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Ok then, so what's your solution? I'm still gonna vote for the lesser evil, while still organizing and doing direct action, to reduce harm unless presented with an alternative.
Maybe a candidate that's good? You could run for an office.
Edit: essentially I mean for the situation at hand, especially with this upcoming election, what else can we do?
The solution is Ranked Choice Voting. Anyone can run and voters rank all the candidates. So if you put Stein (for example) first and she doesn't get enough votes, your vote then goes to your second choice, and so on. It lets you vote the way you really want it to go, not just strategically.
K, we don't have that option though.
Ok, maybe I wasn't clear, so I apologize, I'm talking about the situation as it is, like with this election.
Edit: I think maybe getting people to run who will change things for racked choice voting is a good strategy long term, and we could and should work for that
Ranked choice voting as a topic comes up every 2-4 years. Then no one does anything about it after the election is over.
If you want it so bad, do whatever you can to keep the conversation going between elections.
Ranked choice/instant runoff voting is not doing a lot for Australia. The "left" major party is centrist at best, the "right" major party is drifting further right and the only minor party of note is basically Nazis.
Lab moved right because every single left wing policy they took to the polls got fucking libs voted in. When your public votes in fucking scott morrison by choice you know you're fucked and act accordingly
You remember Gillard's misogyny speech? Great times. The next year we voted the subject and target of that speech as PM.
Don't fucking sook about parties going right wing when that's how people vote
You seem angry and not great at comprehending the topic at hand. Maybe step away from the internet for a bit.
This lazy dismissal seems to be your standard go to comment every time you can't think of a coherent response. Perhaps it is you that needs to step away from the internet.
How are the greens nazis?
A handful of jurisdictions have tried just that, it's absolutely wild.
You just keep doing what the bumper sticker says, obviously. You vote for the red and they hit you and rob you, vote for the blue and they rob you nicely.
How is this hard for people?
Republicans do what they want and the Democrats ask us to vote for them a little harder and, eventually, they will be able to do something, as long as precedent isn't broken, as long as it's the "high road", as long as it's not something the parliamentarian can override, etc...
currently,
-hakeem is secretly meeting with kushner. He is also taking Thiel money and setup and AI "regulations committee" with other Dems who take Thiel money.
-AIPAC Dems are funding AIPAC Republicans over actual left candidates
-tammy duckworth says that we shouldnt impeach and should work WITH the traitornazirapistpedophilicwarcriminals.
Can you please explain to me how voting for the "lesser" evil is helpful?
Ah so you think the third of the country that didn't vote was based and revolutionary, not just passively endorsing Trump.
No. I'm saying we need something new.
Whatever side you are on, unless it is the billionaires, the USA dies when Elon was allowed to take every bit of our most sensitive data and secrets. We are talking about the Pentagon, OPM, and Social Security. Unknown foreign agents with ILLEGAL access, downloaded it all to external servers and I stalled AI and code.
On top of this, our government has been revealed to be a majority of foreign paid agents from Israel that have blackmailed the worst of our politicians into doing their bidding.
These tech Nazis have been given actual military units and ranks, and now Palmer Lucky and Elon Musk will be overseeing killing, autonomous drones that may or may not have nukes.
We lost, we aren't voting our way out of this
Ok
I get that.
I really for sure get that.
But there's an election happening I'm not not going to let Republicans take office while I still can vote.
So while we're all gearing up for the downfall of the American government, I'm going to vote for anyone who's got a chance of winning against Republicans.
It's not going to magically fix the system. I'm not under any pretense it'll fix this mess.
But I'm going to do everything I can, and that includes voting.
I will be forced to vote for AIPAC and genocide too. And then our slim margins will always mean "you don't want another trump in here!"
Maybe it will wake people up when no one from MAGA is really punished or he doesn't accept the results and there is no one to enforce the law. I think we will just reenact everything from Iraq again.
This can't go on