• bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    If you’re getting convinced by anti-green rhetoric, I don’t blame you. The greens are pretty bad.

    You can always vote for the party for socialism and liberation instead. They’re running de la Cruz on a platform of Palestinian statehood and an end to arms shipments to israel.

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      52 minutes ago

      Or don’t vote against your own interests by voting third party. Because First Past the Post means that any third party is going to act as a Spoiler, siphoning votes away from the major party that is ideologically closest to the Spoiler.

      What you should do is hold your nose and vote against the literal fascist.

      Then on November 10th or so (for incumbents that win) and Jan 10th or so (for the newly elected), start writing actual letters to your congressmen, Call them, email, seek them out in person at meet and greets, and push for voting reform.

      Now, the temptation will be to advocate for RCV. This is the wrong move as well. RCV is inherently broken and can actually produce worse results than First Past the Post, while also having some diehard fans who promise the fucking moon. No, if you want third parties to have any chance at all of growing and possibly winning, you need to advocate for Approval or STAR.

      So remember, start pushing voting reform the second we kick the fascist to the curb. Push on day one of the new session, and keep pushing. Do the work ahead of time, and maybe, we can revisit the third party issue in the future.

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        21 minutes ago

        No.

        I haven’t held my nose for a democrat for going on fourteen years and I’m not going to start now.

        I’m politically active far beyond voting and have spoken face to face with several representatives. They don’t care or listen.

        No amount of voting reform will fix the fundamentally unjust American political system.

        I have been doing the work and will continue to do so. Voting for PSL in this election is part of that work.

        If you’re reading this, don’t fall for the “oh if only we had star or ranked choice” fiddlefarting around the edges garbage. We live in under a fundamentally unjust political system and especially when both major parties are advocating in support of genocide there is no reasonable argument for performing the calculus required to declare one the lesser evil.

        Walk away from omelas.

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          it must be really nice to be privileged enough to have this viewpoint. and all for what? so you can give yourself a nice ethical pat on the back when you help siphon from the dems, and the gop comes after women and minorities? not sure what your background is but damn dude that’s some fucked up shit