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    11 hours ago

    I got into this argument the other day. People’s arrogance and lack of common sense was disappointing.

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      11 hours ago

      Yeah tell ne qbout it thinking not voting for either one somehow helps trump 😂 same people that failed basic arithmetic clearly. What they really msan to say is that people voting third party are not helping harris…and yeah thats the point and entirely not the same thing.

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            7 hours ago

            Did you even read this article? This is what Liz Cheney actually said:

            “Reactionaries make statements. Conscientious and thoughtful people take action because they know moral statements will never change the world.”

            If you’re interpreting that statement as indicating support for Apartheid, then you clearly have problems with reading comprehension.

            In any case, there’s a big difference between Liz Cheney’s bad opinion in 1987, and the guy who founded the “Knights of the Ku Klux Klan” in Louisiana. There’s quite a gap in scale there.

            Your “stone” seems to be more of a bouncy ball.

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              Dick Cheney is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Incredible that liberals will defend the Cheneys, not sure if it’s that you don’t care about people’s lives if they happened to be born in another country, or if you’re just willing to defend anyone and anything if you think it’ll help you win.

              How did Stein’s response to David Duke’s endorsement compare to Harris’ response to Cheney’s? Did she accept the endorsement?

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            9 hours ago

            Is this a bot account or something? Every post has obvious typing mistakes and they all say utter bullshit. When shortly scrolling through their comments I didn’t see a single upvote.

            Every comment is on the usa election. Account created 2 weeka ago.

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              and yes, everyone comment is on the election because thats all I particularly care about atm ;) please support rank choice in your state so this nonsense can stop. I’m tired of watching my country kill people for no good fucking reason. I’m tired of watching people shit on 3rd party voters for having a moral conscience that is clearly superior to the majority of liberals.

              I am sorry every argument against 3rd party voters is so easily torn apart by simple addition demonstrating that its harmless. if more people had a spine maybe harris wouldn’t be supporting a genocide. but then again maybe she would. either way hard pass.

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        49k votes for Stein in Pennsylvania, Trump won by 47k

        32k votes for Stein in Wisconsin, Trump won by 22k

        51k votes for Stein in Michigan, Trump won by 10k.

        Third party voters are useful idiots.

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              Sorry i shouldn’t have made it so advanced. Ill try to come up with a simpler example in the future!

              But maybe sit out of the political removed fest if you can’t handle how basic arithmetic works eh?

              If harris or the dnc want votes, then promote and deliver on policies that people want. If you cant well thats a them problem.

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                9 hours ago

                Copy pasting the same smug wall of text every time is not the political own you think it is. In fact, it makes people not want to read it.

                Maybe you should get off of the internet and enjoy the nature outside. It’s good for people, y’know?

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                  Try taking your own advice. A bit of time away from a screen should help with these feeling that everyone who fails to vote for Harris is a Trump suppprter.

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                  9 hours ago

                  shrug maybe people should get a clue on what third party votes mean and stop posting the same tired, wrong, and pointless ‘theyre helping Y’ nonsense and ill stop treating them all like children.

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        10 hours ago

        Oh the irony here.

        If there are only two viable options, not helping one is the same as helping the other.

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            9 hours ago

            If there’s a toddler about to walk into traffic and you choose to keep swiping on tinder or whatever instead of helping the kid, that kid’s death is still on you.

            Samw thing with not stopping trump.

            It’s really not complicated.

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                Hey kiddo, instead of deflecting to Palestine, how about you explain how either this voting instance is different than the analogy I’ve given or admit that you’d be fine letting the kid die because of whatever.

                If you’re going to be incorrectly smug about voting third party, try answering a reasonable question about it.

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                What’s trumps excuse? What’s your excuse? What’s God’s excuse?

                I’m tired of all this. I take full responsibility. If I had done more this tragedy could have been averted. I’m sorry to those who have suffered because of my inadequacy. Render what ever judgment you will on me and in the future, if there is one for scum like me, I will try to do better.

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                  7 hours ago

                  What’s trumps excuse?

                  who cares? he never had a chance at my vote to begin with for a large number of reasons. we can just add it to the pile of shitty things trump is okay doing. but we already knew he was willing to commit genocide. this is a surprise to no one who as paid attention.

                  What’s God’s excuse?

                  dunno if i could find him i’d ask him.

                  What’s your excuse?

                  for what? not supporting harris? I’ve been very clear on this: genocide.

                  I’m tired of all this.

                  so am I friend, so am I. I’m not the one running around trying to convince people to vote for a particular candidate by shaming others using intellectually dishonest claims of ‘helping trump’, ‘both parties were going genocide, pick the lesser evil’, etc.

                  I want people to get off their ass and vote. I didnt vote for harris or trump, I voted down ballot. I’m also not in a swing state or a state with shitty womens rights. harris is going to win my state regardless. That being said the liberals running around spouting nonsense about helping trump when its clearly and demonstrably not true is going to lead to people not voting at all.

                  And that my friend is why I call this shit out. because they might have voted down ticket regardless which can only help the situation. and quite frankly im happy to treat people with the same level of vitriol that they treat others. Now I will continue campaigning against genocide and getting ranked choice done, please volunteer so people can stop being asses to each other.

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                    How does who you vote for in the presidential election promote RCV? How does it reduce genocide? The action you promote advances neither goal. I will grant that if you’re in a secure state, your vote will have little chance to affect the presidential election, but it also won’t serve as a wakeup call to the winners of the election that FPTP needs to go.

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                    who cares? he never had a chance at my vote to begin with for a large number of reasons. we can just add it to the pile of shitty things trump is okay doing. but we already knew he was willing to commit genocide. this is a surprise to no one who as paid attention.

                    It kind of matters. Just a little, don’t you think. Don’t you think the openly fascist candidate matters, sorta, kinda, just a little bit? You know your vote alone doesn’t decide the outcome of the election, right?

                    for what? not supporting harris? I’ve been very clear on this: genocide.

                    Let me figure this one out. Your non support for Harris has discluded you from responsibility for the death of a child in a foreign nation? How about this, I don’t support Harris either. I’ll still vote for her.

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        6 hours ago

        Gotta love people trying to use maþ to defend someþing ð actual maþ clearly says is ð complete fucking opposite of helpful.