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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 38 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Split the Republican party bro. That'll really own the libs.

Bro as a lefty I’m so scared of this America Party bro. Like we really won’t be able to beat them frfr. If republicans have the Trump Party and the America Party it’ll be like they’re twice as strong. They definitely won’t just start taking sides and splitting the vote so that their already fake “majority” completely falls apart. And the muskrat definitely wouldn’t be dumb enough to try to rig an election so his puppet candidate beats a Trump Party candidate prompting Dump or SCOTUS to crack down on election rigging. That would never in a million years happen bc the America Party is gonna totally be the people’s party bro

/s just in case

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm just shocked it's not the X Party.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

I was rooting for Lemon Party.

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Now do another 10 or 20 parties more and maybe america could finally become a democratic country.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Need a weaker executive branch too

What could go wrong?

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is that why he's suddenly criticizing Trump? He thinks he can split the Democratic vote?

I don't think he's THAT delusional. But he might be targeting the libertarian crypto fiends and techno-fascists that have gathered around the MAGA platform during the last election.

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How? I thought a prereq was to do a certain amount of philanthropy or action at the local level first.

[–] TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Saying the quiet part out loud 😅

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 180 points 1 week ago (7 children)

"America Party"

Americans really are the ultimate parody of themselves. Have fun with your civil war.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 112 points 1 week ago

The "America Party", started by a Nazi African. What a wild thing.

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[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 110 points 1 week ago (21 children)

I’m not sure if I want this to fail or succeed.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 147 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Hopefully it has success at breaking us from our failed two party system, while at the same time the party itself fails (and costs him lot of money in the process).

[–] ExFed@programming.dev 78 points 1 week ago (9 children)

We'll need ranked choice (or some other voting scheme other than First Past The Post). Otherwise it'll just end up the same as it always has.

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[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 58 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Best case scenario is it will split the right wing vote. In Canada, we're used to it going the other way with conservatives taking advantage of a split left.

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[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The America Party run by a South African.

Popcorn is not enough for this country.

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[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll just point out the risk of what I'll call "Joe Roganing" here. Elon pretends he hates both parties while there's no election coming up. Then when the election arrives he "makes up his mind" and endorses Republicans. This allows him to 1) attract people fed up with both parties just to hand them to Republicans, and 2) have a credible that that forces Republicans to do his bidding.

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