• elliot_crane@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    That would require them being capable of critical thinking, and anyone willing to vote third party clearly lacks in that department.

    • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Critical thinking would lead you to vote third party.

      What they lack is a specific piece of electoral information about first past the post voting: https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

      Combine the understanding that america–deeply unfortunately–uses first past the post voting with critical thinking, and it’s obvious third parties are, for now, a waste.

      But if you wrongly accuse them of not having critical thinking skills, they’ll use their critical thinking skills, which they have, to assume that you are not a good source of information, even though you’re encouraging them in the right direction.

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        3 hours ago

        That seems like a very roundabout way to say that in the present in the US, critical thinking leads you to not vote third party.

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        2 hours ago

        Sure, but we all give them that specific piece of electoral information in nearly every thread.