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Socialist Mormon Satanist@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 9 months ago

Opinion: I'm a Republican who can't support Trump. I'm voting for Cornel West instead.

www.usatoday.com

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Opinion: I'm a Republican who can't support Trump. I'm voting for Cornel West instead.

www.usatoday.com

Socialist Mormon Satanist@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 9 months ago
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I am a longtime Republican who feels disaffected from the mainstream Republican Party but who can't ignore the failures of the Democratic Party.
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    This says a lot about West’s base lol

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      Maybe, but I believe they’re just feeling alienated by the two-party system.

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        Yes, it’s bad, and we’ll fix it locally first with things like RCV.

        I keep seeing your posts and I get where you’re coming from. Early in my voting career I voted for Ralph Nader. I lived in MA at the time and I had hoped that a third party would get traction. I knew it didn’t matter in MA, knowing that the Democrat would win my state. However, what you continuously encourage is very dangerous on a national level. It’s very dangerous when Trump is the other option. It’s almost like you want him to win.

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          I’m not encouraging anything though. I’m just posting interesting articles.

          I think people should vote for whoever they want to.

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            “I’m just asking questions”

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              And I’m just posting articles. I have always said that people should vote for who they want to vote for. That hasn’t changed.

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            I think you should admit that you want Trump to win

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              Why?

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                Because that’s what u/paf0 believes. Who do you want to win? Be honest.

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                  Rachele Fruit, of the Socialist Workers Party. I created and mod a community for that party, an x.com account, and a mastadon account for them. I’m donor and volunteer for the campaign as well.

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                    What do you think your odds of winning look like?

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                    It’s funny that you’re adding the community creation line to your script, because literally anyone can create any community for any reason. It means nothing.

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                    Oh boy, a whole twitter account!

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            By posting you are encouraging. But you knew that already.

            I think that people shouldn’t post propaganda, yet here we are…

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              I’m not encouraging anything. Are you saying that Lemmy’s can’t think for themselves and would vote against Harris just because of something I posted?! Really?!

              Because you’re not saying that, then no harm in me posting, right?

              Is everything that’s not a vote for Harris, “propaganda” to you?! LMAO

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                I’m saying that you’re just as bad as propagandists for posting propaganda.

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                  I don’t post propaganda tho. Are all the Harris articles here “propaganda?”

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                    I’m not talking about Harris articles. I’m talking about this very post.

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          They are here to drown out the legitimate conversations and pick fights in the comments.

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            Who?

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              OP

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                Perhaps, but you are here to stand on a soapbox and advocate for a third parties. You’re not wrong, you’re just a broken record and an being an ass about it. Read my comment above again. This isn’t a regular election where people can just throw away votes on Jill Stein or Cornell West- unless of course you want Trump to win, and I’m starting to believe you do.

                Edit: similar user names, I am mixing up my satanists, my apologies.

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                  I’m not OP.

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                    Yes, I see that now, similar user names, sorry.

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        bOtH bAd

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          They are both bad.

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      He has fewer Republicans endorsing him than Kamala does

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        Rates matter, not raw numbers

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        That’s a good thing.

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