“Yes don’t vote at all to get rid of fascism”

    • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      It is a vote, and over 1.5 million Americans (excluding those for RFK) made such votes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election#Results

      IMO, progressives (who’s not too bothered by Stein’s cozying up to Russia a bit) from California, most of New England, DC, Maryland, Hawaii, or Washington (state), and yet yammer on about how bad third parties are because they split the Democrat vote, are probably stupid, or at least ignorant, and should give some of the time they spend watching CNN or Vaush to reading election stats.

      • HalfSalesman@lemm.ee
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        3 hours ago

        Election stats? You ever hear the phrase “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics”

        Stats on their own given a poor analysis of an average joe/jane can mislead just as much if not more than a talking head can.

        The core fact remains that voting for a third party under a first past the post system is risking permitting the greater evil to win.

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        how bad third parties are because they split the Democrat vote, are probably stupid, or at least ignorant, and should give some of the time they spend watching CNN or Vaush to reading election stats.

        Hey, I don’t need to comment because you said it all for me.