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I hate how they’ve spammed their way into turning this community into 90% conversations about irrelevant 3rd parties.
Every post is either by them or something meant to dunk on them.
That's such a ridiculous claim that I bothered to count.
There's been 4 posts about anything regarding 3rd parties out of 31 in the last 24h and that's much MORE than usual!
Sounds like you're just hypersensitive about being reminded that the two party duopoly is only ALMOST complete 🙄
Yes that was hyperbolic, I see these posts on my feed on a daily basis, and it's filled with dozens of rehashed comments bickering about the validity of third parties. It's getting far more attention here than it deserves when there are tons of actual, real political issues in the world.
I'll be the first to say that I hate both major parties, but I have the political literacy to understand that the way to fix it is not by voting for someone with questionable ties to Russia that seems to pop up out of nowhere every four years.
If you guys actually cared to solve the issues you'd be campaigning to first and foremost get electoral reform to make third parties even remotely viable instead of trying to work within this extremely broken, barely democratic system. You'd also be doing work at a local level where real change can be made to movement rather than just throwing a candidate out for president every election. You won't do that though because you're all a bunch of weird idealists with fantastical views of how politics work. I'm interested in following news thats grounded in reality
I'm not one of "those guys" advocating specific 3rd party candidates. Sadly, none of the current choices are viable.
I'm just pointing out your overreaction, which is just as much of a distraction from the REAL issues you pretend to care about.
Yeah, because mentioning 3rd parties means that you don't care about anything else at all. What a galaxy brained take 🙄
That's exactly what I'm doing, depending on how wide your definition of "campaigning" is. Just because I correct your hysteria doesn't mean that you have to create a strawman of me that totes loves Jill Stein or whatever 🙄
In my case, "local" is part of Denmark, a country with a much better election system. Doesn't mean that I can't have knowledge and opinions about US politics and the kinds of absolutist "us or them" language that bears some of the responsibility for the duopoly surviving in spite of what the vast majority of the population wants.
Also, just FYI: assuming that everyone is able to be active in local politics beyond online discussions reeks of privilege and ableism.
Again lumping me in with a group to which I don't belong.
Aaand again. Are you going for some kind of record in strawmen and jumping to conclusions? Because if so, you're doing an excellent job so far.
Me too. I'm also interested in discussing the news using language grounded in reality, rather than weird hyperbole making a small minority out to be a dominant force and tormentor ruining everything.
As much as I’m tempted, I’m not interested in getting to a debate with you about this. For someone mad about me ‘jumping to conclusions’ you sure made a whole lot of assumptions about me that aren’t really true.
Whether my rant was directed at you, or one of the handful of other Jill Stein nutjobs on here doesn’t really matter, I’ve said my piece.
Have a great day.
They’re not even American, yet telling us how we should vote. That’s about as bad faith as it gets.
Being not from America, you have NO PLACE telling people how they should vote. And no one has the obligation to take nothing you say seriously at all.
Never told anyone how to vote, so you can pack that strawman away.
We have a saying over here: when America sneezes, Europe catches a cold.
We live in an interconnected world where what the world's foremost superpower does profoundly effects literally billions of people.
There's nothing weird about a European being interested in and knowledgeable about American politics.
Dismissing my input based on geography alone ON THE INTERNET makes it a good thing that no one has the obligation to take anything a fool like you says seriously at all either.
Like the Green Party itself I look forward to you disappearing after the election. I’m sure your handlers will have you focus on some other pressing topic.
I think they'll just have more time to devote to their other interests, like their c/transracial Lemmy community.
Many of them are surprisingly silent on the matter.
It’s refreshing.
NOT VOTING FOR HERRRRRRRRR
Are we sure that that's not her secret Lemmy account? Lmao
I’ve seen that person around. Serious cringe vibes.
I don’t see them in the comments. They’re probably on lunch break with that linkerbaan person.