• Glytch@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Orange man bad was more then enough to pick a rock with a smiley face on it as alternative

    It’s a logical argument and it’s a correct argument. Unfortunately it’s demonstrably not an effective argument, especially when it’s all you’re doing. The same thing happened in 2016 with Clinton thinking she was owed votes because Trump would be (and was, and will be again) a disaster for the US. Yet they still went with the same strategy anyway.

    I say this as someone who did make the “correct” choice of voting blue despite my moral objections to a lot of what she was saying. We will now all see the consequences of only barely trying to win an election against fascists.

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      13 hours ago

      I am aligned with you here. Well put.

      To be clear, I have no love for the dnc or their strategies. I am not championing them as a model. Other commenters seem to think I’m simping for “blue maga” or some other shit.

      I’ve consistently argued for harm reduction in a limited outcome system.

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        9 hours ago

        I agree with the harm reduction strategy, but I also understand people being apathetic with the choices they’re presented.

        Of course this means people should be more active and now is the time to start really pushing for ranked choice voting so we can maybe do something about the dominance of the two-party system.

        Screw trying to convince Democrats they need to start looking left. Force them to with the threat of new, actually progressive, parties.

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          7 hours ago

          Bro you do words real good. Your closing statement is gold.

          Imo that work to build candidates start right now, and to circle back my issue with third party voices, they are crickets until right before he election