• TheLameSauce@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I fucking hate this rhetoric.

    Voting for a third party is not “taking a vote away” from anyone.

    You’re arguing with someone who would in all likelihood JUST NOT VOTE if not for an alternative option. If you want assurances that fascism doesn’t get voted in, how about you direct that passion towards getting people to vote for someone, anyone, instead of staying at home? That is the only certain way of getting not-the-GOP-candidate elected time and time again. Republicans always come out to vote in about the same numbers every election. Just get more people voting, and not only do the Dem numbers go up, but the viability of a third party goes up astronomically as well.

    Just VOTE. For anyone!

    • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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      3 months ago

      You’re arguing with someone who would in all likelihood JUST NOT VOTE if not for an alternative option

      Just because the big silly in this conversation is a big silly, doesn’t mean all the sillies are. There’s lots of sillies who are silly enough to vote third party but not silly enough to abstain.