this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2024
634 points (73.6% liked)

Political Memes

5612 readers
886 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

Be civilJokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is that based on the assumption third party voters would vote democrat otherwise? If I would either not vote or vote third party, how does my vote help trump?

Maybe the democrats shouldnt count votes they don't have?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because under FPTP no vote or a third party vote is identical to a vote for the opposing candidate.

Maybe you should stop trying to justify being a fucking traitor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

So just saying that out loud makes it true, got it. You've convinced me I'm wrong.

[–] positiveWHAT 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When the options are democracy or dictatorship and you choose not to vote... it's kinda gross. I get that you got a failure of a system over there, but the fight to update your democracy should be done after you choose to have one.

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

It depends where you live. In my very local area my vote counts, and so it goes to democrats. If you are in a republican state, I can't think of anything better than Democrats coming in third place there. If the democrats had a bigger third party to worry about they'd start having to move left or at least stop moving right to win voters.

[–] positiveWHAT 1 points 2 months ago

That 3. party better be Election Reform.