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Thing is, he's absolutely right. It's way beyond past time to create a powerful political third party in the US that genuinely represents the interest of the people.
Elon Musk, however, should not be allowed anywhere within brick throwing distance of it.
Nor should most anyone else who is actually capable of funding it. Herein lies our actual problem.
The real problem is with the way elections work. Any third party started in this system that's successful will wind up being absorbed by or absorbing one of the other two.
That's not actually a problem, though. It's better when both parties support your issue; then there is no viable opposition to that issue.
Split the Republican party!
Anyone remember Ross Perot? He created the Tea Party, which eventually took over the Republican party.
Let's hope this causes more Perot-esque vote spoilers on the right wing.
Fuck no. While I very much want more parties, a party created by and for oligarchs would suck the donkiest of elephant balls.
Yeah, you do that buddy, spend lots of money, too. Every single vote he draws will come from HitlerPig, not the Dems.
Excellent idea. You do that, Elon.
"What if we made a party that represented everyone?"
Holy shit, I don't think anyone's thought of that. Jamie, check the web to see if people ever tried creating a party for the rest of us.
Chat, type 1 if you think having a party that represents 80% of America is a good idea.
That's the joke. Every party says they represent most people, but end up in the pocket of the wealthy and corporate interests of it gets big enough
Reminds me of Ye and his public stunts.
Do it you coward.
'I'll make my own party with blackjack and hookers'
The vote of 80% of the people that are lefton Shitter doesn't say much. And how many responded?
Call it American Party X and we have a deal.
Are we gonna have a reverse Obama, were they claim Trump was actually born on Mississippi and that the SA birth certificate is fake?
“I’ll make my owl political party! With blackjack and hookers!”
What a loser. But please, by all means. Fracture Trump's base.
At the same time, let AOC and Sanders make a fourth party, also splintering the Democratic Party.
Until he will be persecuted and will hide in Russia, which will drive Donald to help Ukraine in the end.
I really reallu hooe I will be right.
If anywhere else he'll go to China.
China does not like problems, they want to look calm, affordable and keep aelling their stuff.
I don't really see why they should care about a loser like Musk.
I don't think they'd give him asylum from the goodness of their heart but this man has a lot to offer as long as he's an enemy of the US government.
Plus the whole illegal access to US institution systems Krasnov gave him.
"the 80% of people in the middle" that do Nazi salutes and say Germany should forget the national shame of the Holocaust, while flying to Germany to campaign for and praise the modern day Nazi party...
How very centrist 😅
Tbh I'm a little surprised he didn't say it was 88%
All while being so k-holed out your pee-hole don't work no more... 😋 Aaaand attempting to lure anyone with a working uterus and a twitter account into his weird natal cult...
Clearly just very normal activities that every American engages in on a daily basis.
I like how you have to specify that it's a natal cult because he broke his dick and is effectively infertile through natural means. Also a natal cult is much more pathetic than a sex cult, at least someone is having fun in the sex cult.
Yes, please steal 5-6% of the R vote.
It'll rope in a lot of dem centrists too.
Just call them Republicans.
So then the US will have three right wing parties. Choose your flavor:
I love how this was the thrust of the Russian meddling campaign, using #bothsides to build voter apathy.
I'm not saying you're a Russian meddler, but I know the source of that duck quacking noise I was hearing.
Andrew Yang rn
I'm all for it because it will split Trump's vote, but there's really no point as there won't be free elections for anything more serious than dog catcher in the US until the fash have been forcibly evicted.
The democratic options expired Jan 20th 2025. Resist.
Remember when he was going to make a new iPhone when he was having panic attacks about apple banning twitter? This will be just like that. The guy jumps from thought to thought like the direction of the wind. He can’t follow through on anything himself, he just throws some money at it and pretends that he does the work. So many people could do so much more than him if they had his resources.
What i was thinking, only way he ends up doing this is if someone else does it, it's successful, and he buys the party, that's the only thing he's been good at, and basically what he tried with trump.
i hope he succeeds in creating a third party because it will break the 2 party system and opens the idea to vote for another option to americans.
And i hope the party then gets taken over by people in favor of unions and stuff
Hoping the third party fractures the right is all you can hope for while we're a first-past-the-post voting country. Any new party popular enough to displace a party will simply become the other second party and create the same mediocrity. Until then, it would just siphon votes from the closest two-party option.
The only way this gets fixed is by ranked choice or similar voting systems, that remove the tactical voting incentive.