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    I might be misremembering the electoral values of the states here, but I think the combined value of the states they’re not official write ins or on ballot is only 64.

    That leaves 474 electoral votes that psl could get, so they very much could win.

    The history of the party is easy to find. They’ve been around for a little while now.

    I’d choose a party with no track record over one with a consistent track record of genocidal violence and extrajudicial killings, but luckily psl has a track record of grassroots activism that’s pretty consistent, so I don’t have to take a gamble.

    It’s a bit absurd to call opposition to genocide and apartheid unproven, untested policy.

    I’m swiftly climbing the ladder of age and my whole life people have been saying “well, you should have been advocating for this or that last year, it’s too late now, this is the most important election of our lifetime!”

    The best time to vote (and do groundwork for) psl was last year, the second best time is now!

    I agree with the last part though, don’t listen to people peddling tired cliches and misinformation trying to manipulate you into voting one way or the other!

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      News flash genius…. Most everyone here is opposed to genocide. As has been said before, you’re not part of some fringe grassroots group that figured out that genocide was bad ahead of everyone else.

      Stop with that shit. I don’t believe you’re here in any good faith to help anyone in any way.

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        If most everyone is opposed to genocide then I agree with them and want to help them find parties and candidates that oppose it too, like psl!

        What party in opposition to genocide do you support?

        I’m not going to stop politely and courteously advocating for the party and candidate I think is appropriate in threads where it’s on topic in a political comm.

        It might not be a good idea to accuse people of bad faith when you open up with a sarcastic insult. World is pretty strict about that stuff, it’s like their number one rule.

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          I accused you of bad faith because that’s what I think you are. And I think the PSL is hot garbage and that’s why no one is taking them seriously.

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            Is there an argument I could make from my position that wouldn’t read as bad faith to you?

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              You’re here trying to garner support for the hopeless psl within weeks of an election, so….

              No.

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                I was trying to garner support for the psl here months before the election too, and years before it in real life organizing.

                Just for the sake of completeness, if you can’t see a persons position as having a good faith form, doesn’t that mean you’re the person here in bad faith? If you truly believed there was no earnest true believer doctrinaire communist that was committed to their party of choice because they really thought it was the best use of their and everyone else’s time, wouldn’t you just report me as misinformation or whatever and move on?

                I’ve always considered bad faith to be not the person I disagree with but the person who isnt willing to engage with anything I’m saying, to assume that there’s a human being on the other side of the capacitive predictive text thumb pad and that they have reasons behind what they’re saying that are worth listening to.

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                    It’s not clear from your comment, who is actively trying to undermine an election, me or the party for socialism and liberation?

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        Most everyone here is opposed to genocide.

        Most everyone here is also voting for the Democrats, instead of agreeing to vote for a third party who is opposed to genocide

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          Again… everyone is against genocide. Your bad faith accusations aren’t working on anyone anymore. It’s just… cringy as fuck now.

          And so you know- the third party clowns currently running have no viable end game to shut shit down over there. Go ahead and look it up. They say they do- but have no clear answer on how they’d do it that is even remotely viable. But it all looks good to the smug edgelords that think they’re somehow unique because they are against dOiNg gEnoCiDes!

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            What part of cutting military funding by 90% (Claudia de la Cruz’s platform) would fail to stop funding Israel?

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              They will have a barely above zero chance of successfully doing this. My god you people will believe anything won’t you?

              I wonder why they didn’t just say they’re going to end world hunger…. Or cure cancer.

              De la Cruz is a nobody that has no idea what there doing and no chance to ever see a position of authority to create let alone enact any policy that would produce meaningful change.

              She’s a spoiler. And at this point- I’m beginning to think it’s purposeful.