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I'm not at all angry. Like you, I call out bullshit when I see it.
Dude. That's not a "remember when" thing - that's a today thing.
That's what spoilers do: they siphon votes from one party. Sometimes the leaders are puppets, sometimes they're aware of what they're doing but don't care; I don't know which I think it's worse, but I have a hard time believing that any national level party leader is ignorant of their impact on US elections, for which I hold them culpable.
K, now you're being ironic. Because that's me. I'm the one who consistently responds to your posts. I have a small hope that someone who might be teetering on voting Green will give a hard think, look at history, and change their minds.
And, look: I want people to be able to vote for other parties. I've voted Green before. But first we have to fix the election system in the US to reduce the Spoiler Effect, as we're doing at the state level with initiatives like the Minnesota RCV effort. Until we get there, though, voting for a third party is only supporting the greater of two evils - whichever party you don't want to win. Remember, the last time any third party won aUS presidential election was 1861.
You don't, though; you explicitly and consistently advocate for Jill Stein. If I gathered a list of all your posts criticizing Biden, Kamala, and Trump, what do you think the pie chart would look like?
This is absolutely true, and it's why they oppose Ranked Choice and Approval Voting (the two most popular alternative voting efforts in the US) initiatives.
Efforts to replace FPTP need our support. Third parties for the Presidency do not. Third parties in Congress, I'm all for; we could do with more pressure to build coalitions in the legislative branch.
You should ask this guy why he’s pushing the Green Party nominee, aka the pro-environmental policy nominee, despite indicating in other threads that he doesn’t care if Trump wins, aka the anti-environmental policy nominee.
I asked him that, then he started accusing me of bullying him and blocked me.
It’s almost amusing how you cling to the idea that supporting a third party somehow makes me a puppet for Trump.
The fact that you and others are so quick to point fingers at people like me—who dare to challenge the corrupt duopoly—only shows how deep the fear runs among those who defend the status quo.
Your so-called "spoiler effect" is just a convenient excuse to maintain the stranglehold of two parties that have failed us for generations.
I’ll keep advocating for real alternatives, whether you like it or not, because real change doesn’t come from playing it safe within a broken system.
Yeah, and make that pie chart you are talking about with my posts. And also add in there who many posts I make about socialists.
As I have noted before, the vast majority of my posts are for workers rights, socialist causes, union issues, and education. I've contributed over 200 posts and comments to the Lemmy socialist community I created and that I mod. I'm a member of the Socialist Workers Party, and I support them financially. You can check out the sub here:
https://lemmy.world/c/socialist
and see my post history here:
https://lemmy.world/u/UniversalMonk?page=1&sort=New&view=Posts.