JackiesFridge

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[–] JackiesFridge 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Their vote puts a dictator in place and Harris is the bad guy for not stroking their egos enough? Gotcha.

[–] JackiesFridge 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah watching the Dems is painful AF. They get real close to GETTING it and then fall back into their political safe zone. The 3rd party voters might not have the numbers, but they have good ideas for the future of the country that need to be considered.

We need more Bernies & AOCs on the inside to pull dems back (at least) toward centre and make them understand that 3rd party voters have some great ideas for bringing positive change and equity. Even if the Dems can't fully embrace them, let's nudge the needle back toward progress by paying attention to them. The Dems might do. The GOP won't. So if there are only two viable parties in the presidential (and congressional) race there's a clear choice if anyone really wants the opportunity to (frustratingly slowly) change anything for the better.

I always say it's easier to shame dems into doing the right thing. The GOP have no shame to leverage.

[–] JackiesFridge 10 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Nope. Stein voters are lost voters. The Harris campaign will ignore them and move on. There is no message being broadcast or received during this election. Voting for a party that can only help install the worse of two evils is 100% a move of immense privilege, not a moral high ground.

They have the power to put a dictator in place by leveraging people who don't understand the primaries are for your ideals and the main election is for strategy. Until we get ranked-choice voting (and we won't) your moral posturing does the opposite of what you think. In reality anyway.

[–] JackiesFridge 18 points 2 months ago (17 children)

The Green party is already irrelevant. Their only power is siphoning away votes every 4 years. If they actually wanted to affect political change, they would establish a broad presence in local politics, establish a voting and policy record, and build a third party that's actually viable as their local candidates advance to the national stage.

That takes a lot of time and a tonne of effort, though. Apparently it's just easier taking money from Putin to gum up a presidential election.

[–] JackiesFridge 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Going to add as well that the only party that might actually change those policies will be the dems, since the GOP SUPER won't, and the green party has zero chance of gaining any power.

[–] JackiesFridge 95 points 2 months ago (21 children)

Padme: So they're going to cancel his defense contract, right?

[–] JackiesFridge 2 points 2 months ago

I use a Kaweco Sport as my daily driver.

Bonus: Nobody ever "borrows" it at work because it confuses and terrifies them.

[–] JackiesFridge 8 points 2 months ago
[–] JackiesFridge 12 points 2 months ago

Maybe Canada, but the US is ruining them too

[–] JackiesFridge 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The legal problems he brought upon himself? By actively and blatantly criming? Boy that must suck for him.

[–] JackiesFridge 2 points 2 months ago

OMG well that kills my dumb little joke then. I'm not deleting it, so hopefully other people who didn't know about this will find your reply.

I'm not sure if it's more awful because it's innately horrible or because it's that fn believable.

[–] JackiesFridge 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You know she watched the debate. And got more pleasure from that than anything he ever did, second only to getting a hush money check from him.

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