• Matty Roses@lemmy.today
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    9 days ago

    I didn’t say they would’ve won, stop moving goal posts.

    I said they couldn’t have lost more than Kamala did. Because it was a binary thing on three counts?

    Did she win the Presidency? No.

    Did she keep the Senate? No.

    Did she win the House? No.

    No matter what you think of Claudia De La Cruz or Jill Stein, it’s just a simple fact neither one of them could have given a worse outcome than that one. And given the resources Kamala had, that’s particularly pathetic.

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        8 days ago

        I’m saying it’s literally impossible for them to have performed worse.

        So talking about how third party candidates “can’t win” is nonsense, since the Democrats apparently can’t win either.

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          7 days ago

          Ok so with a winner takes all election, a loser is a loser no matter how many votes they get. Sure. I get that.

          But there’s still more nuance to that. If you got to choose between something that has 49% of a chance of winning or .01% chance of winning, you’d go with the 49%, right? That’s a better chance of keeping the Republicans from winning.

          Don’t get me wrong, Democrats suck ass, and are spineless cowards. But with the system we have now, and had at the last election, they had a better chance of defeating Republicans than the socialist party of America or the Green party.

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            7 days ago

            They didn’t have a better chance though - they lost to a historically bad candidate. Multiple times.

            The Democrats are a problem precisely because they occupy the line of resistance to the GOP. You want to stop the GOP, you’ve got to stop their enablers first.

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              6 days ago

              Well yeah, you do. The problem is that takes a lot of time, and will take massive voting reform, which no one in power has a vested interest in doing.

              But we’re not talking about future plans, we’re talking about what happened in the past. Since there wasn’t that voting reform in the past, there was no way for a third party candidate to win.

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                6 days ago

                And again, you’re pretending that the Democrats didn’t lose as well. If there was no way for a third party candidate to win (because they didn’t) there was also no way for the Democrats to win with how they ran.

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                    3 days ago

                    You’re point is you want to claim people that don’t vote for the Democrats are stupid, because you think that’s the best way to stop the GOP.

                    The problem is the whole Vote Blew No Matter Hoo strategy has been failing for 25 years. It’s what brought you here, and yet you don’t want to accept that.