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Delighted. Constructive or helpful disagreements are encouraged, and the mods ensure that I hardly ever encounter a bigot.

Oh thats awesome I'll try

hunter2

Its not political so I guess its fair game? :D

The word Hamas is in fact in the same font and seems to fit the spacing of the rest of the text pretty perfectly

I routinely get scores so high that they stop me from carrying on

I play a lot of golf games

No no no no no no no no no no no no no no

Isn't that a character from elden ring

If (hypothetically) they specifically guide you to use more than necessary, thus wasting detergent, theyre making you spend more money on their product, thus extracting money from you.

Microwave popcorn isn't a reasonable analogue because you don't "use more product" following their instructions. Maybe hot chocolate is a good example? Every package I've bought has suggested using basically 2x as much as I find I need to make a mug of it.

Ad hominem

You really had no interest in engaging with me did you? Because I basically fully agreed with you in my previous comment and you said I wasn't open to ideas.

You don't think you can affect change outside of your vote?

That's needlessly dismissive, I was repeating my understanding of what you'd said

I think its quite obvious that the people I'm advising to get out and take action are the people who... aren't? I'm well aware that action is being taken and that it is growing in numbers, but more needs to be done.

That aside, how does voting third party or abstaining from voting affect change against the issues you've highlighted above? Because I don't disagree with the issues you've raised.

I suppose that is a tangible way to affect change under the existing electoral system, so more power to you. I guess, with that in mind, you need to vote third party on an occasion when third party will actually get that 5% threshold, which as you say takes trust.

I'm not convinced that voting for a third party has any positive effect, in one election cycle or over longer time. But I'm open to hearing your perspective.

I mean sure! Take the whole CEO situation and springboard off that, you find yourselves in circumstances similar to pre-revolution France so the conditions are right.

I feel as though there's a significant amount of extra info that isn't strictly conveyed here.

The core issue is that you only have 2 real options in america, third parties may as well not exist. So, come election time, your harm reduction option is to vote for the least evil party.

But that's not the way to solve the issue, and neither is abstaining or voting third party, IMO. The way to solve the issue happens between votes. Picketing, protesting, demonstrating, taking action, making noise. You won't solve the broken 2 party system at election time. But you do have to actually get out and take action, not just say that you will and keep letting the overton window shift right.

(Take with a pinch of salt because I'm not american)

They do, yes. /srs

You're thinking of Mac users. /j

Ah. Thanks for explaining. How vile.

What on earth does this title mean