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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world -4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I think this is a dumb take. Third parties are only used like this in the US because our voting system is incredibly broken and there is little interest in fixing it. If you don't explicitly highlight the caveats:

  1. The spoiler effect is a fixable problem, even on the state by state basis.
  2. Third parties are, conceptually, a great idea

then what you're doing is attempting to uphold and protect the broken system from being improved.

[-] candybrie@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

It is a fixable problem, but it is not a fixed problem. Bringing them up during presidential elections and only during presidential elections doesn't fix the problem and just leads to it.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

So you won't complain about spoilers during midterms, then?

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The spoilers rarely show up, if ever, during midterms, which is very telling.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Then it'll be really easy to not complain about them.

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