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They're been quiet for seventy days now.

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"Hey, let's vote for a candidate who literally cannot win from a party that hasn't done the necessary work to become nationally viable because I don't want to be part of the two party problem even though if we do so it will guarantee that a felon rapist who incited an insurrection, stripped women of a human right, and illegally attempted to overturn an election will win." - Dipshit 3rd Party Voters
Just as stupid as Trump supporters, as far as I'm concerned.
Well, they got what we told them they'd be getting. Why aren't they celebrating?
- But you're SUPPORTING GENOCIDE when you vote for the candidate most likely to get the fewest people killed! While the people of Palestine are about to be annihilated, my own right to marry is about to be taken away, and all of my trans friends are going to lose access to the drugs that keep them from killing themselves, I can rest easy knowing that I didn't engage with the system at all
  
  Absolutely tremendous brain energy
  
  I simply voted for the person opposed to genocide. This isn't actually a democracy, so it's not like my vote mattered anyways.
  
  So instead of the most reasonable candidate that has a chance of winning, you voted for someone else who had no chance of winning?
  Thanks for making everything worse.
  
  Who'd you vote for?
  
  I voted PSL. I'm in a state where it was completely inconsequential.
  
  Excellent
  
  I simply voted for the person opposed to genocide.
  Single issue voters = duuuuuuuumb.
  This isn’t actually a democracy, so it’s not like my vote mattered anyways.
  People who say "voting doesn't matter" = duuuuuuuuumb.
  
  Genocide trumps all other "issues". If you are willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands to millions of innocents to annihilation, your "stances" on every other issue are hollow rhetoric meant for your own advancement, and the difference of having you in power over anyone else is microscopic. Not understanding that genocide means a politician is pure evil is the fucking pinnacle of "dumb".
  
  I am willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands to save millions. You're willing to sacrifice millions to say you kept your hands clean. Don't act like you're the morally correct one.
  
  Well said.
  
  I am not willing to sacrifice anyone. Were it not for people like you, no one would be sacrificed at all. You have no vision for a way out of perpetual war and subjugation, rather, you condemn the rest of us to it.
  
  Were it not for people like me, Trump would still have been elected. Were it not for people like you, an alternative may have had a chance.
  
  No, people like you willing to sacrifice others are those who voted for both Harris and for Trump.
  
  Do you genuinely believe the situation for Palestine is going to be equally bad under Trump as it would under Harris?
  Did anyone see what his response was? I really wanna know if he acknowledged how much worse Trump is
  
  Not mathematically equal. Not down to ten decimal places. Nearly identical? Yes.
  
  I am not willing to sacrifice anyone.
  But you did anyway when you threw away your vote.
  
  If you think the death of people matters then why wasn't the climate your big issue? That will definitely kill millions (predictions on current path are that it will kill or displace over a billion). Don't get all high and mighty about your issue when it's not even close to being the biggest one
  
  You will find the same acquiescence to the fossil fuel industry across the aisle as well. In actions, not in speech.
  
  How compelling.
- Thanks for helping Trump win! Palestine is so saved. This whole thing wasn't about you feeling morally superior at all.
- “Hey, let’s vote for a candidate who literally cannot win from a party that hasn’t done the necessary work to become nationally viable because I don’t want to be part of the two party problem even though if we do so it will guarantee that a felon rapist who incited an insurrection, stripped women of a human right, and illegally attempted to overturn an election will win.” - Dipshit 3rd Party Voters
  I tell them this every time, but they act like I'M the problem.
  
  Don't tell them they're taking the wrong action, tell them they're taking the right action at the wrong time.
  The key to getting more 3rd party support is to start 4 years ago, right after the last major election. The second best time to start is today, right after a major election. The WORST time to start supporting a third party candidate is right before a major election in a swing state with no party presence. Tell them to get to work. They won't get to be another major party, and they won't change the electoral system, but they can scare a major party into adopting one, maybe two of their policy positions. Sorry but that's just the best you can hope for if you're trying to change the system by voting.
  
  Don’t tell them they’re taking the wrong action, tell them they’re taking the right action at the wrong time.
  I do. All the time.
  I cannot express to you how many times before the election I typed comments explaining that it makes sense for them to vote 3rd party in local/state elections, but not in presidential elections now or in the foreseeable future. It takes time and a lot of effort.
  They don't care. It's like talking to a brick wall. They want what they want and they want it now and if they don't get it then we get to have an anti-democratic felon rapist as president.
  They're effectively children and now that we have an anti-democratic felon rapist as our president I'm done being nice to them.
  
  If your actions aren't directly helping to prevent Republicans gaining control, then you're part of the problem
  
  They're children that can't grasp that you can't just cheat code your way to a 3rd party president. Work actually has to be done over a long period of time before that reality becomes possible.
  But children don't have patience.
  
  Angsty teens who think they're the only ones angry enough to change the world.
  Angtsy teens who don't realize the adults are angry too, we're just used to these painful truths.
  
  "We've given up on real change and accepted the fake change the system literally manufactures to pacify us, that's part of growing up and how the world really works"
  
  Kinda proving my point aren't ya?

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