jhymesba

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[–] jhymesba 3 points 3 months ago

Why? Al Gore and Richard Nixon both certified their losses, while Bush-41 certified his victory, and every year that the incumbent ticket wins is a year that the VP certifies their victory as VP. What's so different now? Frankly, nothing.

[–] jhymesba 1 points 3 months ago

Give it a try and see if the mods let it stand. That's the only way to be sure. And don't expect consistency. After all, this is a part of the rules:

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

[–] jhymesba 29 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Dear reader, when you read OP's posts, take the time to look at the upvote to downvote percentage. This poster is going out of its way to bash Democrats, and while we can't say why that is (thanks mods!!!), we CAN say that there is a concerted effort by Republicans, Russians, right-wing trolls, and other authoritarians to throw this election to Trump to establish authoritarianism here. Keep that in mind as you read these articles from this poster.

[–] jhymesba 10 points 3 months ago (6 children)

And gets downvoted by ridiculous measures, which I'm glad for.

[–] jhymesba 34 points 3 months ago

Hopefully most, if not all, of those 64k unaffiliated voters mark Harris and Trump needs FAR more than 12k votes to steal it.

[–] jhymesba 40 points 3 months ago

Absolutely. Carter is an inspiration. Trump is an attention-seeking asshole.

[–] jhymesba 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah. My first vote was for Bill Clinton in '92. I voted for him again in '96. I saw no difference between Gore and Bush and didn't vote in 2000. We got the utter shitshow that was Bush 43, but even then I still voted third party in some elections.

No more. Team Red is now Team Fascist, and either Red or Blue will be in office unless and until Team Green or Team Yellow or whatever you got can take more than half of their political ideology's votes.

That's the real problem here. Third Parties cap out at 10% of the total vote, or about 20% of their ideologies' parties vote share. They can't win THIS party's primaries. How can I expect them to win the country?

[–] jhymesba 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

A couple of points I'd add to this:

  1. Trump is a symptom, not the cause. Put another way, should Trump choke on an overcooked steak tomorrow and die, the threat won't be ended. The cancer is the entire GQP, not just its leader.

  2. Americans as a whole have a desire for authoritarianism. 'Make those bad people behave the way I want them to' is endemic in American culture.

  3. Not only can it happen here, it has, twice, and damn near took our Democracy down with it both times.

[–] jhymesba 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Could be, though I'd question the prolificness. I guess that's why the mods come down on us so hard. You can't be certain of anything because...well, there ARE Russian bot-farms, Trumpers (even teams of them operating in tandem), and of course True Believers (tm), and short of catching the guy in the act and examining his rig, you can't be sure what you're dealing with. That said, IMO, there's not really a huge difference between them when it comes to debunking them. A vote for a third party is a vote for the major party most opposed to your third party in the USA. At least until we get RCV in more places!

[–] jhymesba 4 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Heh, I'll leave it to you then. I'll point out the flaws in this poster's logic as I can, but really....with how prolific it is (can't say it's a bot, can't say it's a bot...), that'd be a fucking full-time job.

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