they’d have my attention.

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          They wouldn’t be libs then

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    PSL is the only actual political party in the race, so no worries there. Democrats and Republicans are not political parties, just bourgeois fundraising apparatuses.

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      Wait this is on THE INTERCEPT lololol what a joke “leftist” news organization

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        I’m a lib in the morning and I just woke up

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          I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

          • yewtu.be
          • inv.nadeko.net
          • yt.artemislena.eu
          • piped.video
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    Wow, the Republican primaries have just started and the libs are already chiding 3rd party/non voters for 2024.

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      Liberals have already been blaming anybody who has a problem with genocide for bidens loss for months.

      Nothing encourages people to support you like preemptively scolding them for not voting for them hard enough a year ahead of time.

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    Unironically starting to love this argument.

    I haven’t seen a liberal get more upset then when I tell them “don’t worry I’m also not voting for Trump so actually I am voting for biden”

    Then tell them by not voting you’re apparently voting twice and why are they not taking full advantage of their democratic right by legally voting twice by voting for nobody.

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      Yeah I come from a conservative family who says they’re not voting in 2024, so does that mean Biden is gaining several votes somehow?

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    writing DEEZ NUTS on the ballot and doing a double take as the text starts glowing gold and the letters fly around to form the name Donald J. Trump

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    i already held my nose and voted for biden once, a credibly accused abuser of women who turned out to later materially support not only neo-nazi militias but the literal genocide of palestinians, so i’m instead going to learn from my mistake and never vote for anyone again in america. i should have learned this lesson from voting for obama and seeing him abandon every single campaign issue people cared about.

    • CaliforniaSpectre [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      https://votesocialist2024.com/

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        PSL

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      Yup regretted voting for him the first time especially since most of his actions since being elected can basically be boiled down to “what did you expect idiot I told you I wasn’t going to do anything you wanted”

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    Anyone who stays home on Election Day — or backs Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, or No Labels — is voting for Joe Biden.

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    Libs: we need to protect American democracy!!!

    Also libs: HOW DARE YOU vote wojak-nooo

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    “fall for the two-party trick instead!”

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      “Look your two options are give me $100 or give me $20, doing anything other than giving me $20 would be foolish”

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    Note that they point out RFK and Cornel West, but not hillary. It’s still her turn, patriots in control, trust the plan.

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    I’m not the biggest fan of Cornel West tbqh but he shouldn’t be put on the same level as RFK Jr. 🤮

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      Liberals are so pissed he dropped out so they can’t pin the 12 votes he was going to get on all progressives.

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    Lol

    Lmao even

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