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I voted for Howie Hawkins

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Great that you voted, but third party basically throws your vote away in a first-past-the-post system.

Let’s look at three situations:

Scenario 1:

D: 1001 votes R: 1000 votes H: 0 votes

D wins


Scenario 2:

D: 1000 votes R: 1000 votes H: 1 vote

Tied election, decided by the House, so R wins


Scenario 3:

D: 999 votes R: 1001 votes H: 2 votes

R wins


This is why it makes enormous sense to avoid third parties in most of the US, and choose the major-party candidate you’d rather negotiate with.

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I live in NY. My vote doesn’t matter anyway.

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There are a ton of congressional, state, and local races where it matters

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True but that’s a false equivalence

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But yeah sit this one out because Biden isn’t dramatically changing long standing us policy.

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Either way Palestinians get slaughtered, but only one way Democrats will oppose it.

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Trump scum cannot be reasoned with!

Swallow your pride and vote Biden.

I also hate the choice of lesser “evil”… but, do it!

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Just repeat the mantra “three supreme court justices” over and over. Even if nothing else, the next president will almost certainly shape the court for decades to come. Alito, Sotomayor, and Thomas will all almost certainly retire or die in the next four years.

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Okay, good fucking luck with that. You can’t deport natural-born citizens. What a fucking dumb fuck.

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You definitely can — you don’t have basic rights during a deportation hearing, such as the right to an attorney. All it takes is a bunch of law enforcement who are willing to do it and orders from above.

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I said natural-born, not immigrants. This is stated by the 14th Amendment. If you are born in the U.S., legally Feds can’t deport you.

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You’re forgetting one thing - the constitution is just paper. It’s not gonna storm out of the archives and hunt down people who violate it. If the republican party decides to ignore it (which they have MANY times), then they’re gonna ignore it. Sure, you can piss and moan about it being illegal during the entire flight to wherever they’re sending you, but that doesn’t change the fact that you’re still on that flight.

Fight against it NOW, before you’re stuffed on a plane to somewhere else.

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The key word in there is legally.

I see no indication that Trump would be in any way constrained by the law if in power again.

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