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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/politicalmemes
 

no one fucking told me about states banning RCV during all that yapping on here about how i should VOTE THIRD PARTY OR ELSE IM COMPLICIT in the DNCs CRIMES

it may or may not be joever, very blackpilled at this moment

edit it’s actually 10 states. 5 in the past two months.

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[–] PeggyLouBaldwin 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

that video illustrates the problem with strategic voting: it consolidates parties. the lesson you sohuld learn from it is that strategic voting is actually voting against your own interest.

[–] nek0d3r 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Without a better voting system, there's not really much choice otherwise. Voting third party requires a majority of voters to not only know the downsides of the system and style of voting, but also to trust that the rest of that majority are going to both know and act on that before they act that way themselves. Otherwise it would just be contributing to the spoiler effect. It would be like trying to pause a game of Fortnite, or convincing states to cast electoral votes according to the national popular vote without, I don't know, some sort of National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

[–] PeggyLouBaldwin 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

if the choice is blue fascists or red fascists, it's no choice at all.

[–] nek0d3r 1 points 5 months ago

I'm afraid to tell you that you're right

[–] Shardikprime -2 points 5 months ago

This. Thinking that strategic way got them into this mess in the first place