• @[email protected]
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    miniscule amount of votes they do get - you’re not moving any metrics

    If that’s true then why do you care? It’s a miniscule amount that’s not moving anything.

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      Let’s build some towers out of blocks and see whose is biggest!

      The Dem tower is 48 blocks tall. The GOP Tower is 49 blocks tall. The 3rd party tower is 3 blocks tall. That 3 block tower isn’t enough to win, but if they stacked onto the Dem tower, that’s the difference between 4 years of status quo and 4 years of fascism.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        There are only 9 blocks that matter and 6 of them are in the GOP Tower.

      • @GreenKnight23
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        I know a lot of hard lefties that would be very upset if they could math right now.

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        Huh sounds like the people who have 3 blocks have a lot of influence. Considering the stakes shouldn’t the ones with the big towers be trying to appease the ones with three blocks?

        I mean this doesn’t sound insignificant at all. I thought they were “not moving any metrics”?

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          Huh sounds like the people who have 3 blocks have a lot of influence. Considering the stakes shouldn’t the ones with the big towers be trying to appease the ones with three blocks?

          By appeasing the 3 blocks, you’ve now lost 10 blocks from your own tower. Congratulations!

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          Sure, let’s go down this line of reasoning. You appease the 3 blockers, and lose 10 blocks in the process. Now the Dem tower is 41 and the GOP tower is 59. Objectively a bad trade. What incentive does that provide?

        • @GreenKnight23
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          so it’s, “our way or Hitler 2.0?”

          doesn’t sound very progressive to me. kinda sounds like…

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            so it’s, “our way or Hitler 2.0?”

            Isn’t “Our Way” the whole Green New Deal to save everyone on the planet from roasting alive due to climate change?

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              And when your analytics shows that adopting those policies will lose you more voters than you’d gain from the likely third party vote, what then?

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          45 hours ago

          Sounds more like the people with three blocks know the consequences of a Trump victory and are using their vote as ransom to make demands over a single issue that will get far worse if Trump wins.

          So in essence. The people with three blocks are entitled and ignorant and quite possibly purposefully helping Trump win.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        It’s crazy that the average American voter doesn’t know what the electoral college is.

        • @GreenKnight23
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          it’s crazy the average hard lib is a humorless husk of a human being with zero awareness of what a joke is.

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      Some states/districts have come down to a few hundred or a few thousand votes. I don’t agree with the above comment that it doesn’t matter. Third parties are spoilers