Olgratin_Magmatoe @ Olgratin_Magmatoe @lemmy.world

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It's a double edged sword.

You seem to be saying that the voters are irrational.

Some are, some aren't. Either way, saying "just have better policy" is ignorant at best.

I've been slowly working on it for the last year or so. It's gone a lot smoother than I thought it would.

I disagree. While that's probably the case nine times out of ten, just because somebody is in a higher power seat doesn't mean they got there because they're greedy.

There needs to be change and protections at higher levels of government too.

Unless it is a local election, you have no chance of winning unless you're in one of the two main parties. So candidates almost always choose to join one of the parties.

Yes, which is why I included the qualifier "quality" to my statement.

This is a slice of the electorate that the dems haven’t won over yet, but could.

If we're just repeating things, then I guess that's what we're doing.

The spoiler effect is based on geometric proximity, not the quality of policy.

Why do liberals assume they are entitled to leftist votes?

Your confusing that with the fact that an overlap of two circles is a venn diagram.

The spoiler effect is based on geometric proximity, not the quality of policy. They're a waste of a vote, because they have no chance of winning.

If the greens want to do something they should work at the local level where they actually have a chance.

This is pretty much what's happened with my latest character.

I'm playing a reborn/dragonborn, who had previously tried to fight Strahd but lost. And a part of that loss means that my character lost a good chunk of his memories of fighting Strahd before.

But Strahd still remembers my character. So it has lead to some interesting interactions.

Yeah that's kinda how a reductio ad absurdum works.

Are you really compare the two things?

Yes

This person decided to be a member of a party supporting a genocide just like someone decides to become a trump supporter

Here's the thing though, Americans don't have the luxury of going to another party, because only two of them are viable. So if you want to make political change your choices are incredibly restricted.

• The wasted vote is the vote cast For the same people that have caused most of our problems for the last several decades, thinking that somehow, for some reason they’re going to do it different this time.
• I plan on voting, but it won’t be for the red fascist or blue fascist.
• If they can’t manage to get control it’s perhaps because they suck at governing and are not worth the vote

And I am sure many would leave the DNC if they had the means and ability to be accepted elsewhere. Unfortunately our electoral systems are set up so that if you're not in one of the two parties, your chances of winning are nil in many cases.

Their whole account is filled with shitting on blue candidates to convince people to abandon them.

I was doing a reductio ad absurdum. I'm not doing a meme.

Or natives

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/nx-s1-5113917/trump-apparent-assassination-attempt-shooting-suspect

It seems like the only shots that were fired were from the secret service.

This post is how I found out about this 2nd attempt.

You're basically saying that there is zero overlap in the venn diagram of third party voters and blue voters, yet you make efforts to convince blue voters to go third party. You know damn well that there is overlap between third party voters and blue voters, otherwise you'd never talk to them.

Even if you personally would never vote blue, third party voters are not a monolith, there are third party voters that are closer to the DNC than you are.