• ruplicant
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    11 months ago

    i naively believed the other lemming’s statement but Cornel West’s running. if Jill Stein wins her party’s primary, that’ll be two candidates with a history of condemning Israel’s war on palestinians, both having described that state’s actions as genocidal

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      11 months ago

      And a vote for either is a vote for Trump. But if you want to bury your head in the sand and condemn the country to oblivion on principle, well hey, it’s a free country for the next 12 months.

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        nope, a vote for some candidate is a vote for that candidate. i’m not burying my head in the sand because i’m not an american voter. i’m a foreigner that’s been a victim of lying imperialist presidents from the bullshit land of the free fairyland for a long freaking time

        you claim the US to be a free country for at least the next 12 months, and i think you have your head in the sand. just because i think Trump is way worse than Biden doesn’t mean i don’t know for a fact that he’s really bad

        i came here because @[email protected] falsely claimed that no one else is on the table

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            yeah it’s not the first time you stamp that out of someone.

            /s i really think bullying people into the same choice as yours is very democratic

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          11 months ago

          Considering you have no skin in the game, do you think it’s proper to try and influence the political process of another country?

          I didn’t like it when Cambridge Analytica did it in my country.

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            11 months ago

            first, most of the world has a skin in this game

            second, it seems to me that you’re claiming i’m trying to influence US elections because i don’t agree with you. i started typing in here because i was mislead by a lie, asked for clarification, and then added information for other readers to clarify that lie

            you’re comparing my posts to the actions of Cambridge Analytica (lol!!) that’s really sensasionalist and manipulative

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          Okay so technically others are on the table, but realistically you only have two options. My country uses a representative parliament, your party needs to hold a certain amount of votes to enter parliament because each (literal) seat in parliament corresponds to a certain amount of votes. You obviously can’t divide a person in two, so you need to clear the bar.

          The U.S. has a singular winner. Unless for some reason a very large portion of voters decide to vote for a third party (and the same third party at that), you’re unlikely to ever see a third party candidate actually win.