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If you guys

I’m not one of “those guys” advocating specific 3rd party candidates. Sadly, none of the current choices are viable.

I’m just pointing out your overreaction, which is just as much of a distraction from the REAL issues you pretend to care about.

actually cared to solve the issues

Yeah, because mentioning 3rd parties means that you don’t care about anything else at all. What a galaxy brained take 🙄

campaigning to to first and foremost get electoral reform to make third parties even remotely viable instead of trying to work within this extremely broken, barely democratic system.

That’s exactly what I’m doing, depending on how wide your definition of “campaigning” is. Just because I correct your hysteria doesn’t mean that you have to create a strawman of me that totes loves Jill Stein or whatever 🙄

You’d also be doing work at a local politics where real change can be made

In my case, “local” is part of Denmark, a country with a much better election system. Doesn’t mean that I can’t have knowledge and opinions about US politics and the kinds of absolutist “us or them” language that bears some of the responsibility for the duopoly surviving in spite of what the vast majority of the population wants.

Also, just FYI: assuming that everyone is able to be active in local politics beyond online discussions reeks of privilege and ableism.

rather than just throwing a candidate out for president every election

Again lumping me in with a group to which I don’t belong.

You won’t do that though because you’re all a bunch of weird idealists with fantastical views of how politics work

Aaand again. Are you going for some kind of record in strawmen and jumping to conclusions? Because if so, you’re doing an excellent job so far.

I’m interested in following news thats grounded in reality

Me too. I’m also interested in discussing the news using language grounded in reality, rather than weird hyperbole making a small minority out to be a dominant force and tormentor ruining everything.

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Being not from America, you have NO PLACE telling people how they should vote. And no one has the obligation to take nothing you say seriously at all.

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Never told anyone how to vote, so you can pack that strawman away.

We have a saying over here: when America sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

We live in an interconnected world where what the world’s foremost superpower does profoundly effects literally billions of people.

There’s nothing weird about a European being interested in and knowledgeable about American politics.

Dismissing my input based on geography alone ON THE INTERNET makes it a good thing that no one has the obligation to take anything a fool like you says seriously at all either.

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Riiiiiight. You do know your comment history is public, right? Because aside from the metric fuckton of misinformation that is removed when you post, you CLEARLY have an anti-democrat and pro socialist agenda to push on an election that you have nothing to do with.

Go sit down. When Denmark becomes relevant to our election, we’ll call you.

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As much as I’m tempted, I’m not interested in getting to a debate with you about this. For someone mad about me ‘jumping to conclusions’ you sure made a whole lot of assumptions about me that aren’t really true.

Whether my rant was directed at you, or one of the handful of other Jill Stein nutjobs on here doesn’t really matter, I’ve said my piece.

Have a great day.

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For someone mad about me ‘jumping to conclusions’ you sure made a whole lot of assumptions about me that aren’t really true.

Which ones specifically? I did you the courtesy of being specific about how and where you were wrong about me. If you’re gonna go “no you!”, it would behoove you to do the same rather than being as vague as a teenager posting on Facebook on a bad day.

Whether my rant was directed at you, or one of the handful of other Jill Stein nutjobs

I specifically informed you that I don’t consider any of the third party candidates viable and have not said anything to the contrary to indicate that I support Stein in any way. I don’t, for the record.

I’m not interested in getting to a debate with you about this.

Because you don’t have any counterarguments. You just lie, misrepresent, and demand that everyone believes you. Which seems to be working in this case since it’s taking place in a pro-DNC echo chamber almost half as tribalist as the fascist ones.

I’ve said my piece.

Now I have too. Have the day you deserve.

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This has to be some kind of chatgpt essay blend. How are you able to write so much based on so little? All your comments are like walls of text responses to like one liners. I just don’t get it. How? How do y’all have so much time on your hands???

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They’re not even American, yet telling us how we should vote. That’s about as bad faith as it gets.

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