Maybe that's the only way US will ever get a third party. I'm not an American but I do think american politics system would be significantly stronger even with a minority 3rd party. Can you imagine how powerful US would be with a diverse parlament that has true competition of ideas not just partisan voting? That's true "checks and balances".
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Honestly, I am tentatively very excited about this. Not because I support that nazi in any way whatsoever. I am excited because he stands to be a significant spoiler for the GOPs elections.
Do they even really like him? I thought pretty much any Republican support for Elon came from his support/association with Trump
I'm a secret leftist amongst a bunch of low information MAGA voters (the ones that voted for Trump more because they're stupid and easily duped than being giant racists) in a few different circles. All they know is I own guns and answer "oh fuck no" when asked if I'm a liberal, so they assume I'm a non-MAGA conservative*. Hehehe.
Without exception, they adore Elno. They don't realize it but they're prosperity gospel types (because stupid), so they assume he must be a good and intelligent guy, otherwise Jebus wouldn't have made him successful.
*Side note: I have one all hot and bothered about seizing the means of production, just using different terms.
I learned "libertarian municipalist" as a code word for anarchist from Robert Evans. You don't have to lie and all they hear is libertarian.
hah ! love my new title
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Even opening up a poll on X to see what his users think about the idea...
Presumably the other headline that read '50% of voters' were in favour of this party, should have read '50% of X users who voted in the poll (a potentially large proportion of which were bots owned and controlled ultimately by Elon Musk) were in favour of this party'
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US (and in fact all 'Western') media is as bent as anything in the former Soviet Union.
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America certainly is in the hypernormalisation phase. I'm not sure how far behind the UK (and other Western nations media) is because I really don't engage in the media here. But any Murdoch owned media (like Fox in the US) is at the very least poisonous to open and fair democracy, and egalitarian society.
So, another copy of the Libertarian Party?
But even more barefacedly just "republicans who don't want to pay their taxes"
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"America Party"
Americans really are the ultimate parody of themselves. Have fun with your civil war.
The "America Party", started by a Nazi African. What a wild thing.
This whole thing leaves such a sour taste that he should have called it a lemon party.
splitting the nazi vote
Yeah FR this is literally the best thing that could have happened for the USA simply because of spoiler effect.
Not just the USA or even just North America. It's apparently a party for South America as well!
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The America Party run by a South African.
Popcorn is not enough for this country.
I did nazi that coming.
of all the things to shit on him for this isn't it. being multi cultural is the only culture we have and almost all of us are immigrants.
If it's an insult to that crowd then it's worth rubbing it in, and it certainly is.
I shit him for the name of the Party, not being South African.
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At least give it a cool name like The (John) Galt Party or something so it has a better change of splitting the right. I guess the nazi party was already taken?
He isn't trying to split the right, he actually thinks he can win because he's a fucking narcissist. So they will siphon votes from Democrats by pretending to be pro-Gaza and all of the kids who refuse to read a fucking book will buy it and vote for them.
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Just in: Elon Musk can fuck off. Preferably to Mars, permanently.
Fuck him and his political party.
Perfect timing. Just when everyone hates musk he wants votes.
Yea, that gonna be fun to cringewatch
Oh he didn't want to throw an X somewhere in that name like it is in almost everything he touches?
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I’m not sure if I want this to fail or succeed.
Hopefully it has success at breaking us from our failed two party system, while at the same time the party itself fails (and costs him lot of money in the process).
We'll need ranked choice (or some other voting scheme other than First Past The Post). Otherwise it'll just end up the same as it always has.
Need new rules in House and Senate, too. The majority party gets majority in all the committees, gets to pick all the committee chairs, etc. All of the current non-D/non-R members 'caucus' with one of the major parties, making them de facto members of that party. A third party with enough representation to block the other two from gaining majority would almost certainly end up in an alliance with one, leaving us back with functional two-party politics.
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Breaking the US from the failed 2-party system would require replacing first-past-the-post voting with at least ranked choice, if not a proportional system like Hare-Clarke, and probably scrapping the Electoral College altogether. Which may require constitutional amendments, or at least a partisan Supreme Court sympathetic to more democracy that would Chewbacca-defence it through regardless of legality.
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Best case scenario is it will split the right wing vote. In Canada, we're used to it going the other way with conservatives taking advantage of a split left.
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I want him to split the GOP vote. Basically just a Jill Stein that believes his own swill.
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He can fuck right off. I don't believe him and Trump are actually at odds and I think this is an attempt to create an opposition party that's even more under conservative control than the Democrats are.
The chances that a real Elon party signifigantly stealing votes from the Republicans to the point it causes an actual vote split is basically nil. The voter base is stupid, but not so stupid to hand a brand new party anything out of the gate.
Now, controlled opposition, is a foundation of the farce that is Russian democracy, and both DT and Elon are staunch admirers of Putin's system where its a mob masquerading as a government with total control
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What's it called again ? Please let it be an AnCap one, it would make sense for him to do just that
I'm surprised he didn't try to meme it up and call it the Lemon Party.
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What kind of shitty click bait is this?
The richest man in the world officially announced on Saturday that he has officially formed a new political party to challenge Republicans and Democrats alike.
He fucking tweeted that it was created, literally nothing official.
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Their logo needs to be a muskrat. Doesn't matter what they name it.
Hey you guyz, now there is another billionaire you can donate your money to and he will do nothing for you. Cool!
Split the ring wing vote. Let them fight it out. Hopefully this could mean getting them out of the White House.
I'm really happy about this, always thought 1 flavour of fascism wasn't enough for me /s
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