Bonus question: How many troll accounts do you thing will stop posting too?
Yep.
I think a good measure of whether something is moral is to imagine everyone doing it and consider if it would make the world a better or worse place.
In the U.S., most people probably don’t vote for a third party because they assume no one else will, so they worry their vote will be wasted. It’s a bit of a prisoner’s dilemma: if you vote and no one else does, you lose, but if everyone voted, everyone would benefit.
So, if someone does choose to vote third party, was it the right thing to do? Well, what if every voter acted this way? There’s a good chance the third party could win, and while it’s debatable, it’s reasonable to assume they might be a better choice than the other two.
Ranked-choice voting would solve this issue, by the way.
Third party votes are protest votes in a sense. They’ll still be there, they’ll just protest in other ways.
Better protest vote than Trump at least
It’s the same picture.
Are these other ways just as constructive as pissing their vote away…?
Depends on if you pay attention or care for what they’re protesting.
they may stop pushing a phony, failed candidate, but they’ll start-in with lies and other bullshit instead.
Russia still has a war to win. It will not stop.
No. They will continue to ramble on and on about how “both parties are the same”, and bitch about the person who won. A 3rd party can never win in the USA without changing the electoral system.
The genocide will continue and we will keep calling you unsouled, unhearted scumbag. No offense.
And what exactly does voting third party do about the genocide, other than put Donald “Finish the Job” Trump into office?
I’m probably going to leave after the election results are known for sure (note that if it’s very close, we might not be sure until all the votes are counted, which could take more than just a single day) - just too much traffic on here and world to keep up.
No, I’ll still be commenting, just like after the last ten elections where I also voted for third party candidates.
Really out there. Sticking it to… Nobody.
Just like you, right? Just like all of us who are posting instead of campaigning.
in addition to campaigning
FTFY
…yes, and then they will pay attention in another 3 1/2 years…
Third party voter here. I don’t expect any third party candidate to win. My home state of Connecticut is solidly blue. All of our electoral votes WILL go to Harris, no vote of mine could change that even if I wanted it to, which I don’t. I am no fan of Trump.
I vote for whichever third party looks likely to get the most total votes, because of a third party can drum up 5% of the total national popular vote they get a lot more federal election funds in the next election.
My voting priority is for next cycle, to get a third party on the debate stage. That’s what I’m voting for.
Yes, just like the few two times.
Bonus: they are all troll accounts
A phenomenon easily fixed by being intelligent enough to understand democracy and the argument against a 2 party system
They usually disappear and come back to blend in by either taking credit for a good win, or a victim to a loss.
Before this election cycle, I was thinking of americans as nice people, victim of a fucked-up country.
Now I realize, nah, they are just fucked up people themselves.
They are too cowardy to fight against fascism, so they accept extermination in foreign land as a necessary evil. An acceptable collateral that we should stop worrying about.
If the tables turns one day, if I have to pick between fighting fascism here and americans getting exterminated, well… I hope you have a place to hide ahah
