• mycodesucks@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Okay, it’s my turn.

    The democrats don’t inspire you with confidence? Fair.

    The greens? The socialists? I’ve looked at Jill Stein… I’ve looked at De La Cruz… They don’t impress me either. In the same way you don’t owe the democrats a vote, progressives don’t owe a vote to a candidate just because they’re not a republican or democrat. Find someone inspiring and take advantage of the fact the internet has unprecedented reach.

    I just looked at your post history. You’ve been here a year. I don’t see a SINGLE post supporting a third party candidate. You’re not stumping for Stein… You’re not stumping for anybody. Do you want them to MAGICALLY gain support?

    Speaking of practicing what you preach… How am I supposed to get behind a third party candidate when the people who are ostensibly on that side can’t even be bothered?

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      21 hours ago

      that’s because .world defederated from the most active core of the leftists lemmyverse and effectively robbed you of the needful information that you need to make an informed choice; just like the democrats like to do to its base.

      do yourself a favor and join another instance and maybe then you’ll see how proud i have been to throw my support (both voting and canvasing) for psl.

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        21 hours ago

        Okay, that may be the case, and that may be fair, but if you’re only posting into instances that already support you, is it really helpful?

        No third party candidate will win without support. Support must be visible and passionate. And it must be visible and passionate to people who aren’t already on your side, otherwise it’s an echo chamber. Nobody - not Republicans, not Democrats, not Greens, not Socialists, is going to win by waiting for people to come seek THEM out.

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          11 hours ago

          you’re literally reading my comments from an instance that is capable of tolerating other instances that do not align with them politically; your instance is not capable of that and that makes it much more of an echo chamber than mine.

          and politics is a responsibility that you have to do as an functioning adult; like taxes or clothing yourself. only the rich can afford to outsource their responsibilities and they have done so through the democrats and republicans.

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            3 hours ago

            Look, I disagree with your take on .ml being tolerant, since I actually started there. But we need to stop engaging with this fucker. They’re already a vacuous husk of a soul that still thinks it lives. They’ve decided that inaction is prudence, and apathy is wisdom, and nothing we do will convince them otherwise.

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          19 hours ago

          The user is a fascist apologist. I wouldn’t expect too much out of them.