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[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 129 points 1 month ago

!rcv@ponder.cat

Any third party that's telling you to vote for them under FPTP, but isn't heavily promoting RCV to fix the system, isn't trying to win. They're trying to spoil the FPTP election.

RCV is already law in a surprisingly large number of places. It may change the majority in the house in this upcoming election, because the difference in vote-counting within the two states that use it for US congressional elections might be enough to change the razor-thin outcome.

RCV is on the ballot, in one form or another, in 7 states and DC this year. Go vote. You might be able to fix the system, and move toward the future that all the people in this thread who are being vocal about Jill Stein say that they want. Remember back when marijuana was illegal? That changed. This can change too, and it would be glorious, for a lot of important goals that a lot of people claiming to support Jill Stein claim they're supportive of. It would be practical and realistic. It would work.

Anyone in this thread who is saying Jill Stein is extremely important, but haven't been saying anything about ranked choice voting or changing the voting system to make third parties realistic: Why? What's your goal, why did you make that decision about your priorities?

The answer is obvious, of course. But it's fun to ask.

@anticolonialist@lemmy.world, why?

I'll add more @s as more people pipe up. They always do.

Register and vote, for RCV as well as for Harris. We have 25 more days.

https://www.vote.org/

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

The most important youtube video in politics:

Https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

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[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 72 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

2016 Michgan election results

Michigan 2016

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

Can't believe Johnson handed the election to Trump like that.

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 22 points 1 month ago

Even without him, Stein had it handled by herself. Why do you think she’s back? Jr, who was funded by a Repub PAC, dropped out. Then Stein re-appeared.

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[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

Hillary was a terrible candidate. She lost because of that.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 month ago

"Once noble party" - ffs.

Jill Stein is a bad actor in this election, she understands how the electoral college works and she understands she's weakening the democratic party position. But let's not blame shift - the Democrats could be much better on climate change then they are today and if they were better Stein's BS wouldn't have such an easy time attracting voters. I dislike the title posing it as "Stein may hand Trump the whitehouse again."

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago

Even if the argument about getting X% of votes was true, the states to campaign heavy in would be the deep blue/red states. Especially since they tend to get ignored by candidates.

Instead she sticks to the states where <30k votes could decide the election and the market is saturated with the most expensive ad costs

It's blantantly obvious what's she's doing.

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 60 points 1 month ago

Jill Stein is polling at litterally less than measurable numbers.

https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3913&stream=top

"Undecided" represents at least twice the voters Stein appears to be garnering.

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 43 points 1 month ago

Note: Jill is literally paid to run as a spoiler, and if you look at her actual policies, lot of transphobia, ablism, and support for pseudoscience

[-] Soup@lemmy.cafe 10 points 1 month ago

This shouldn’t surprise anyone considering her source.

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

2016 Pennsylvania results

Pennsylvania 2016

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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 month ago

guys it's not that hard, all we have to do is to not vote for still jein.

[-] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

... there were people voting for stein?

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Jill Stein has my vote! Seriously, she took it. Can someone help me get it back?

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

2016 Wisconsin election results

Wisconsin 2016.

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[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't understand why it is taken for granted that if Stein wasn't a candidate the people who vote for her would be voting for the Democrats instead. Just as likely they would not vote at all or vote for some other protest candidate.

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[-] mlg@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

It was nice to see the World News community finally realize that the DNC has been doing nothing but shooting themselves in the foot for a year.

Maybe this community will finally catch on and connect the dots between a random ass 3rd party getting blamed for stealing votes away from the Democrats, and Democrats not actually meeting the core demands of their constituency.

Or maybe not....

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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

jesus christ this thread is a fucking nightmare bro

i feel like i've done three pounds of ketamine just scrolling through these comments.

[-] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Its the genocide thats the problem-- Steins numbres are small.. And Jill Stein owes the dems nothing, she can run if she wants. Thats what democracy is about. So the new republic can suck it.

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

Everything you said is true. But it has nothing to do with the article. It's about how her campaign seems to be more a grift than pushing green policies, and aimed at taking votes from Harris in swing states than actually trying to win any election.

She can obviously do what she wants, but it doesn't appear she is being genuine.

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