• PugJesus@piefed.social
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    11 days ago

    Maybe it’s because I’m an American, but I’ve never seen a third party candidate that wasn’t a lesser evil.

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      10 days ago

      Honestly at the national level some of them are pretty decent sized evils in their own right. Knowing that at best they stand zero chance of having a positive impact on the election. Often running mostly just to raise money or their profile.

      Jill Stein for instance sharing a table with that traitor Mike Flynn and Vladimir Putin. She knew exactly what she was doing and she got the result she wanted.

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      10 days ago

      I feel good about saying Claudia de la Cruz would be a better president than Donald Trump, and that the DNC machinery is very clear on what kind of candidate they’d have to run to pull votes from the PSL’s voter base.

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        10 days ago

        I feel good about saying Claudia de la Cruz would be a better president than Donald Trump,

        A dead head of cabbage would be a better president than Donald Trump; we’re discussing candidates who are not just a lesser evil.

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          10 days ago

          Oh sorry, I thought we were having a different conversation altogether – reasonable voting strategies for moving the overton window to the left

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            10 days ago

            Ah, no, I just was talking about the general notion of voting for a lesser evil of some sort being necessary in most electoral systems.