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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Speaking personally as a brit i'm not going to comment on whatevers going on with the american election but in the case of britain at least im absolutely not going to be voting for Keir Starmer since most of the left neoliberals in this country telling me i have to swallow my pride and vote for the most right wing and second worst (to his "credit", unlike Tony Blair, he doesnt have the blood of a million iraqis on his hands, only 30,000 palestinians) party leader labour's had in recent memory were the exact same people 5 years ago saying they couldnt in good faith vote for the most far left, trans positive labour leader in decades because he criticised Israel which led to the largest conservative majority in years.

Under Sir Kid Starver, Labour stopped members from voting for a ceasefire right at the start of the Palestinian genocide, members have repeatedly been expelled over bogus antisemitism charges, starmerite labour's trying to push to have the NHS privatised, the party has pivoted so far to the right that you have promiment members saying “Margaret Thatcher was a visionary leader for the U.K; no doubt about it", they've proposed policies to segregate trans people out of single sex NHS hospital wards and those are just the things from the last few months or so that i remember off the top of my head.

I'm going to vote for the Greens instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't you have proportional representation over there and then the House decides the PM? Voting for a third party has a non-zero chance of being useful. Go for it, why not?

Americans voting for a third party under FPTP may as well just throw their ballot in the trash. Same difference.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Where's the white people twitter?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The lack of snide comments about the US educational system is deeply disturbing.

1,254,809 - 1,254,529 = 280

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Just remember there are people Mango who respond to every single post on the entire thread but can't handle reacting to a single counter argument to their ideas. That's why you need to vote, and if you are Mango and you try to over analyze this post and can't even see something hitting you in the face your vote wouldn't help me achieve my interests anyway. If you vote, keep doing what you are doing.

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