• barsquid@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        No, she won’t. And hopefully I voted for viable candidates down the sheet because I’ll have lost that vote.

        She’ll be president if enough voters to overwhelm the EC’s red shift vote for her. Which will not happen with FPTP. There are 46 examples of this not happening over a couple hundred of years. Including her, specifically, in 2012 and 2016.

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      5 months ago

      you literally accused people who said they want Jill Stein to win of lying and actually wanting another candidate to win. that’s bad faith.

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        5 months ago

        They do. They know she doesn’t have a chance. So they are using their vote to say, “I don’t give a fuck if we have the current amount of genocide or even more. I don’t give a fuck about Ukraine. I don’t give a fuck about women’s rights or SCOTUS accepting bribes and flying traitor flags. I don’t give a fuck about insurrection. I don’t give a fuck about the crime and corruption of the Repubs.”

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            5 months ago

            No, they don’t care who wins because they are privileged and think it won’t affect them. No third party has ever come close to winning in the history of the country. It will not happen. So they are expressing that they’re okay if it gets worse.

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              5 months ago

              No, they don’t care who wins because they are privileged and think it won’t affect them.

              another bad faith statement. you need to ask them what they want, and believe their answer, or dialogue cannot progress.

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                5 months ago

                Your (and their) arguments may not be in bad faith, but they are in conflict with objective reality.

                They either believe Jill Stein will actually win, which is false based on all of US history, including the elections she already participated in.

                Or they believe there is literally no difference for, say, women, when 1/3 of SCOTUS are religious extremists appointed by an insurrectionist. Or on climate. Or Ukraine. Or voting rights. Etc. The question “is a president allowed to break the law and do whatever” is somehow still open. Is that not completely insane?

                I understand what they claim they are doing with the protest vote. But in actuality, they have looked at the difference and decided that it isn’t much. That can only come from a position of privilege or extreme ignorance.

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                  5 months ago

                  They either believe Jill Stein will actually win … Or… they have looked at the difference and decided that it isn’t much

                  this is still putting words in their mouths. it’s not good-faith engagement.

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                    5 months ago

                    No, that’s reality.

                    The other case I also pointed out is they might be unaware of the facts. You are engaging in bad faith by misrepresenting my words to form a what you think is a strawman to argue against.