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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Sorry, guys. I'm voting for the only candidate that can end global warming.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Giant Meteor / Butt Stuff ‘24!

This time we’ll get it in the end!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Do you have a newsletter I can sign up for?

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where are all the Russian plants, oops I mean true progressives, at to tell us we’re just not leftist or progressive enough and Jill is totally definitely only ever trying to improve things for the country, ignoring her meeting with Putin and aides, and also Kamala is literally no different than Trump! Universalmonk, verdantbanana….i need you to straighten OP out! /s

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Jill is too mainstream, I've voting for Rachele Fruit of the Socialist Workers Party!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Vermin Supreme for Every Elected Position 2024. The one true choice.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A mandatory tooth brushing law is the most un-American bullshit I can think of.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Not the hero we deserved, but the hero we needed. Nothing less than a knight, shining...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was gonna try and write a comment 1upping you because I didn't think Rachele Fruit was a real person, but then I decided to look her up just to double-check. Nope! She's actually a real person.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She's the next President of the United States

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you only care about the duopoly or third parties every 4 years when the Presidential election rolls around, then I regret to inform you but you have fallen for a grift.

If you actually gave a shit about breaking the binary you'd be boots on the ground working to legitimatize third-parties where they're actually viable - local and smaller scale elections.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I’ve said this so many times before. Only not as succinctly.

These kids think that they can become activists only one year out of every four, and still have a chance to be the change they want to see. Time and time again, it’s been explained to them that this isn’t how shit works- and what do they do?

They delete, ban, and report everthing that tries to show them how this doesn’t work.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

The mind reels at how many properly decent and intelligent people have had their political career stillborn because all these "superior" asshole non-voters never bothered to cast ballots for School Board and City Council on up the electoral ladder.

But you see... that would require... making an effort. And we can't have that, now can we? God forbid! That would mean... soiling those pure, innocent, silky-smooth hands with actual democracy homework.

They'd always much rather sit their lazy, ignorant asses at home, lovingly yet distractedly fondling their purity, then sniffing their fingers.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe the most egregious example of this was something I saw yesterday, which was somebody saying "Tim Walz needs to go vegan". When pressed about why him and not, say, Donald Trump, they said that people on the left and center were more likely to actually be swayed. It wasn't worth engaging any further, but I thought it was pretty hilarious that they bothered to try to push the 60-year-old VP candidate to go vegan, but not the 40-year-old VP candidate. Like, you know that you're not pushing the needle for anybody with that post, right?

It's about as useless as making a post saying that JD Vance should hang dry his clothes instead of wasting energy running a clothes dryer.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Suggesting it's easier to convince a Midwestern football coach/car dad to go vegan than an NYC germaphobe is a level of optimism I have never seen

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Look pal, the general said “sow division” amongst whatever socio-political lines we can see, ok? Why Do You Hate Black Vegan Catholics???

(/s obl.)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If they spent that energy campaigning for election reform instead of harassing Lemmy users I’d find it more convincing.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

Third parties are obviously the way any intelligent person may choose to vote. This video explains why they are currently not viable in America. Ranked choice voting has to come before third parties. It's not a moral thing, it's voting math.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Gonna vote third party as soon as the Democrats and Republicans implement ranked choice voting

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

They’re not here in good faith and I don’t believe they ever were.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Discouraging 3rd party voting hurts democrats more than anyone. Studies show that 3rd party presidential candidates largely bring out people that would not have voted otherwise and largely benefit the democratic party down-ballot.

Don't tell your apolitical friend about how they shouldn't vote for Cornel. Don't tell your friend about how voting for a 3rd party is pointless. Don't tell your friend to vote for your person. Tell them to vote.

Edit: here's my receipt.

Independent voters supported Democratic candidates over Republican candidates, 49% to 47%, according to the exit poll by Edison Research for CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS. According to the AP VoteCast survey for The Wall Street Journal and Fox News, independents supported Democrats over Republicans, 42% to 38% ... While independents nationally voted for Democratic candidates by just 2 points, they supported Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly over Republican challenger Blake Masters by 16 points, Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock over Republican Herschel Walker by 11 points (in the Nov. 8 election), and, for senator from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman over Republican Mehmet Oz by a whopping 20 points. ( My note on Fetterman, this was before the stroke)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

And from a casual perspective, telling people their vote is pointless is (a) a way to show them you're an asshole, (b) mostly pointless, and (c) quite possibly true regardless of how they vote.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

ITT: people skipping over the 39 days bit. Time and place. Let's save the Republic then we work on everything else.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Where’s that universalmonk blyat?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

You can’t call any of them by name, unlike Beetlejuice. You have to post something positive, even mildly so, about the Harris/Walz campaign. Then all the little rats come scurrying over to tell you how you’re a genocide stan and any real American should be voting for Cornoliverill Stein de la Fruit, and it’s definitely not because daddy Putin said so.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I broke the script the other day when they said they were ok with a trump second term. That they weren't afraid of trump. I highlighted the conservative judicial appointments impact the working class and minority groups and they simply couldn't address it.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

look i have had the choice for with or without lube for half a century now. Thing is saying I don't want to get sodomized at all just results in the default of without lube. I hate it with lube but I really, really hate it without.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What does MRW mean? I'm old.

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