PHOENIX (AP) – The 2024 presidential election is drawing an unusually robust field of independent, third party and long shot candidates hoping to capitalize on Americans’ ambivalence and frustration over a likely rematch between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump.

  • @dvoraqs
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    71 year ago

    Hopefully enough others will vote anyway out of a sense of duty, but non-enthusiastic energy for a candidate will keep some people from going out to vote at all. That is actually a third default choice that takes no energy to do.

    • Blackbeard
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      171 year ago

      I don’t know what point you’re trying to make. If you told me to swim through a pit of jellyfish to keep Trump away from the White House, I would swim through the fucking jellyfish. Others might chicken out so they can eat cheetos and watch Paw Patrol. Fuck them.

      • don
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        71 year ago

        Right beside you, fellow jellyfish-eater. Right beside you.

      • @Ensign_Crab
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        31 year ago

        I don’t know what point you’re trying to make. If you told me to swim through a pit of jellyfish to keep Trump away from the White House, I would swim through the fucking jellyfish.

        Others may not, and Biden may lose without them.

        • Blackbeard
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          01 year ago

          I get the worry, but in all honesty if they haven’t been absolutely terrified by Trump’s rhetoric over the past 7 years, what the fuck else are we supposed to say to convince them? Biden may lose without them. He may also win with them. Your observation seems like an assessment of the wetness of water. It’s a statement of fact with little substance.

          • @Ensign_Crab
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            11 year ago

            Ok, just expect the same thing that worked for you to work for everyone.

            • Blackbeard
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              -11 year ago

              That’s quite literally not what I’m saying, even if you squint REAL hard. Here, I’ll repeat the question for those in the back row:

              if they haven’t been absolutely terrified by Trump’s rhetoric over the past 7 years, what the fuck else are we supposed to say to convince them?

              • @Ensign_Crab
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                11 year ago

                what the fuck else are we supposed to say to convince them?

                Repeat yourself again. I’m sure that’ll work.

                  • @Ensign_Crab
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                    11 year ago

                    And when repeating the same failed argument doesn’t work, the insults commence.

    • @APassenger
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      31 year ago

      I’ve made this point here in the past. It’s a solid point. Wish it didn’t lead to down votes.

      If a person isn’t well off, has poor ballot situations and a kid to tend to… their enthusiasm matters when that next logistical hurdle appears on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.