• Empricorn@feddit.nl
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      10 months ago

      It was a joke. But functionally, you’re throwing your vote away. If you care so much about 3rd-party candidates, instead help us pass ranked-choice voting!

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        10 months ago

        If you care so much about 3rd-party candidates

        honestly, i don’t. i vote because it takes like no effort, but i vote for people i actually want to win. i’m not terribly invested in whether they do, though: every politician i’ve ever voted for who won turned out to be a terrible disappointment.

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          9 months ago

          every politician i’ve ever voted for who won turned out to be a terrible disappointment.

          Weird. Based on your comments, you’re clearly a rational, empathetic individual open to intelligent discussion, so the issue can’t be you

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        10 months ago

        help us pass ranked-choice voting!

        no, thank you. i don’t want that system any more than the current one.

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        10 months ago

        i don’t see the point of this question. it’s clearly rhetorical. if you have something to say, say it.

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        10 months ago

        you don’t need to know anything about so-called “third party” politics to know that if you count a vote for one person as another, that’s illegal and it is not the policy to count green votes as republican votes.

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          9 months ago

          This is a weird comment. It’s not “so called,” It’s actually called third party politics. And Bernie is the longest serving third party politician I think ever, at least in modern history.