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And it won't even be over on Tuesday no matter who wins.

I just have to start distracting myself when it happens.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

People choose third party because they want to send a message to their preferred established party or the party they would have voted for - but all it does is show the people funding these candidates that they're effective spoilers when used correctly. You're enabling the genocide by not voting in a meaningful way, Trump has said multiple times now he's on the phone with Netanyahu trying to stop a cease fire and anyone with a brain sees that the fascist leaders are trying to stick together.

The fact that the Biden administration and the current Congress are still supplying weapons for this genocide is appalling and I hate them for it. But there are is more than one issue at stake and as I said originally voting third party is demonstrating a fundamental inability to understand the trolley problem. You cause more death and suffering when you vote third party or when you vote Trump. It's plain and simple. You can reply to every comment with bullshit questions and try to justify what you did, but you didn't think it through and obviously your vote alone doesn't make a difference but you defending your bullshit online does. People read this and you might encourage another person who's on the fence to vote third party and in doing so multiply the pain and suffering you caused.

Trump would cause Ukraine to lose more lives, Israel would go on killing without fear of losing supplies, any other strong arm leader would have no fears about the US intervening, more women in the US would die to healthcare issues, immigrants in the US will continue to experience worse and worse hate crimes until they get rounded up and deported (or worse) as Trump said he wants to, journalists, democrats, _and real third party leaders _ would be in danger as Trump has said he wants to execute his opponents, the police will continue to be militarized at an accelerated rate, progressive climate change policies will be stopped/neutered and we'll lose decades of potential progress causing untold amounts of suffering, on and on and on.

Get your head out of your ass and think about the big picture. Show some fuckin empathy for others. You fucked up by voting like the only people in the world were Palestinians, that's fine and noble in an extremely immature and futile way, but shut the fuck up before other people follow suit and people die because you didn't think things through to completion.