Victoria Antoinette @ VictoriaAScharleau @lemmy.world

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I'm not joining a club i dont want to be in. characterize me any way you like, and I'll gladly do the same for you.

so when do I stop getting blamed for what everyone else votes for?

I don't vote for imperialists, so they weren't choices either

that's how I felt since I voted for Obama and he didn't close gitmo. so I may as well not support them if they don't care about me.

Insisting that it won’t happen because you feel like it shouldn’t happen

that didn't happen here.

the same way that gas inexorably diffuses or water flows downhill.

no, those can be calculated and predicted. the same isn't true for the rate at which political parties are created or dissolved.

First-past-the-post electoral systems inexorably develop into two-party systems because of the mechanism that he describes

this is the crux of duverger's "law" which is not a law at all but actually a tautology.

if I vote for somebody who doesnt align with me I can't win at all.

game theory assumes that we have rational actors acting in their own best interests. That's not what people do. game theory doesn't predict what people will do.

his charcterization isn't scientific fact. it is opinion.

cgpgreys video does not say it's the same as not voting

the video you linked called it strategic voting, and the real takeaway from that video is that strategic voting leads to voters having fewer choices and losing representation.

I would also accept a libertarian socialist. liberals aren't leftists, though, and Democrats are liberal at best. some are much worse.

barrack "I'll kill you at a wedding" Obama, barrack "I lied about closing gitmo" Obama, barrack "expand the surveillance state Obama is not going to tell me what to do.

this is also not evidence that Democrats even know where the left is.

when you get me a democrat that wants to close the prisons and the banks and end the institution of private property and the state, I will vote for them.

isn't there some irony that you're linking papers about conspiracy theories while parroting the blueanon russophobia?

your accusation of bad faith is, itself, bad faith

If leftists are so numerous and their views so popular

they never made such a claim. in fact, all the evidence is that dems don't care if leftists vote at all.

that's how I feel about people blaming others for Israel killing kids.

everyone already opposes Israels aggression. releasing hostages won't have any impact on that

Israel can stop agressing right now. your insinuation that I'm not even human is disgusting.