When will be your “this is the last fucking time I’m voting for the ‘lesser of two evils’, then I don’t care after that, let this country burn to the ground”? For me, this is basically it. This is last election I’m going for that " lesser of two evils" bullshit. After that I’m done. It’s just pointless. Let’s hear it.

  • VegaLyrae
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    11 year ago

    You guys were voting based on “lesser of two evils” and not based on who you actually like?

    I’ve always just voted for the guy I like best. I never felt that voting tactically was truthful.

    If everyone was like me we’d have a nicer political climate, I think.

    I’ll keep doing that so you can feel free to join me in doing that until we reach the critical mass point.

    • Alto
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      31 year ago

      That’d require there to have ever been a candidate I like. There hasn’t been, at least on the federal level

      • VegaLyrae
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        11 year ago

        You can always skip offices that don’t have a good candidate.

        Spoiled votes are tracked as a separate statistic!

        • Alto
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          Continued complacency by people bitching about candidates not being good enough is how we’re on the knifes edge of destroying our democracy here in the states.

          I don’t like the people I vote for, but I sure as fuck would rather live in our current neolib hellscape than the psuedotheocratic bullshit the loudest voices in the GOP so clearly want. Sitting on your ass enables exactly that

          • Amerikan Pharaoh
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            11 year ago

            Put up a non-genocidal climate expert who’s actually willing to disenfranchise Big Oil, then we can talk; til then, die nameless :)

    • That assumes that there are any viable candidates running that we actually like. That’s becoming more and more a pipe dream, haven’t seen one since Obama.

      • VegaLyrae
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        01 year ago

        Sometimes I have to write someone in, but it still counts as a vote!

          • VegaLyrae
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            11 year ago

            Since you’re talking specifically about the presidential election, I actually am helping my candidate, since if I and others can get 1% of the popular vote for someone, then they can get easier access to ballots, debates, and federal funding next time.

            • No, you’re not helping your candidate, your candidate is beyond help. They’re going to lose. Either Biden is going to win, or Trump is going to win, and if you vote for anyone but Biden, you’re complicit in helping Trump.

        • And? Ever since he left office it’s been one piece of shit after another. It shouldn’t be too much to ask for a presidential candidate to be something besides “less terrible than the other guy”.