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      That’s not how any of this works. In many states in the USA, your votes for President are for entertainment purposes only; with our electoral college you can actually lose the popular vote and still win the election.

      More and more people are leaving the major parties every day, voters are 40% independent with Ds and Rs at 30% each. I predict that the major parties will continue to lose voters every year, and anti-incumbent voters will increase.

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        That’s exactly how it works in a 2 party system. Voting for a 3rd party is throwing away your vote, no matter how you try to spin it.

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          Eh, if your state goes 70% R and has for the last 50 years, there’s not much you can do. Unless there’s a big movement, 100% of those votes go to R. Getting better local representation might be more worth it.

          It’s a really shitty system that promotes really shitty incentives, and has even shittier outcomes. I generally advocate for strategic voting, but in some places your vote literally doesn’t matter.

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      If every single third party vote was given to Harris she still would have lost.

      Harris was such a historically bad candidate that she literally lost to the couch.

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      “At least i didn’t vote for a fascist who would date his daughter. I voted for the other fascist who supports genocide.”

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      You caught me, everything Kamala did to lose the election was my fault. Campaigning with Cheney? Talking about how much I love my glock while you all fear for your kids lives in grade schools? talking about wanting to always have the strongest military in the world? thats on me. I made her do that. You should have seen how strenuously she objected, but I made it happen-- such is my power.

      Ignoring the working class, and supporting genocide, again, me. Losing the party base across nearly every single voting demographic? me again. I told her to say she wouldnt change a thing from Bidens policies, when they were polling in the 30s. She wanted to be progressive and give the people what they wanted, but I would not let her do that.

      I made Biden stay in the race so late too-- he didnt even want to run again and I made him pretend to be too ego driven to let go. Heck, I made Biden support a far right wing theocratic genocide of innocents. I snuck that in with some other papers and he signed it.

      And why am I so evil? You were correct when you guessed that its because I have no ethics and am secretly a trump supporter. Its time I admit it. Also I am racist and misogynist. Also an antisemite. And I am out to get lgbtq.

      Feels good to get that off my chest. So we can finally put this sad dead horse to bed now right? No more whining?