• Guamer [she/her]
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    8 days ago

    Or you could just try not sucking so hard that tiny 3rd parties can "spoil" races for you.

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  • Rom [he/him]
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    8 days ago

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    The Libertarian got more votes than the Green Party candidate. If they had banned all third parties, those voters probably would have went R and the Dems would still have lost.

    • plinky [he/him]
      hexagon
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      8 days ago

      Libertarian at least also are anti-genocide shrug-outta-hecks

        • plinky [he/him]
          hexagon
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          7 days ago

          Somehow that's a better argument than watching libs rotating around black hole named empire, and acting like bibi-masterfully-lied-to-us smoll beans

  • Rom [he/him]
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    8 days ago

    I don't know anything about that race but I'm willing to bet nonvoters outnumbered Green Party voters by at least one magnitude.

    Okay for shits and giggles I looked it up. Sources some local news and nbc. Keeping in mind Casey (D) lost by a margin of 15,115 votes:

    • Total registered voters in PA: 9,161,978

    • Total votes cast: 6,963,137

    • Nonvoters: 2,198,841

    • Green votes: 66,388

    Also just looking at Democrats specifically:

    • Registered Democrats: 3,971,607

    • Votes for Casey (D): 3,384,180

    • D voters who sat home: 587,427

    But yeah Green voters totally cost you that election bro

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      8 days ago

      The monstrous Greens gobbled up almost 1% of the vote. Is the DNC afraid they'll break the 1% barrier or something?

      Is my math right?

      • Rom [he/him]
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        8 days ago

        0.95% of the vote, which NBC generously rounded up to 1.0%.

  • SupFBI [comrade/them]
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    8 days ago

    Wild to assume that the votes cast for the GP candidate would have defaulted to D. I hate it here.

    • hotcouchguy [he/him]
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      8 days ago

      The party who's only appeal is a protest vote against the Democrats?

      • regul [any]
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        8 days ago

        The Green Party exists to do lesser evilism if you can't vote PSL.

  • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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    8 days ago

    Wonder why they don't go after Republicans as aggressively as they do "Republican enablers" thonk

  • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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    8 days ago

    Republican-enablers'

    projection levels off the charts, just like the hitler particles hitler-detector and what's up with that ' ? Was that just a typo or is there some arcane grammatical nerd reason for it?

    • courier8377 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      8 days ago

      Possessive, referring to the infrastructure (object of the verb dismantle) owned by the rep-enablers. Hence rep-enablers' infra

      🤓☝️ signing off

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    8 days ago

    It is known: democrats do not value democracy, they value control.

    • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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      8 days ago

      they don't even care about control all that much, in terms of winning races and seats. they care about absolute control within their own party, but don't really mind if they're in the wilderness fund raising for years

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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        8 days ago

        The one thing the Democratic party has going for it is absolute whip control over membership and reps.

        You rarely see Democratic reps stepping out of line. With some exceptions from independents running as Dems.

        The Republican party is a disorganized mess by comparison.

        (This is by no means an endorsement of the Democratic party, and more just an observation of how they all fall in line immediately when given orders)

        • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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          7 days ago

          The Manchins, Sinemas, Fettermans and Liebermans of congress might seem like they are acting out of pocket, but they all take orderly turns as the rotating villain to block anything that capital doesn’t like. They are still obeying the Democrat leadership

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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            7 days ago

            It's all a play. The Democrats are terrifyingly good at operating as a hivemind. The Republican party is trying to achieve the same thing by closing ranks within their party and following godking Trump. When he dies in the next 2-4 years, they won't have anything or anyone that can hold them together.

            Meanwhile the Dems can operate on autopilot and just do exactly what the donor class wants with basically no input because they're led like dogs from the media and donor events.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    8 days ago

    James this is ridiculous. The Green Party and the libertarians are allowed to exist on the ballot

    The job of the DNC isn’t to teach a political science class - it’s to win elections. Nothing more, nothing less.