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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If you voted third party, you voted for Trump.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's not how any of this works. In many states in the USA, your votes for President are for entertainment purposes only; with our electoral college you can actually lose the popular vote and still win the election.

More and more people are leaving the major parties every day, voters are 40% independent with Ds and Rs at 30% each. I predict that the major parties will continue to lose voters every year, and anti-incumbent voters will increase.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's exactly how it works in a 2 party system. Voting for a 3rd party is throwing away your vote, no matter how you try to spin it.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 points 15 hours ago

It really is just north korea wit a amrmani belt. But it had to go in debt to buy the belt.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Eh, if your state goes 70% R and has for the last 50 years, there's not much you can do. Unless there's a big movement, 100% of those votes go to R. Getting better local representation might be more worth it.

It's a really shitty system that promotes really shitty incentives, and has even shittier outcomes. I generally advocate for strategic voting, but in some places your vote literally doesn't matter.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago

If every single third party vote was given to Harris she still would have lost.

Harris was such a historically bad candidate that she literally lost to the couch.