• Donebrach@lemmy.world
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    “And that’s why we don’t ever run any candidates for any office in any of the myriad municipalities, counties, states or congress of the US. That’s how we make change, by only running spoiler presidential candidates in like 3 states.”

    Edit: funny all the upvotes came during US waking hours and now that foreign agents are logging in this is getting downvoted.

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    Yes, the US has to fix the election system, making it possible to vote on other options that the duopoly without effectively voting against the lesser of two evils. And that won’t happen with a fascist in charge.

  • suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml
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    “The danger of Trump is real and I don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of stopping him. I’m still going to steal as many votes as I can from the only candidate that can beat him anyway, solely to make an ideological point. Please don’t acknowledge how this obviously helps him win.”

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      21 hours ago

      Then your party should have run a better candidate, Did liberals not learn a thing from 2016?

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        13 hours ago

        I hope that obstinate pleasure tastes as sweet when the new Secretary of of Education goes back to burying people with their student loans instead working to find relief for them. And the Administrator of the EPA decides that forever chemicals in our water don’t need to be regulated. And the new Secretary of Labor decides union busting ought to be protected by the first amendment. And the Secretary of Energy decides wind and solar are the problem actually and natural gas is the future. And the Director of National Intelligence decides the National Socialist Database would pair nicely with the National Trans Identification Registry. Or when the 2-3 fresh, young faces on the supreme court establish fetal personhood. And overturn Obergefell. and Lawrence. and Loving.

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        14 hours ago

        Obviously you learned nothing.

        Socialists failed to get the vote out for Bernie, even when they knew it would be an uphill fight.

        Now they are failing again.

        I wish I had the privilege of being safe enough not to have to worry about Trump deputizing a bunch of Red Hats and doing mass arrests.