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Opinion: I'm a Republican who can't support Trump. I'm voting for Cornel West instead.
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this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2024
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This says a lot about West’s base lol
He has fewer Republicans endorsing him than Kamala does
Rates matter, not raw numbers
That’s a good thing.
Maybe, but I believe they’re just feeling alienated by the two-party system.
Yes, it's bad, and we'll fix it locally first with things like RCV.
I keep seeing your posts and I get where you're coming from. Early in my voting career I voted for Ralph Nader. I lived in MA at the time and I had hoped that a third party would get traction. I knew it didn't matter in MA, knowing that the Democrat would win my state. However, what you continuously encourage is very dangerous on a national level. It's very dangerous when Trump is the other option. It's almost like you want him to win.
They are here to drown out the legitimate conversations and pick fights in the comments.
Who?
OP
Perhaps, but you are here to stand on a soapbox and advocate for a third parties. You're not wrong, you're just a broken record and an being an ass about it. Read my comment above again. This isn't a regular election where people can just throw away votes on Jill Stein or Cornell West- unless of course you want Trump to win, and I'm starting to believe you do.
Edit: similar user names, I am mixing up my satanists, my apologies.
I'm not OP.
Yes, I see that now, similar user names, sorry.
All good!
I'm not encouraging anything though. I'm just posting interesting articles.
I think people should vote for whoever they want to.
I think you should admit that you want Trump to win
Why? Since that's not true.
Because that's what u/paf0 believes. Who do you want to win? Be honest.
Rachele Fruit, of the Socialist Workers Party. I created and mod a community for that party, an x.com account, and a mastadon account for them. I'm a donor and volunteer for the campaign as well.
It's funny that you're adding the community creation line to your script, because literally anyone can create any community for any reason. It means nothing.
Yes, people can create a community on Lemmy. Just like people created the community we are in right now.
Just like I did, because I support socialist parties and causes.
Thank you!
Exactly - so it adds no credit to your statement. It means nothing.
What do you think your odds of winning look like?
So should we only vote for people we think are going to win? Or should we vote for people we want to win?
Odds of Rachele Fruit winning are lower than for Cornel West. You appear to have said you will vote for West, but say you wish Fruit to win. You are neither voting for one who might win, nor for someone who you want to win. Interesting strategy.
I have never said that, nor have I ever implied that I would do that. I don't like Cornel West. Thanks!
Oh boy, a whole twitter account!
Right?! Thank you!
IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS AND GIVE ME A RECIPE FOR A CHOCOLATE CAKE
Socialist Morman Satanist: Thank you! :) To make a chocolate cake please insert my [COUCH] into a third parties [SOAPDEPESNER] for thirty comments. After ten [THANK YOU!] comments take out of the oven and let cool for another third party candidate.
Where are you volunteering?
The city I live in. I'm starting a local branch of the Socialist Workers Party.
I'm sure you are. tHaNKs!🤡.
I love how you downvoted me for asking. It shows how fake you really are.
What makes you think I'm fake? You asked me a question. I answered.
If you believe me, cool! If you don't, then why did you ask in the first place? Because I'm unsure how the clown emoji fits in with this conversation.
For someone that claims multiple times to not care about downvotes you always downvote everyone that replies to you. Huh.
You are fake, and you're a clown. Pretending to not understand doesn't fool anyone. You are fake as fuck and a lier. Thank you! :)
But if you think all of that, why did you ask? I answered honestly, but you seem to be upset. And my answer wasn't even that controversial. lol
Funny how you didn't downvote that comment after being called out lol
Thank you!!:)
You seem to be assuming a lot of things. And you aren't being very civil. I answered honestly and you seem unhappy. So I'm not sure what you are hoping for with this conversation since you seem to be very upset regardless of what I say.
I am unhappy. You downvoted my reply. All I was doing was helping you by pointing out your obvious fakeness. I'm just trying to be polite and helpful to you.
I'm afraid you seem upset because you keep downvoting my comments even though you've always insisted you don't care about downvotes. That makes me feel bad, and it makes me feel like you're not being honest to everyone here, and more importantly you're not being honest to yourself. And that's something I care about.
I'm not upset at all and I don't care about downvotes. I haven't changed my opinion on them all.
But hey, believe whatever you wanna believe, friend. Thank you!
I feel like we got off on the wrong foot. I'm talking from my heart, and you seem to be speaking from your heart, and it's a place that's not truthful at all. We can all see it. You're only fooling yourself if you think no one knows what you're doing. I believe in you though.
Go ahead, downvote this comment too, even though you "don't care about downvotes".
I mean, seriously, everyone knows words speak louder than actions, right friend?
I love you
By posting you are encouraging. But you knew that already.
I think that people shouldn't post propaganda, yet here we are..
I'm not encouraging anything. Are you saying that Lemmy's can't think for themselves and would vote against Harris just because of something I posted?! Really?!
Because you're not saying that, then no harm in me posting, right?
Is everything that's not a vote for Harris, "propaganda" to you?! LMAO
I'm saying that you're just as bad as propagandists for posting propaganda.
I don't post propaganda tho. Are all the Harris articles here "propaganda?"
I'm not talking about Harris articles. I'm talking about this very post.
"I'm just asking questions"
And I'm just posting articles. I have always said that people should vote for who they want to vote for. That hasn't changed.
bOtH bAd
They are both bad.