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A third party has literally no chance to win in our system, and nobody gives a single fuck about the miniscule amount of votes they do get - you're not moving any metrics, or sending any messages, or taking any stands. All you're doing is helping the worse option win.
So, if you truly hate Palestinians, then by all means vote Stein. If you want to see Ukraine taken over, then please vote Stein. If you want to see our country start murdering every version of queer people, then you really should vote Stein. That's all you're going to get for it.
Whether you like to see the truth or not, a vote for a third party is still a vote for genocide.
If that's true then why do you care? It's a miniscule amount that's not moving anything.
Let's build some towers out of blocks and see whose is biggest!
The Dem tower is 48 blocks tall. The GOP Tower is 49 blocks tall. The 3rd party tower is 3 blocks tall. That 3 block tower isn't enough to win, but if they stacked onto the Dem tower, that's the difference between 4 years of status quo and 4 years of fascism.
Aren't there other blocks that could be stacked on the Dem tower?
Where?
At the undecided pile.
That's the 3 blocks
The Green votes are as much votes—i.e. are as decided—as the Democrat and Republican votes.
The undecided pile has 10s of blocks.
The undecided voters who keep finding reasons that the appeasement isn't good enough?
I suppose for some of them, yes.
Most of the ones I've interacted with.