I couldn't care less who you vote for. Your propaganda crusade for 3rd party candidates is where I get annoyed. Luckily you're incredibly transparent so I don't think you're all that effective.
No one's angry with you. We just know what you are and it's just annoying that we have to cover your spew of nonsense when we could be having much more productive and interesting discussions.
This ends another pointless conversation with a child. Have a nice day!
What they, and you, are doing is refusing to participate in the system as it currently functions and by doing so allowing the system to put a fascist in charge, a fascist that will happily wipe them out.
I disagree. OP is 1000% aware of the results of the actions they support. They are actively participating in assisting fascists. I refuse to let them act like they're sitting this out because they're so enlightened about the duopoly and whatever nonsense they want to bitch about.
And we already have a mechanism to claw back benefits from those that truly shouldn't have them: taxes. Taylor Swift wants food stamps? Cool. Hook her up and then tax that back at the end of the year. It's fairly simple.
SUGAR...IN WATER
Much lower if you're a right wing domestic terrorist like these fucks, that's for sure.
Those who work forces...
Nah he's already got the tax break there. Next dead "wife" goes to Mar a lago. His summer graveyard.
I'll gladly volunteer Colorado. ADX Florence is a perfect spot for him.
Id be satisfied with a well built trebuchet. No need to waste too many resources.
I'm pretty far left of Harris and I would be furious if she got up there and said she was going to ban fracking. We might like to hear that, but it's a goddamn fact that swing voters she needs to win in PA do not. She can say whatever the fuck she wants about fracking as long as she wins.
Dipshit continues to fuck up his own money laundering operation, more at 12.
If the Pope murders his wife they'll have two things in common.
You say we need to capture the party, but I'm watching it be captured by "moderate" Republicans who suddenly seem very eager to endorse Harris.
Because a ton of people who are progressive sit out largely using the argument you've put forth. See the problem there?
This election didn't have a primary, so it sounds like there never was a chance for a "real push".
I mean primarying an incumbent president is incredibly difficult, I'm not going to disagree. But in our local primaries here in CO we were able to knock out 2 old guard dems and replace them with young progressives that will be on the ballot this fall. We're literally moving the party to the left. It's an absolute grind, but that's the only way this shit will work.
It's also exactly how the conservative crazies got ahold of the GOP, I'm not just spouting theory. They primaried the fuck out of members that didn't do what they want, especially at the local and state levels, and it has absolutely paid off for them. And that took at least 3 full election cycles if not more.
They never send me any of that shit, I feel left out.
A lot of people live through suicide maimed because the bullet ricocheted off their skull.
I'm gonna need a definition on "a lot" here
We can do more than one thing at a time. It's absolutely possible to vote for Democrats to put them in a position to do the things we want while simultaneously pushing that same party to do those things.
Real change requires that we capture the Democratic party while strengthening it, not kneecaping it into submission. Primaries are where the real push happens. That's when it needs to be a drag out fight with the party. Not the general.
In a completely uncontested race? Totally fine with voting 3rd party to send a message to the Democrats.
That's not what we're talking about here. When the alternative candidate in a tight race is from a party whose goal is to abandon democracy altogether, that 5% is absolutely critical. In order to "send a message" to the Democrats, you give the GOP the ability to limit democracy even further for the next election. If there even is another election. And the Democrats can't implement the changes you want to see even if they wanted to because they lack the power from losing the election. That's a ridiculous trade-off.
I see you chose optimism today.
If enough people are voting third party that it’s a threat then maybe the other parties should take notice and change to support the popular policies and win back support.
This does not work in a FPTP system. Every vote you peel off the Democrats just enables the Republicans and sets reform back even farther. The only way telling people to vote 3rd party is helpful is if they were going to vote for the GOP. Peeling votes away from Democrats HURTS the chances of other parties to be viable in the future.
- You intentionally lower the amount of ballots sent to precincts you want to suppress the vote of.