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Are these third party voters in the room with us now?
Yes.
Source: lemmy.ml and lemmygrad
You mean Russian bots and 50-cent PLA agents? I don’t think they vote in the US. Or at all.
Do you have, you know, any numbers showing that third parties spoiled it for democrats?
Yeah fair point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_and_independent_candidates_for_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election?wprov=sfla1
Jill stein, for example, got 0.56% of votes. The dems would've had a better chance at winning if people hadn't voted for a party that doesn't stand a chance.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voter-turnout-2020-2024/
It would also be great if the dems weren't so shit. That would incentivize people to actually vote for them instead of not voting.
Bruh I can quote one on this very comm less than ten minutes before this was posted
This is way more convincing than electoral data.
You literally asked if they were in the room with us right now.
Like, I don't know how much more 'in the room with us' you want.
But I would say non-voters who deliberately made a choice not to vote based on supposed left-leanings on prominent issues were more important, and, in fact, threw the election to Trump, and I can back that with electoral data if you like.
Is this your first day on the internet? You don’t understand metaphor?
"Are the X in the room with us right now" is a sarcastic idiom implying that whatever is being talked about isn't real within the context of what is being responded to. 'Metaphor' doesn't mean "My words mean nothing", it means "My words have a meaning that is not directly literal".
Yes, so where are the numbers showing third party voters spoiled Harris’ victory?
Then explain WHY anyone owes democrats their vote after decades of sabotaging the working class.
And I won’t accept “b-b-but they’re the lesser of two evils” or “primaries are the time to disagree.”
See the establishment reaction to Mamdani for why that’s absolute BS.
Establishment democrats aren’t progressive but demand our votes as if they were.
I'm sorry that you're yet another privileged leftist who thinks that marginalized groups have to earn our right to live by [checks notes] making sure Blue Circus is entertaining enough for you.
Truly, thank you for supporting our genocide.
Go to a protest, go door to door, try calling people. Or try to figure out how to escape before the genocide. You're not doing anything useful here.
I already attend local protests; I have no real options for escaping before the genocide. I'm resigned to dying here, if that's what it comes to. Asspatting leftists for sentencing me to death is not only not useful from your end, but actively counterproductive - but I understand that the lives of the marginalized are less important than being buddy-buddy with your favorite self-righteous pro-genocide commenters.
You don't know anything about me or my policies and opinions. I can't stop you from vilifying me but speaking frankly, I expect to die in the camps right next to you. Either way. I wish you more to your day than bitterness.
I'm 'villifying' you for the positions you've taken here in defense of allowing Nazis, ffs.
God forbid the “progressive” party have progressive policies or do anything progressive.
Thanks for giving us republicans and diet republicans.
This fiasco is on YOU.
God forbid progressives actually show up to the primaries. Sorry for voting for Bernie in 2016 and 2020; it seems I was the only fucking one.
lmao
Anything to avoid the fact that you supported the literal Nazis. I guess virtue signaling about how pure your soul is doesn't feel as good knowing that you're helping murder marginalized groups.
Enjoy the blood on your hands.
Look anywhere in this thread
The one guy who says he voted third party spoiled Harris’ victory?
Show me the numbers.
I voted 3rd party. If only I had voted 1.6 million more times for KH, I could have changed the outcome of the election!
Unfortunately yeah. In fact 3 of the largest Lemmy instances are populated by almost entirely by these third party voters. Even this thread seems to be packed with third party voters trying to defend their support for fascism with the excuse "It's not my fault I voted third party, I don't understand American politics"
Could you link them? Because I only see one person even saying they didn’t vote Democrat.