• §ɦṛɛɗɗịɛ ßịⱺ𝔩ⱺɠịᵴŧ@lemmy.mlOP
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    6 months ago

    Cornel West is the best option available, the united states NEEDS an intellectual, philosopher, and social critic in office. It’s been an exceptional shit show more recently. Voting in someone with the ability to actually contemplate the consequences of their actions and not just listen to those with the most money is severely needed to get back on the path to being a functional country.

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      6 months ago

      True enough, but until we get some sort of ranked-choice voting, there’s no chance of a 3rd party candidate being more than a minor blip in the voting numbers.

      • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        So your suggestion is to keep supporting the same people for ever no matter what they do.

        How could that possibly lead to anything changing. You are explicitly sending the message “well keep supporting you no matter what so please do what we want even though it won’t make any difference to you if you dont.”

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          Is it worse than allowing someone to be elected who may not let you vote again? Is that the change you want? Literally a guy who tried to overturn a free election?

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          The only message they were “explicitly” sending was what they actually wrote, which was about the importance of ranked-choice voting. If you feel differently, that’s fine, but it’s not cool to put words in their mouth.

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          No, my suggestion is to not “waste” your vote on an election where one candidate has already attempted to overthrow democracy but somehow still has a large number of supporters. My county votes somewhere around 85% Dem and the whole state always leans blue so there’s no chance of Trump getting the nomination here, and in 2016 I was willing to vote on a 3rd party candidate to show my displeasure over Trump/Clinton… but in 2020 there was no way I was going to give up even one vote against Trump.

          When both parties are equally bad, or when there’s no doubt who will win anyway, then yeah definitely vote 3rd party and make a statement that we’re tired of the same shit. But when the race is this close and one candidate has already stated his plan to do far more damage, then every vote counts and we really need to stick with the candidate who can actually win.

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            one candidate has already attempted to overthrow democracy

            If Democrats actually thought this, Trump (at minimum) would have been in federal prison on Biden’s first day in office.

            They either don’t believe he’s a fascist or are utterly incapable of dealing with fascists.

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              You want to throw someone in jail without a trial or having their day in court? I mean that’s exactly what Trump has said he would do to everyone trying to prosecute him, but in a fair society you make a case and take it before a judge. And a case this big requires collecting a ton of evidence and making sure you have an air-tight case to convict. How many court cases does he have against him already? Yeah things are moving a lot slower than most people would like, but pretty much any big case like this would also be moving at a snail’s pace. Everybody knows he’s guilty, however if you don’t get everything just right then he gets away on a technicality.

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                You want to throw someone in jail without a trial or having their day in court?

                Lmao hell yes I do, this happens for literally every serious criminal case (and a bunch of not-so-serious ones, too). If you actually took the idea that Trump is a fascist seriously, you’d be asking why shouldn’t he simply have been shot.

                Everybody knows he’s guilty, however if you don’t get everything just right then he gets away on a technicality.

                If everybody knows a fascist is a fascist and your only solution is to follow the rules real hard and hope, you are a danger to the country and should be nowhere near the levers of power.

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                They killed Fred Hampton by shooting him in the head point blank when he was defenseless and wounded. The US is capable of unspeakable barbarity and arresting someone with a show trial is nothing.

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            So anybody who does anything other than vote for biden is “wasting” their vote.

            But you’re not saying you just have to keep voting for the dems.

            Ok

            The day can’t come soon enough when the general public starts treating you libs with the contempt you deserve.

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              Please, help trump get elected with that take. I’m sure you will be so much happier with the END of democracy. You don’t seem to understand, this is an existential threat and voting a third party is throwing your vote away. Look at recent history of the other 3rd party runs, they spoiled the election for Gore and Hillary. You may not like dems but there is likely no coming back from the alternative.

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                It’s still setting in how much this new tarrif on renewables pisses me off and I was just thinking I’m to the point I’m so fucking pissed at Biden and every stupid fucking move he makes that I’ve moved on from reasonable arguments and at thisnpoint my reaction to somebody trying to tell me Biden isn’t a huge piece of ahit is pretty much “suck my fucking cock you dumbshit fascist hypocrite”

                So in response to you insisting you’re not saying everybody has to vote for biden and then immediatly lecturing me when I pointed out that’s what youw are saying

                suck my fucking cock you dumbshit fascist hypocrite

                I hope Biden and every liberal who supports him gets hit by a bus.

                He completely failed so badly the cou try is going to swing to fascism because he literally failed to prevent a better alternative and every one of you useless dumbshit liberals who has been carrying water for him is to blame.

                I don’t give a shit if you try to say I’m to blame, I’ve watched for 20 years as you’ve blown every possible decision, emboldened fascism at every step, and even now are punching left harder than you are punching right.

                If you want to win the election stop being cartoonishly inept fascists and stop blaming the people who have been right about everything for the last 30 years while you’ve fucked them over while simultaneously lecturing them.

                I have more contempt for you than chuds because chuds are at least honest that they hate me and were opposed. You dipshits constantly stab me in the back while lecturing me for not thanking you hard enough.

                This country deserves nuclear hellfire.

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                    I could not have come up with a more perfect summary of why not only are dems going to lose but they could not more fully deserve it.

                    You really think that’s a good answer, people voice all the completely legitimate reasons theyre fucking furious with this pathetic excuse of a political party and your answer is to infantalize them.

                    Seriously when Biden loses and you’re telling yourself it’s because of people who oppose genocide having morals being a bad thing I want you to remeber this comment.

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                    I was going to vote for Biden but now I won’t because you acted with such brutal incivility. This is the most important election of our lives; democracy itself is on the ballot and you are turning people away from the polls before they’ve even opened. You are handing Trump the keys to the White House; you are ushering in the dark tide of fascism. Enjoy the next election, you have made it our last.

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                Look at recent history of the other 3rd party runs, they spoiled the election for Gore and Hillary.

                HILLARY PERSONALLY TRIED TO GET TRUMP AS THE GOP’S CANDIDATE

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                Look at recent history of the other 3rd party runs, they spoiled the election for Gore and Hillary

                Shaming the voters because your candidate lost has historically worked very well, very good idea, keep doing that.

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            but in 2020 there was no way I was going to give up even one vote against Trump.

            Democrats support Trump and the like in the GOP to have propped up extreme opposition and make you think it’s your own idea to vote for them as the “lesser evil.”

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              https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-2016-donald-trump-214428

              So to take [Jeb] Bush down, Clinton’s team drew up a plan to pump Trump up. Shortly after her kickoff, top aides organized a strategy call, whose agenda included a memo to the Democratic National Committee: “This memo is intended to outline the strategy and goals a potential Hillary Clinton presidential campaign would have regarding the 2016 Republican presidential field,” it read.

              “The variety of candidates is a positive here, and many of the lesser known can serve as a cudgel to move the more established candidates further to the right. In this scenario, we don’t want to marginalize the more extreme candidates, but make them more ‘Pied Piper’ candidates who actually represent the mainstream of the Republican Party,” read the memo.

              “Pied Piper candidates include, but aren’t limited to:

              • Ted Cruz
              • Donald Trump
              • Ben Carson

              We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to [take] them seriously."

              An agenda item for top aides’ message planning meeting read, “How do we prevent Bush from bettering himself/how do we maximize Trump and others?"

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        You could also recognize that voting is a rigged process and is in no way the limit of political action. You can then choose to do things that are better than using bad game theory to try to get people to vote for a genocide.