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    3 months ago

    There are plenty of voting choices against Genocide. They just so happen to not be Democrat (or Republican).

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          3 months ago

          So your options are three people who have absolutely no chance of getting even a single electoral college vote, let alone a majority. Or in other words, to potentially feed the spoiler effect.

          Being a single issue voter doesn’t make sense at the best of times, but when it means you’re voting for someone who has no chance of winning and potentially helping an even worse candidate get into office, it’s even worse. If we had ranked-choice voting on a nationwide count, it wouldn’t be as bad (and would be fine if after you’d voted for those candidates on the one issue you actually weighed in between the major candidates), but that’s sadly not the world in which we live.

          Go ahead and vote third party if you’re in a state like Alabama where there’s no chance of a difference regardless. But in a swing state, third party votes can and do add up to lives lost.

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              3 months ago

              Well purely on the genocide topic… While both major parties appear to be okay with one genocide, only one of them appears to want to do their own genocides within the US.

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                3 months ago

                There’s a difference between doing it against foreign brown people or American brown people?

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            3 months ago

            If the percentage of third party voters gets high enough Hillary will give a very angry speech about the “radical left”.

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              3 months ago

              If the percentage of third party voters gets high enough, Trump wins. We’re not making that mistake again.

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          3 months ago

          There is no such thing as magic in this world, but if there was a magic genie that would let me bet my life that one of those people you mentioned would not be president six months from now, in exchange for a Twix ice cream bar, even if you had convinced the entirety of all lemmy federated servers to vote for them, I think I’d take it up.