McCain was a Republican and Kerry is a Democrat. Of course they were viable!
they didn’t win. the label of “viable” is a myth.
McCain was a Republican and Kerry is a Democrat. Of course they were viable!
they didn’t win. the label of “viable” is a myth.
Unless you are introducing a viable candidate
viability is a media myth. kerry was viable. mccain was viable.
You are actively supporting all the negative things about the candidate you agree with least by not voting for one of the two primary candidates.
that’s not what active support is.
you’re accusation of bad faith is, itself, bad faith
this isn’t science, it is story telling
People don’t upvote. You’re more likely to be criticized for a position than engaged with. Opinions that disagree with the hive mind are often quickly downvoted regardless of whether or not the position has validity.
i experience this constantly on lemmy.
it’s heuristic, so it doesn’t matter what layout you use.
that is not the correct analysis. the correct analysis is that strategic voting in a fptp system leads to party consolidation. the solution is values voting
this entire comment is obfuscation. I asked a specific question in response to a specific claim.
3rd party voting or apathy is a vote for your opponent
no, it’s a vote for the so-called third party or no vote at all.
Green party takes votes from Democrats
this is a myth. votes Don’t belong to the Democrats. they belong to the voters. it’s up to candidates to earn votes.
when are votes for anyone but trump allowed to be counted for trump?
this is election misinformation. only a vote for trump can be counted as a vote for trump. a vote for any other candidate cannot be counted for trump.
there are wikipedia articles about both of these topics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_terrorism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_terrorism
and, of course,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_violence
edit:
this is only one metric, but i think it’s notable that there are about 80 references on the left wing page and approximately 3.5 times that many on the right wing page.
no one is raping cows
no one is raping cows
marginalizing an accomplished academic and political activist as a lunatic is gross.