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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Always remember it's like fantasy football 🏈!

Yeah! I'm voting Harris! Yeah!

If she wins.... meaning that the actual electors from the unelected body called the electoral college, actually vote for her and she gets to win.... Then I would have picked the correct option! It's just like the Lotto! In election day you mark you Lotto ticket, then you wait for the election to be called..... meanwhile in the Lotto, they spin a wheel full of carefully balanced balls. They, the electoral college, pick the balls and show you the list of balls... Then you check your ticket and if you elected what they elected, then you won! You won! I can't believe it! I can't believe it because the electors can choose whoever they want! Yey! Democracy!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Move right to appeal to Republicans

They don't vote for you, lose anyway

Noooooo this is all Jill's fault.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Your username says Seattle but your political views are more rural Washington.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

I live there- and trust me when I say, I get second-hand embarrassment on behalf of this city from reading their rhetoric . Seattle is a lovely and very politically literate city and in no way is represented by their… ideology.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm actually voting for Jill who might as well be a Lenin for how far right Harris is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Don’t worry, I believe you.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I voted for Harris yesterday, and I’ll be voting for Harris again tomorrow. Just kidding. Turns out the dead person whose identity I stole wasn’t registered to vote. 😞

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I love how entitled to peoples votes the democrats are.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Im going to be barely better than the alternative and people will literally worship me for it. Also even though i support killing children, trump would kill more probably. Vote blue!"

Disclaimer because lemmy users are becoming more like redditors everyday:

yes trump sucks. Yes vote kamala if youre in a swing state. No, dont attack every person who points out the massive flaws in your democratic system or the "democrat" party. Because they fucking suck also. Just slightly less.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

"And we won't even support you federally and protect your rights .. Vote blue!!"

(Completely agree with your disclaimer)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Voting third party in a first past the post voting system ensures you get the candidate you want the least.

Third party is not a solution to a two party system but it does disproportionately affect democratic votes who want change and don't blindly vote. That's why it's often with Republican interests that these 3rd parties are funded in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Long term, its a solution to neither candidate supporting your values. It shows that you wont blindly support whoever is barely less bad. If your vote counts at all (which it pretty much doesbt) then you cant tell people not to vote for whoever is closest to their values. You should be telling the candidate to listen to their voters.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Understandable. I'm not arguing about the technicalities of third parties in the first past voting system. You are 100% correct.

I just don't like the entitlement. I also don't like the green party cause I only hear about and of them once every 4 years for the elections. I'm simply stating how annoying and frustrating it is to see Democrats court more centrists and trad republicans than to their core base who they take for granted in a "who else you gonna vote for removed" kinda attitude.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Thank you for revealing what you are so I can block you

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

you dont feel they are?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

No, they are showing how Trump, a person who never should be president, became the president. It shows that 3rd party voters can impact the outcome but choose not to. It doesn't have to be that way, you can make an impact.