• elliot_crane@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That would require them being capable of critical thinking, and anyone willing to vote third party clearly lacks in that department.

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      2 months ago

      Critical thinking would lead you to vote third party.

      What they lack is a specific piece of electoral information about first past the post voting: https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

      Combine the understanding that america–deeply unfortunately–uses first past the post voting with critical thinking, and it’s obvious third parties are, for now, a waste.

      But if you wrongly accuse them of not having critical thinking skills, they’ll use their critical thinking skills, which they have, to assume that you are not a good source of information, even though you’re encouraging them in the right direction.

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        2 months ago

        No. Critical thinking skills preclude even entertaining the notion of voting third party, because critical thinking skills would lead one to comprehend how FPTP and the EC work, and realize the all-but-guaranteed mathematical impossibility of electing a third party president.

        Anyone who proudly proclaims to vote third party is one of the following, without exception:

        • an uninformed idealist, aka a useful idiot
        • a bad actor
        • an entitled jackass with zero disregard for the effects of their actions

        In any of these cases, I wouldn’t trust these people with a butter knife let alone a ballot. But that’s not my call, so I call them out for what they are.

        E: forgot a word

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        2 months ago

        Sure, but we all give them that specific piece of electoral information in nearly every thread.

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        2 months ago

        your video reaches the wrong conclusion. values voting is the only way to stop party consolidation. the problem is strategic voting.