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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

third party voting is a signal that maybe things should change

That's great.

Voting 3rd party for president when the party behind that candidate holds absolutely no power or influence is still a stupid thing to do. Voting for a candidate that only gets 0.5% of the votes is not intelligent. And the other 3rd party candidates some people voted for got less than that.

Now, normally, I'd be advocating for people to vote 3rd party for local/state elections so that maybe one day a vote for a 3rd party presidential candidate wasn't a stupid thing to do. But in case you haven't noticed, things are getting pretty fucking sketchy. So this time around I think it would be pretty dumb to vote 3rd party in the midterms because we need to do EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO STOP THE FASCISTS IN CONTROL.

Then, when/if we get things back to a somewhat normal situation, I'd be more than happy to see people voting 3rd party in local/state elections to try to build a 3rd party's influence and I'd probably join them in doing so.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago

I encourage you to talk to people in real life about this