• heartSagan5@lemmy.zip
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    19 hours ago

    Sure, split the vote so the other side is assured a win, brilliant 🫩 If those Jill Stein dummies weren’t a thing, Dump would have one less term.

    I will only choose another color, if we get ranked-choice voting.

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      6 hours ago

      Please name a single state that would have flipped if all Green or Libertarian, the actual big 3rd party votes for Democrats.

      Here, I’ll even give you 2016, 2020, and 2024 to pick from. That’s a lot of data, surely you’ll find one state.

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      18 hours ago

      Third party voters did not decide either of the elections that Trump won. That’s a lie the establishment Dems cooked up to obfuscate their responsibility for Trump, and there data absolutely does not support it.

      But decades of bioartisan Neoliberal austerity policy did suppress turnout. Probably enough to affect the outcome, but that’s not something anybody measures since nobody with the money to find the study actually wants to know.

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      19 hours ago

      Sure, let’s play the puppet game. Shit if you can’t realize atleast some of the responsibility lays on dems side. Just look at it like this, they didn’t engage with red states, they didn’t engage with red areas, they didn’t push strong candidates, they allow corruption on their side aswell, they half ass so many policies, and dropped the ball in alot of aspects like no child left behind (not saying to abandon kids, just freaking want a program that doesn’t screw the majority of kids learning).

      With all that, don’t get me wrong I despise trump and republicans. However the reality is this happened due to one side actually being proactive in their strategy. The democratic party isn’t proactive. Kamala was a bad pick purely due to lack of popularity, which could’ve been addressed by decisive engagement. But NO they’re thinking about their retirement and stock portfolios. Or they’re just straight up to old to do that much.