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[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

It's nonsense to assume that every vote for Stein in 2016 would have voted for Clinton. Most exit polls showed that people who voted for Stein or Johnson would not have voted in the first place. Hillary was a losing candidate from the start.

[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nobody ever claimed “everybody”, just the “enough”, and the data actually reflects that. Even if they didn’t vote, Clinton would’ve won.

I voted for Stein for 2016 (before we knew what we know now), and I voted for Howie Hawkins in 2020. But then I lived in New York, and I knew my vote wouldn’t matter, so I could vote my conscience without threatening the concept of democracy. This year I am in Florida, and I damn well fucking know I’m gonna vote for Kamala Harris and a straight democratic ticket below that. Because I understand the consequences of my actions.

[-] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Let us salute this brave soul who has moved to Florida.

God speed.

[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

It was family stuff. I absolutely hate living here, I wanna get back to New York as soon as possible.

[-] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That sucks, mate.

Hope you are able to move back soon.

[-] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

Anybody who cares about Green policy should vote against Trump.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Logically, yeah.

But if these voters were logical they would realize the issue with FPTP voting systems and not fuck with 3rd parties in the first place.

[-] CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago

At least not at the national level. Third parties do fairly well locally.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago

The ones that bother actually showing up. AKA not the Green Party.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Nader is a mich better example. If 99% of the Florida Nader voters had stayed home and the remaining 1% voted for Gore, he would have won even with the Supreme Court's decision to stop the recount.

[-] multifariace@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

But then I hear so many Trump voters would have voted for Bernie. So who is the real spoiler?

[-] Zanudous@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Imagine supporting a political party so unappealing to a majority of the population, that you resort to blaming them when you don't win.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Trump was appealing enough to win. Was it that he was actually good or are a good portion of voters just fucking idiots?

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

It is harder to get the bothsidesing done if you think of Repubs as having agency and responsibility for their actions, instead of believing only Dems do. Dems as a collective are also all as bad as their worst member, whom they are all actively colluding with. Repubs are just a few bad apples so we can interpret their actions individually.

Weak ACA is the Dems' fault, Citizens United is the Dems' fault, Donald is the Dems' fault, Dobbs is the Dems' fault, Chevron is the Dems' fault.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

The first time I voted, I cast it for our green party, not because I wanted them to win, but because I knew they wouldn't win and my vote would have no effect on the outcome. I haven't been paying much attention to politics at that point in time so I didn't have an opinion on who should win. I just wanted to vote to understand how the process works.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Sure and maybe by not voting these people could've said "I wasn't foolish, I was just lazy!"

But unfortunately for them, Jill Stein was on the ballot and they foolishly voted for her and here we are.

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That part. They are repeating 2016 talking points again.

[-] Antagnostic@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

This tbh, if we don't want Green votes, make better reasons to them to vote the way you want them to vote. They vote green because they don't agree with the other candidates. They should fix that instead of complaining about it.

[-] Grebes@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

Somehow “not facism” isn’t enough for some people

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