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It's not bullying, it's simple math. Harris wins or Trump wins. Harris isn't perfect, but Trump is unacceptable. Voting for neither is a choice, but it's choice that says you don't care which one wins. You don't care if a fascist bigot who wants to abuse his power to control women and line his pockets wins the election. Anyone that's OK with that is either themselves a fascist bigot who wants Project 2025, or they're stupid.
So saying you don't care if Trump wins tells me you might be a fascist bigot, or you might be stupid. If you're just stupid, that's fine, vote your conscience. But if you're a fascist bigot pretending, you might as well admit it to the world and admit you're supporting Trump.
Either way, it's not a persuasive argument to make anyone think you have anything of value to say.
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Voting is always an act of harm reduction. Choosing to vote for a non-viable option or not vote is a statement that neither you nor those you care about (in life or the abstract) are in minimal risk of harm or you don’t care about the harm they may undergo.
That’s either privilege or sociopathy.
I did neither, in fact I don’t even respond to your comment where you might think I was responding directly to you.
Considering any third party is viable in the system as it exists today, make as much sense as playing Chess using the rules from Candy Land. It’s delusional and detached from reality.
It’s an unfortunate mathematical truth and no amount of wishing it otherwise will change that. That’s why for any non-primary election, it must be treated as harm reduction above all.
How election math works: a vote for Harris is taking a vote away from a third party candidate and is giving it to Trump.
I’ll leave this here in hopes you’ll watch it. There is no way for what you’re hoping to actually succeed in the current environment. The only way out is through and the only way through is voting as harm reduction.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
1, voting is not harm reduction, and 2, that video has given you a false conclusion. the lesson we should learn is that strategic voting leads to party consolidation, and the only way to keep third parties is to continue to vote for them.
harm reduction is a specific thing. voting is not harm reduction.
Unless you care about truth in which case it absolutely is harm reduction
harm reduction has a specific definition. voting is not harm reduction.
Not really interested in your pedantry that probably isn't even technically correct (not that it matters)
https://www.indigenousaction.org/voting-is-not-harm-reduction-an-indigenous-perspective/
The url itself says it's talking about a specific context that has nothing to do with this.
I can't make you read
and I can't make you stop propping up horrific voting practices
I'm voting third party. I don't care what you think. Thank you!
Hasn't changed who I am voting for. Thank you!
So what are your guys's weekend plans?
Some light shitposting?
Not sure what you mean? Guys? Who is it you are talking to?
We don't need to give you reasons who we're talking to.
And I don't have to explain anything to you. See how that works?
Apparently you dont.
Because I don't have to explain anything to you. :)
Now you're bullying and pressuring me. Reported to the mods.
I'm bullying and pressuring you because I told you I don't have anything to explain to you? lolololol Ok, well report away. I'm fine with the mods here, so you do what you feel you have to do. Thank you!
In the fifty days (Congrats!) since this account was created, it's made three thousand nine hundred and eleven submissions to Lemmy.
That's one every eighteen minutes and twenty-five seconds twenty-four hours a day seven days a week!
Numbers are really clear. When we can't call a spade a spade, just point out the inhuman posting speed and let people come to their own conclusions...
Thanks for saying that I have inhuman posting speed! Now I feel important!! Thank you! :)
In the 447 days that the @SatansMaggotyCumFart account has been active, it has made over eight thousand two hundred and ten submissions to Lemmy, which is on average eighteen posts every single day!
What can I say, I'm only one person.
Me too.
Looks like you have some catching up to do. You may have to dig a bit harder for articles to post after the election.
Well since most of the articles I post are about socialist causes, I'll still have plenty to post. Thank you!
Did you say that you’re two?
You don't understand the difference between "too" and "two"? Wow. Ok, then.
Hi UM. I appreciate your investment in our cause but could you please refrain from initmidating users over their grammar? We can win this election, but we have to be decent people. -Jill
I'm not sure who you are quoting. Which "Jill" are you speaking about?
You know.
I have dreams about you whispering my name.
One of us begat the other.
Actually I don't. Do you have a link to that quote? Because I am unfamiliar with it.
This poster gets SOOO close to making an observation that would utterly destroy its half-baked, IMO inauthentic reasoning, if it'd only take a closer look at what it's saying. So, I'll close the gap here.
Suppose we could wave our magic wand and get everyone to agree with this poster, getting everyone who is voting Kamala Harris today to vote for ... Rachele Fruit. But the price of this vote is that everyone who WAS voting Rachele Fruit now has to vote Kamala Harris. Suddenly, it's Harris who is spoiling the vote for Fruit...and Jill Stein remains as much as spoiler for Fruit in this magic universe as she is for Harris in this real one. That's the problem with third parties. No matter how the votes line up, whether it be for the Social Workers Party in this parallel universe or the Democrats in this one, votes for Third Parties merely harm your political ideology by taking away votes from the major party on your side of the political aisle and empower the major party most opposite of your ideology. You'd have to go to another parallel where we made Ranked Choice voting work before you could risk a SWP vote in a Rep-Dem world or a Dem vote in a Rep-SWP world.
SOOOO close, yet so far away.
I don't care. I am happily voting third-party. Even if you don't like it. Thank you! :)