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That if they vote third party before we can get rid of the first-past-the-post system, they are helping their ideological opposite. And a corollary: if they do it because of the genocide in Gaza and Trump encourages a total wipeout of the Palestinian state like he's telegraphing, the blame for the deaths of those innocent civilians is on them for being self-righteous instead of honest.
It's like everyone forgot the absolute basics of game theory
That we're all prisoners in a prisoner's dilemma?
At those times I love the two rounds system. It's a pain in the arse to go vote twice, and it is by no means perfect, but you can still vote based on your conscience without "wasting" your vote.
For example. This month we got mayor elections here. There were 10 candidates in the first round; I voted in a socialist as usual. They had zero chance to win, but showing them some support is a big deal in the long run - it shows that at least some people are interested in their platform.
Then in the second turn we had Total Piece of Shit vs. Somewhat Shitty. Then I simply voted in Somewhat Shitty to make things not so bad.
I just got banned from a sub for trying to explain this exact thing. Their response was "not that's not how voting works - if I vote for a person, they get my vote. If I don't vote for someone, they don't get my vote." and "Harris is literally saying the same thing." I sent a thank you to the mod for banning me because my brain was breaking.
I have been trying to figure out how to combat this bullshit argument succinctly. So far I am at this:
If you vote for a person, it tips the ratio of votes they recieve (which is the only important thing in our system) in their favor. If you vote third party, not only does the ratio of votes between the two forerunners not change, but you completely throw away your representation.
The way the system is set up right now means that only half of the voting population is even represented by the elected person.
I worry about the state of this country. Half the country doesn't understand tax brackets, I don't expect them to ever understand the problem with FPTP or learn about RCV
You think the ideological opposite of anti-genocide progressives isn't a person responsible for genocide, who spent their career imprisoning mostly black men, and who promises to spend hundreds of millions funding a border wall?
Projection much?
They were likely referring to Trump. Trump is probably the opposite of anti-genocide progressives
The delusions in this space are astounding. Trump is actually responsible for the ongoing genocide??
In the the US laws are passed by the legislative branch, in particular laws around spending are passed by the House of Represtatives. Currently the House or Representatives is controlled by the Republican party, the party of which Donald Trump is the undisputed leader. As such Trump has sufficient control over the Republican party to broadly control the parties legislative priorities, including spending. In fact he has already used this authority to enact his legislative priorities around spending and immigration reform among other things.
Donald Trump has directed the Republican party to support the genocide in Gaza, so the Republican party provides the funding necessary to for the IDF to conduct the genocide in Gaza.
Additionally when Donald Trump was president he did several things to empower Israel including moving the US embassy to Jerusalem and required all Palestinian affairs to go through this embassy.
While the Democratic party has played a part in supporting the genocide, Donald Trump and the Republican party absolutely have the power to stop the US from passing funding bills to arm the IDF and help stop the genocide. Instead he and the Republican party he leads enthusiastically support what Israel has been doing in Gaza and now are trying to do in Lebanon. There's every reason he'll take the US's support for the genocide even further.
Donald Trump somehow controls Biden-Harris's foreign policy??
IIRC, Donald Trump said he'd have ended the genocide sooner...by giving more support to Israel to "finish the job" of eliminating Palestine/Palestinians more quickly. So if that's the alternative you support, then by all means, don't vote for Harris.
Who do you believe is buying a fear mongering hypothetical over the actual reality of genocide happening thanks to Biden and Harris?
So are you Russian or Israeli?
This is something that both the Republican and Democratic leaders agree on. The only difference is the scope. Kind of like how both parties were chasing down Bin Laden.
Why are you desperate to change topics to make this personal?
You think public support for his assassination is equal to public support for the Israeli genocide of Palestinians?
You're not helping the ideological opposite. What you're doing is removing the vote from one of the larger parties that are going to win regardless. The system is rigged against 3rd party and 3rd party will never win the presidency or any major office. At least while the Electoral College is a thing. We should stop with this mindset of "A vote for 3rd party is a vote for the opposition" because it's just propaganda to remove what little power 3rd parties have.
Lemmy really is becoming a great replacement for reddit, it feels just like I'm back there.
I wasn't aware I was here to care about your opinion. I'm always happy to learn new things about myself
Such an enlightened opinion.
Maybe little parties would have more power if they demonstrated actual political power in local elections instead of trying to win pointless votes in the national election.
It doesn't matter. The US political system is deliberately weighed against 3rd party
Let our boy CGP Grey handle that for you:
Https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
Third party can work on solid states. Using 2020 numbers, if every Trump voter in California had voted third party, California would have still went to Biden. But there's an alternative result that would come out. If a third party candidate gets 5% of the popular vote, they are eligible for over $120M in federal funding for the next election. Obviously he Ds and Rs spend way more than that, but a third party could make use of that money. And it only affects the next election really.
yeah just getting some people around to the whole idea that, right now, voting is part of how we all have to work together to get along somehow on this big rock, and that means compromises sometimes. sometimes ugly compromises.