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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If those "green voters" actually gave a shit about getting their candidate elected, you'd hear from them for more than 2 months every 4 years.

But no, that was never the goal. Their goal was for Trump to win

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And do what, canvas when there's no election and get even more doors slammed in your face.

Yeah the green party isn't campaigning in the off season, but neither are Republicans or democrats because nobody cares. Half the people only pay attention to politics the week before the election.

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know there's more than just the presidency... Right? Right? Building locally gcssroots doesn't mean showing up for the presidential cycle every four years. You understand this, right?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IMHO the local communities on Lemmy are still way too small. So you're mostly going to see discussion of national or global politics here.

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. We can go look up right now haw many state and federal positions are held by green parties

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not disputing that it's few. I'm pointing out that this activity would be practically invisible to us.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Then a 3rd party will never be viable.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah man, like 3 people on lemmy are the ones who TURN THE TIDES on elections

My god, the insanity is real.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about Jill Stein herself who shows up on the same timeline?

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah her 30k voters turned the tides of the election lolz 😂

She got 782,528 votes or about 0.5% of the popular vote.

You’re misrepresenting her votes by about 26 times less.

Why is that?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, it's almost like the goal wasn't to get her elected, it was to make sure Harris didn't get elected.

Lolz!

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man I want to know what you are on, to be so deluded into thinking that 30k people can literally swing an election lmao 🤣

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You realize elections have come down to a relatively small number of votes, correct? Especially if those votes are in the right locations.

https://www.britannica.com/list/5-remarkably-close-us-presidential-elections

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Still on the 30k votes again huh? No mention of the low turnout for Democrat voters? Or the crowd pushing for people not to vote?

[–] dx1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Green/PSL voters are literally posting in this thread. Maybe you have confirmation bias.