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The lack of snide comments about the US educational system is deeply disturbing.
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votes 3rd party
I voted 3rd party as a Green voter last presidential election, and when I looked at the actual numbers I saw that lately we have been outnumbered by the Libertarian voters as well... so, if someone is ~~advocating~~ arguing* that 3rd party voters take away votes from the two major parties then I think it seems important that that ideology would also be applied to Libertarians. I wonder if Democrat voters really think that the most hardcore small-government, pro-gun voters are also going to cast a vote for them if they were compelled to cast a vote of one of the two major parties instead of their 3rd party?
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There it is again: "Democrat voters."
Do you know why that's a notable thing to me that I'm bringing it up, I wonder?
You seem to be confusing a social responsibility to vote for a viable candidate (which this thread is referring to) with advocating for a compulsory two party system (which is a terrible idea)
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Speaking personally as a brit i'm not going to comment on whatevers going on with the american election but in the case of britain at least im absolutely not going to be voting for Keir Starmer since most of the left neoliberals in this country telling me i have to swallow my pride and vote for the most right wing and second worst (to his "credit", unlike Tony Blair, he doesnt have the blood of a million iraqis on his hands, only 30,000 palestinians) party leader labour's had in recent memory were the exact same people 5 years ago saying they couldnt in good faith vote for the most far left, trans positive labour leader in decades because he criticised Israel which led to the largest conservative majority in years.
Under Sir Kid Starver, Labour stopped members from voting for a ceasefire right at the start of the Palestinian genocide, members have repeatedly been expelled over bogus antisemitism charges, starmerite labour's trying to push to have the NHS privatised, the party has pivoted so far to the right that you have promiment members saying “Margaret Thatcher was a visionary leader for the U.K; no doubt about it", they've proposed policies to segregate trans people out of single sex NHS hospital wards and those are just the things from the last few months or so that i remember off the top of my head.
I'm going to vote for the Greens instead.
- I'm not even from the US: Check
- Claim of LGBTQ identity: Check
- Lots of the content posted by the user is just generically-relatable memes: Check
- Account was recently created: Check
- Emotional framing ("left neoliberals in this country telling me i have to swallow my pride and vote for"): Check
I actually guessed that most of those would be true, and the point of view that the message would express, the instant I read "Speaking personally as a brit" and before I expanded the message.
- At no point was in weighing on talking about the US, I was talking about the UK. I even said "as a brit i’m not going to comment on whatevers going on with the american election"
- I'm not "claiming" my queerness or some shit, i live it and i face the consequences of living it
- yes, most of my posts are in the garfieldist subreddit which i made because i like garfield and the femcel_posting sub for transfems because I'm a transfem and i find the memes funny, sorry that i have a personality and other interests that arent just politics
- my account is literally almost three times older than yours
- the thing you posted was far more emotive than mine and literally accuses anyone who doesnt want to vote for an accomplice to genocide of saying "vulnerable people should die for my ideology" (frankly i dont care which people vote for but to say anyone protesting bidens complicity in the bombing of gaza just want to kill gay people or whatever while the democratic party tells them they just have to accept that "palestinians should die for our ideology" so that biden can win the election is disgusting), but because i very briefly expressed in just one sentence a fraction of the anger i feel at the (entirely cis) starmerite talking head harpies in this country who supported the tory majority into power so that we've had five years of uncontested rule by them and who arent affected in the slightest by the institutionialised transphobia of the conservative and labour parties yet expect me to come happily to vote for the man who entirely bulldosed the most progressive party britain has ever had and is directly calling for me and people like me to be segregated out of our crumbling healthcare service suddenly im the one being emotional or whatever?
im not even refusing to vote, im just voting for a different party which isnt actively trying to screw me over, why would i ever vote for Sir Keir "trans rights can’t override women’s rights" Starmer?
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I didn't know the US had a monopoly on democracy.
Also saying they 'claim' lgbtq identity is inherently dehumanizing. Fuck you.
How about you reply to the actual comment instead of attacking the posters character.
Also your account is only 3 months old and you're complaining that their account is newly created? Fuck offffff
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I like how the last one called Kris Mates a man.
Kris is typically a male name, and they probably just rolled with that. Not really anything there beyond that lol
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