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Your lesser evil over 50 years has grown to an uncontrollably large evil (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (9 children)

Ok then, so what's your solution? I'm still gonna vote for the lesser evil, while still organizing and doing direct action, to reduce harm unless presented with an alternative.

Maybe a candidate that's good? You could run for an office.

Edit: essentially I mean for the situation at hand, especially with this upcoming election, what else can we do?

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  • [–] 0 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    You just keep doing what the bumper sticker says, obviously. You vote for the red and they hit you and rob you, vote for the blue and they rob you nicely.

    How is this hard for people?

    Republicans do what they want and the Democrats ask us to vote for them a little harder and, eventually, they will be able to do something, as long as precedent isn't broken, as long as it's the "high road", as long as it's not something the parliamentarian can override, etc...

    currently,

    -hakeem is secretly meeting with kushner. He is also taking Thiel money and setup and AI "regulations committee" with other Dems who take Thiel money.

    -AIPAC Dems are funding AIPAC Republicans over actual left candidates

    -tammy duckworth says that we shouldnt impeach and should work WITH the traitornazirapistpedophilicwarcriminals.

    Can you please explain to me how voting for the "lesser" evil is helpful?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago (5 children)

    The solution is Ranked Choice Voting. Anyone can run and voters rank all the candidates. So if you put Stein (for example) first and she doesn't get enough votes, your vote then goes to your second choice, and so on. It lets you vote the way you really want it to go, not just strategically.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Ranked choice/instant runoff voting is not doing a lot for Australia. The "left" major party is centrist at best, the "right" major party is drifting further right and the only minor party of note is basically Nazis.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    Lab moved right because every single left wing policy they took to the polls got fucking libs voted in. When your public votes in fucking scott morrison by choice you know you're fucked and act accordingly

    You remember Gillard's misogyny speech? Great times. The next year we voted the subject and target of that speech as PM.

    Don't fucking sook about parties going right wing when that's how people vote

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  • [–] 0 points 5 hours ago

    Ranked choice voting as a topic comes up every 2-4 years. Then no one does anything about it after the election is over.

    If you want it so bad, do whatever you can to keep the conversation going between elections.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 hours ago*

    Ok, maybe I wasn't clear, so I apologize, I'm talking about the situation as it is, like with this election.

    Edit: I think maybe getting people to run who will change things for racked choice voting is a good strategy long term, and we could and should work for that

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