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Well. Facts didn't work. Pleading with them didn't work. Now we all have to suffer because of their stupidity.
Yeah, I'm moving on to calling them fucking idiots.
I've spent countless hours trying to logically explain basic concepts to conservatives and 3rd party voters, some of whom are my actual friends and family, so I treat them with respect when I speak to them.
Trust me when I say you are NOT going to convert them.
The only hope is catching people with logic and facts when they're young and first developing their political opinions.
Our economy is now tanking because of these fools. Yet another economic crisis in my lifetime. Fuck them. I'm sick of their pathetic, stupid shit.
Boggles my mind how all these people desperately trying to whip everyone into supporting the two-party system, just assume that third-party voters and non-voters automatically owe their vote to their party. The sheer vanity and arrogance of it.
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36LT4WK
Third-Party votes were not the balance of this election. That is complete and utter lie on your part. Even if every single Third Party voter voted for Harris she would not have had enough votes to win. Not that Libertarians were going to go for her in any case.
FYI, the article you are posting is from November 2024, when all the votes weren't counted yet.
The final numbers show Trump with 2.3 million more votes. 77.3 million (49.8%) vs 75 million (48.3%) of the total vote. Third part candidates, including write-ins, were 2.13% of the vote. 2.97 million people voted third party or write in. This is also not counting the 90 million that didn't vote but where registered.
So no, you are wrong. If every single third party voter voted Harris, she would have won.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_and_independent_candidates_for_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election
She would have won the popular vote. Not necessarily the election.
Except no, you probably should have read more closely. Yes more votes were counted later, the vast vast majority of them from the West Coast. In the swing States that actually decide the election, not the popular vote, the numbers did not change significantly. If every single voter who voted third party, which again is a stupid thing to assume they all would have voted for her considering the Libertarians were the second largest block, she still would have lost the election.
Hey! Facts are only a thing when i get to say it!!!
Funny how these accusations were relatively absent for the last three months while visa and green card holders were shipped off to labor camps in El Salvador, but as soon as Trump does some shit to tank the economy, that's when the knives come out
Liberals will defend the same problematic capital structures as republicans - change my mind.
So by that logic, third party voters were fine with visa and green card holders being shipped out in the same way they're ok with tariffs making the U.S. the enemy of the world except for "liberals" complaining about their poor choice and making them feel bad.
Wasn't much of a concern when voting though.