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Both MAGA and these so-called "allies" want me dead at the end of the day. We're just expected to starve to death when Amerikkka collapses or the people finally rise up.
I know full well how horrific what Israel is doing is. But there was no anti-genocide option on the ballot in 2024. There was no way that Jill Stein or whoever was going to get enough votes to win. Hell, most of Stein's supporters I talked to their best case scenario was getting to 5% for debate access and federal funds next go round. Any that I confronted about Gaza not having 4 years just shrugged and said some variation of "better than voting for a genocide" How exactly? Because they didn't have to sacrifice their ideological purity?
Also, Jill Stein is just as corrupted by Russian money as all the Republican Party leadership are. She just exists to steal Dem votes.
Purely a coincidence she was seated at a table with Vladimir Putin? Who else is allowed to get within 10 feet of him?
where's the money, Lebowski
At the table.
There is a picture of her eating with Putin in Russia. She has been documented with plenty of evidence of her going back and forth from there several times. Fuck her.
This is from a DNC hitpiece.
"The Senate Intelligence Committee investigated Stein after she was photographed in 2015 sitting at a table with Putin at a tenth anniversary celebration for Russia Today, the state-run propaganda network (since renamed just “RT”).
Call noted that Stein “was cleared by the Senate Intelligence Committee after their investigation of multiple individuals’ supposed ties to Russia.”
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/useful-idiot-for-putin-russia-dnc-jill-stein-green-party
Antigenocide was absolutely on the ballot, but like the others you tell yourself the stories of impossibility that the duopoly wants you to believe.
So you chose the people that promised Roe v Wade would become law for 50+ years and everytime they have the ability to do so they shrug their shoulders and say "Meh."
Or maybe the same allies who allow the parliamentarian to arbitrarily shut down the will of the people.
Or maybe it's the same people who get you to "rally against the oligarchy" that will tell you to fall in line for the next corporate democrat who is actually a republican with a mask on.
Harris was the perfect candidate to illustrate the willing ineptitude of the democrats, and people looked at her like she was going to be some kind of savior.
Change doesn't happen by doing the same thing over and over again. The only difference Harris really offered from Trump was facade and rhetoric. The democrats had 4 years to do something to help people and motivate votes their way. They instead chose genocide. All the money they sent could have been used to help people like you and I, but they chose death.
They are not allies, and you will you never achieve any meaningful change or progress with them holding the reigns. They have proven this over and over again.
Some historical context for you.
Just in case you don't read or comprehend the article here is a TL;DR
Third party is dead in the US without changes to the voting process.
And just to be more clear: You, and anyone else who voted third party essentially voted for Trump. And if you didn't vote you voted for Trump as well.
the mental gymnastics inside one clause are incredible
If you don't understand how either not voting or voting third party equated to voting for Trump then I guess enjoy riding your moral high horse of superiority.
trump only gets to count votes for him. any other vote is a vote against him, and a non vote is a non vote
See the thing is that a candidate only needs a plurality of cast votes. So every vote that doesn't get cast makes that plurality easier to achieve. If there are 100 people that can vote and all of them do you need 51 for a majority. If 10 of them don't vote at all and there's only 90 left you now only need 46 for that same majority. If another 10 of them vote for some third party that person now only needs 41 votes to have the largest plurality. Every person that doesn't vote lowers the threshold for victory.
It's tempting to think that this benefits both remaining candidates equally since both can benefit from that lowered margin. But in reality it gets skewed based on who stayed home/voted third party and who didn't. This is the spoiler effect.
so you know non votes don't get counted for Trump
Missed the entire point huh? If people not voting lowers the required counts to achieve a plurality, then mathematically speaking it is functionally equivalent to voting for the candidate furthest away from that non-voter's preference.
The only way a non-voter does not work in the favor of in this case Trump would be if there was some absolute share of eligible voters he had to reach. But since only a plurality is needed every non-vote and every third-party vote lowers the amount of votes he needs to achieve that plurality.
This is literally a studied and documented mathematical phenomenon related to first past the post systems.
no, it's not.
You can argue with the math all you like. It won't change.
you're the one who can't seem to count.
Wow it's a good things democrats took those 4 years to make everyone's lives better. They really motivated all those people who didn't vote for them to support them.
I also like how they are championing changes to the electoral process that would help more candidates get on the ballot. Oh wait they aren't doing any of that!
You can blame anyone you want, but when democrats know they have just enough votes to lose without having to concede anything at all they are going to keep playing the lesser of two evils best hits and convince you to blame everyone else.
They will keep voting for war, tax cuts for the rich, and increases to their own benefits and salaries. As long as they do it with an anti-Trump pro-LGBTQ sticker their constituents will blame those who found no resonance within a hollow corporate party.
So what do you recommend?
The base we can start with is never voting for a politician who accepts foreign (even hidden foreign) money.
Vote your conscience - aka things you believe in and want to see happen - not by who is scaring you the most.
Aside from that - try to build up third parties and bring their ideas to the front. This is an answer finding mission many of us are on together.
There's enough blame to go around my love
Yes, we already covered Democrats Bad. I agree. I hate them with a passion. Doesn't change that in a national electoral sense they are the only viable party at this moment to enact any kind of positive change. They are not and should never be the only option. But all people who talk like you do ever seem to offer as a solution is the "Glorious Revolution™" that hundreds of thousands if not millions of vulnerable people WILL die in because they never think about how those people are going to survive when food or medicine supply lines get disputed by fighting for the most fucking basic of examples.
They engage in this rhetoric because it's Magical Thinking that absolves them of having to do something they feel is icky and stains their ideological purity. It'll all be fixed when the Oppressed finally throw off their chains and eat the rich or whatever.
Revolution starts in the mind.