• nserrano@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    I respect these people more. Not because of who they voted for but because they aren’t ‘Always Vote Blue/Red’. People don’t get that career politician are there to help themselves first. DONT VOTE FOR THE PARTY, VOTE FOR THE PERSON.

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      22 hours ago

      Undecided voters in the modern era are ALL fucking morons. It’s not like the two parties are at ALL aligned in any way. They could not be more different.

      If you declare you’re undecided, you should not be allowed to vote because you’re too goddamn stupid.

  • Zikeji@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    As someone in a swing state, I made the mistake of voting third party once. As much as I’d love to be represented by someone outside the two parties shoved down my throat, the system needs major change before such a vote can actually affect the outcome.

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      There are so few of you out there. The vast majority of voters under the Electoral College system live in deeply uncontested territory.

      There are tens millons of those compared to the tens of thousands of voters living in the select few swing districts of a select few swing states.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldOP
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        Genuinely very annoyed at the guy who sees a Californian or a South Carolinian vote third party and gets mad about it.

        Why even bother with democracy if there’s only one correct choice on the ballot? Just do a dictatorship already, you cowards.

    • AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Thank you for realizing. I meet too many people who think “protest” is them voting 3rd party.

      I put that on par with people I meet who tip $0 or tip 1 cent to make a point and force owners to pay better.

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    20 hours ago

    I’m not quite sure that’s either an ideal, nor a swing voter. It is accurate to the average active voter, and likely closer to the persistent non-voter. With turnout like we have in America this is a much more coherent ideology than you can expect from most.

  • Turret3857@infosec.pub
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    1 day ago

    Bluesky is an open platform you could use literally any open source project to follow

    fucking discord

    ok.