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Hey, everyone who’s claiming Harris is going to be just as bad for Gaza as Trump will be: square this circle for me, would you?

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107 points

They’re voting Jill Stein because Daddy Putin says vote splitting is a communist conspiracy

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57 points

Jill Stein sold her morals to the highest bidder like a good capitalist.

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-45 points

Harris sold hers to AIPAC

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1 point

Cornell West 2024!

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The people who claim that are campaigning for trump.

Some because they like him. Some because they are accelerationist motherfuckers that want to see the world burn. Some because they are useful idiots.

But they are all spreading lies in service of Trump.

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Well actually several Dem congressmen vote for stuff we don’t like therefore all Dems are as bad as Repubs and therefore they are worse than Repubs.

My sources are lemmy.ml and hexbear.

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2 points

It’s black and white thinking and it’s stupid. There’s zero nuance to it.

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

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I live in a state where my vote literally doesn’t matter. Think about that, genius.

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Cool. Not everyone does and advocating protest voting can have an effect outside that of your individual vote. Your move, genius.

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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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No. Critical thinking skills preclude even entertaining the notion of voting third party, because critical thinking skills would lead one to comprehend how FPTP and the EC work, and realize the all-but-guaranteed mathematical impossibility of electing a third party president.

Anyone who proudly proclaims to vote third party is one of the following, without exception:

  • an uninformed idealist, aka a useful idiot
  • a bad actor
  • an entitled jackass with zero disregard for the effects of their actions

In any of these cases, I wouldn’t trust these people with a butter knife let alone a ballot. But that’s not my call, so I call them out for what they are.

E: forgot a word

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

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your video reaches the wrong conclusion. values voting is the only way to stop party consolidation. the problem is strategic voting.

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26 points

Last time I checked on those people they claimed Trump would be completely pro Palestinian and everyone who didn’t see this true true was stupid. Didn’t know they jumped right to jUsT As BaD.

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Yeah, their newest cope is to say the Democrats are equally as bad as the Republicans, despite that being so blatantly false to anyone who has been paying attention for the past 8 years. They’re in for a very rude surprise when their plan to “push the Dems left” results in Trump obliterating Gaza and enacting Project 2025 and pushing the country even further right than it is now. And there won’t be another election for the Dems to court Left voters for.

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No one claimed Trump would be better for Palestine, we’ve said Harris and Biden is as bad as Trump would be.

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Ohh, well here is a perfect example of him being worse.

Biden/Harris still “just as bad?”

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This is a blatant lie.

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I mean it does look a lot like Trump will not only aid Israel genocide of gaza but will join in on the murder. Maybe the time for false equivocation is over ?

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Removed, civility.

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-4 points

Gotta protect the children

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9 points

They were never serious

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8 points

The people employing bad arguments and/or who just turned 14 are not likely to be able to do that.

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4 points

Yeah they’re probably still learning their basic geometry

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2 points

Clearly none were paying attention in Civics class.

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Basically his ideas are automatically the good ideas, and since Harris isn’t gonna do the exact same thing as him that means she’ll be bad. Same logic in saying she’ll be bad for Israel, the southern border, etc.

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Yes, genocide with a smile is super awesome. Much better. \s

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Sure! The Muslim ban will be defeated in court again, and the Biden administration will not accept refugees from Gaza in any real number regardless.

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Refugees from gaza are not currently accepted by the us, smart one.

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They have no response to this, because it’s completely factual and they’re more concerned with Trump’s rhetoric than Biden’s actions.

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Exactly. Meanwhile privileged ass college kids talking about voting for this guy because Biden wasn’t being a baby. Fucking idiots.

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Wat

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Harris is happy to keep killing them over there so they don’t come over here

Check the latest from the Biden admin: https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/0c608e65-1a84-4707-8124-06620a4c567c.png?thumbnail=1500&format=webp

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Black text on white background. Posted by a no name Nazi on a Nazi platform. Reposted endlessly by no name nobodies on a no name platform. No sources. Smells like propaganda.

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Really? You can’t bother to look up these completely true facts? Would rather call it a nazi conspiracy? That’s how this pipeline works: smug liberalism -> willful ignorance -> complicit with genocide.

Who’s upvoting this trash?

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Lol none of that is true. Prem Thakker isn’t a Nazi 😆

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For what? Bursting your positive vibes with reality?

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