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    7 days ago

    i just see thats what they do and thats how it always worked.

    Cool. No reason to change anything then! Everything’s great, just like it’s always been!

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        7 days ago

        The I guess change is never going to happen. No third party candidate in the past 30 years has come even close to Ross Perot in the 1992 election. He got 18.9% of the vote. Do you know how many of the 270 electoral college delegates he needed to win that he got? Zero. Not a single delegate. You have to literally go back more than 100 years to find an example of a third party candidate even coming that close.

        So if that’s your big hope for change, you might as well just give up and get out of everyone else’s way.

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          I dont play politics.

          Neither party supports me so I am voting 3p.

          Obviously no 3p is winning but i cant in good conscience to vote for the two party system.

          Such is life in opposition. This is a generational fight anyway.

          If there is ecer hope hope for a break out, it will be done via 3p votes upsetting the status quo.

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            When did this become just about you? You said change has to happen by voting third party.

            Did you even work for a third party campaign this year? If so, which one and what did you do?

            Or do you hope you can just talk about voting third party to random people on internet forums and use the rules laid out in The Secret and then it will come to pass?

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              Doing my part and sharing it online

              Others can make their own voting decisions, i am here to explain how 3p works.

              It seems some people see the merit while most dont. And thats totallt fine.

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                Right, so you didn’t actually campaign for any candidate, which makes your “vote third party” idea even sillier.

                This is how many third party candidates there are this year:

                Jill Stein
                Chase Oliver
                Claude De La Cruz
                Randall Terry
                Cornel West

                So if you think people should vote either for Green Party candidate Jill Stein or Constitution Party candidate Randall Terry and it doesn’t matter which one because “third party or nothing,” you are an unserious person.

                It’s like saying you don’t care if dinner is shit or salad as long as it isn’t meat.

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                  6 days ago

                  I am a wage worker with a full time job.

                  It is not my job produce a candidate. I vote based on what it is available which is shit, shit or 3p shit.

                  I am just going to write in some random so my voted is counted in the total but it doesnt go to kamala trump…

                  This is not rocket science, this is pure opposition to the two party system.

                  I will keep doing this until i am dead OR system produces somebody i can stomach, we can revisit the issue then.

                  Ps. I dont think you understand the concept of opposition. Looks like muslim americans are discovering it tho. Wierd times but maybe thats what it takes or NOT

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                    I didn’t ask you to produce a candidate.

                    I gave you a list of third party candidates running in 2024. You won’t say who people should vote for.

                    Jill Stein and Randall Terry could not be more ideologically opposed on most issues. You’re doubling down on “third party or nothing” as if it doesn’t matter whether someone votes for the person who wants to do something about climate change or the climate change denier (Stein vs. Terry).

                    You are essentially backing up what I’m saying- “I’ll eat shit or salad for dinner. Doesn’t matter as long as it isn’t meat.”