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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • The issue isn’t how people used their votes. The issue is that 20 million people didn’t show up to vote.

    With the math available, every single Democratic voter could have voted 3rd party and Trump would still have won. Third party voters had little to no effect on this election, outside of those who were swaying to say don’t vote at all. 50 to 100 thousand third party votes from each state just don’t make the numbers needed for the E.C. votes.

    We needed voters, period. They didn’t show up.








  • Yeah lol. I’m not usually one for whattaboutism but it is extremely hypocritical to be currently engaged in providing arms to and siding with an extermination and talk about a different human rights violation that isn’t ours. The tragic and indefensible actions from the past such as Tienanmen Square or the Tuskegee experiments can never be erased but should be used as references for things from our history to not repeat. Mao Zedong initiated the Great Leap Forward policy that lead to the death of 45 million people and their culture and heritage, some regard him as the best thing that could have happened to China by increasing the literacy and housing by a massive amount (which just happened to coincide with the 45 million deaths that are completely irrelevant), and now the U.S. is an aid in the same position Israel/Zionists razing Palestine.

    The amount of culture and heritage already lost is appalling and it really is a “look in the mirror” moment for the U.S.

    Relatedly unrelated: I think about the Uyghur and Syrian refugee’s often and am often saddened by how we did not give them refuge and some politicians like Ben Carson even insulting the refugees comparing them dogs.







  • When the third party candidate admits that their campaign is solely to siphon away votes from Democrats? And the Republican alternative has actively stated Palestine should be wiped out by Israel?

    Can’t vote Democrat because support of Israel. That means you also can’t support Republicans, because they support the full extent of the genocide even more. And that means you can’t support (most) 3rd party candidates, because the Green Party is primarily funded by Republican donors and, quote,

    "Trump, has embraced Kennedy as an ally, has previously spoken fondly of both Stein and West.

    “Cornel West, he’s one of my favorite candidates,” Trump said during a campaign rally in Philadelphia in June. “I like her also, Jill Stein, I like her very much. You know why? She takes 100% from them. He takes 100%.”

    So that leaves us with… A candidate who at least is saying a 2 state solution, and one who told Israel to finish the job. Plus you know, all of the American focused policies, such as education.

    With this in mind, and with how the events of 2016’s election turned out, you can understand why people are suspicious about 3rd party voting, right?


  • As opposed to… Supporting Trump, who has told Israel to finish the job? Who has no interest even feigning a possibility of a two state solution? The one who stopped aiding Ukraine in 2019? Who’s supporters have made trans and POC politicians step down because they wouldn’t stop receiving death threats after Trump was elected? Who singlehandedly dismantled the EPA to kill corporate regulations, the CDC resulting in the deaths of millions of Americans, and our education system by planting Betsy DeVoss, whose brother is Eric Prince founder of Blackwater?