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is it ridiculous as thinking if I eat enough shit the next plate will have pie?

No, it won’t be magical. It’s not a toggle switch. It will take years of effort to get there and it will never happen by accepting the status quo. I bought the rhetoric on W. Most important election of my lifetime they said. But than it’s been the same way every election cycle.

I’ll lose a battle to win a war. It’s better than just accepting the war is lost and never winning.

Oh, only years? For how long have you been able to vote for a third party in the US? And when is the last time a party other than the republicans or democrats were in power? What were they like?

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Yeah, that’s playing into racists stereotypes to give the far right more power. And they aren’t Chinese anymore. The group was banned from China. They are formerly Chinese but are now an international religious organization.

Would you like it if the KKK ran articles and people referred to it as a US backed publication?

No but the kkk is from the US. Like if the kkk was all like “you know hoowhat, the Americans are the problem!” Then pointing out the kkk is American too isnt wrong. It’s factually correct. It’s more American bullshit.

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This is a serious issue indeed. Say there's a 3rd-party candidate who's able to win the election. Chances are they will not get anything done, because both Democrats and Republicans will not be very eager to support them.
Besides, it may also prove difficult to find the right folks to form a cabinet, or whatever it's called in the US, when there's not a somewhat established platform to pick candidates from.

Here in the Netherlands we've seen many new parties in each general election this century. Some even became one of the bigger parties right away. In those cases this always causes many issues because they haven't been able to vet their candidates properly, and so there's always a lot of scandals with these new big parties.

I think the US desperately needs more big parties. But for that to work in the long term, those parties would ideally be built bottom up, from local to state to national, instead of top down.

Btw, and it's not just the Electoral College that's fucked up about the US election system. The fact that the president, a single position with all the power that comes with it, is elected directly and in a single round, creates a strong incentive for strategic voting. A much better system is where there's (at least) a second round, unless one of the candidates gets an absolute majority of the votes in the first round, between the top 2 candidates from that first round. That way the incentive to vote strategically is gone, unless there's a chance one of the candidates might reach the absolute majority in the first round.
But for such a system to work as intended, you'll need more than two parties to begin with of course.

The US is a two party system. Both very similar unfortunately, but one of them tends to fuck us over more than the other. It sucks but that's just reality.

It's like sitting there thinking that the Netherlands will magically turn into a 2 party country... Rowan and Sprite are sitting there thinking that if they just throw away their vote the US will magically turn into a 3 party country... they think this while a man that wants to be a dictator is running.

It's ridiculous.

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If he does maybe the Democrats might consider a populous candidate instead of playing shitty games trying to hold the American people hostage.

An election against Trump is an election that the Democrats can only lose. And currently they are choosing to do so.

Frankly I’ll gladly take another 4 years of Trump if it teaches the Democrats to stop gatekeeping out progressivism. It didn’t work the first or second time though, and I really have no interest in supporting a party who would rather hand the country over to Trump than to give the people what they want.

And if extremist right wing candidates were a danger why do Democrat sponsored Super Pacs pump millions of dollars into supporting them in primary seasons? They are more interested in keeping Democracy hostage than working for the people.

Play stupid games, get stupid prizes.

Sorry, but this is quite stupid.

Going to stop gatekeeping progressiveness by electing the far right. Shit maybe even a supreme court justice or two might die if we are lucky. That will really advance progressiveness in the future. Maybe they can come up with something cool again like when they decided corporations are people. Then progressives will really be due for a major comeback haha

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Dr Cornel West.

Do you think he'll be able to get a big enough percentage for Trump to win?

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Saying they are affiliated with China is a half truth. It's a Chinese religious movement, Falun Gong. They are an anti-Communist party that hopes to unseat the governmental power and employ an alt-right Russian style religious rule over the country. Quote from Wiki...

"Falun Gong is entirely based around the teachings of its autocratic founder and leader: China-born Li Hongzhi.Wul6cnYTea9WnE6X According to NBC News, to his followers, Li is "a God-like figure who can levitate, walk through walls and see into the future. His ultra-conservative and controversial teachings include a rejection of modern science, art and medicine, and a denunciation of homosexuality, feminism and general worldliness."[16] Hongzhi instructs his followers to downplay his controversial teachings when speaking to outsiders."

So really it's an anti-Chinese source that is closely affiliated with hard right movements over the world.

So they aren't Chinese?

Plus you're talking about distinctions and they just state "Hollywood is run by China". lol

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In my recent primary the Democrats poured money into the Republican candidate! Only the top two primary candidates are on the ballot and they didn’t want a progressive democrat against the established democrat in the general election, so half of the one candidates budget went to election ads for the Republican.

By the way, are you employed by the Democrats because it seems like it?

Yes.

So which third party candidate are you voting for again?

1. The Epoch Times is literally a Chinese paper pretending to be American conservative news.

2. Kevin Sorbo

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There. Fixed that for you.

It’s so terrifying that republican money pours into third party candidates.

You’re an idiot.

Conservative's new boycott is Tyson for hiring illegal immigrants.

Wait until they hear about restaurants, hotels, agriculture, meat industry, cleaning services... or just business in America that directly or indirectly rely on immigrants.

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C) ... shit.

lol

Guy on left was endorsed by Trump.

Guy on left is now wanted for murder.

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I don’t think the Trump 2028 ticket is very likely. He will be 82, he’s already obese as hell and won’t follow the instructions of his doctors. The chances of him being physically able to run ain’t great.

Might be a Trump Jr. run though. The Trumps are quickly becoming the Kennedies of the Republicans. American royalty.

Who will you be voting for?

A) Democrats

B) Republicans

C) A third party protest vote that is designed to help Republicans

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Hey, what party held both sides of congress and presidency when women lost their national abortion access again?

The opposition to Trump has been infinitely more productive than the acceptance of Biden.

He is old, he does keep making dumb gaffes. But that’s like 50 items down on the list as to why he’s a terrible president.

And congrats to the Democrats for ushering in the second Trump presidency. It couldn’t have happened without them.

Ah yes, it was the democrats who ushered in the anti abortion legislation. You're a real genius.

You are like the republicans who run cover for corporations by endlessly crying inflation and how it's the democrats fault.

So stupid..

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LOL, I'd say she's just scratching her nose, but it's still a funny pic.

She’s scratching the inside, knuckle deep, noll. In no way is this a picture of an unfortunate angle.

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https://www.270towin.com/2024-presidential-election-polls/

So according to polls it’s neck and neck with the edge going to Trump for the next election.

Don’t know why you don’t think that comment holds water. I stand by it completely.

The people criticizing Biden over and over because he’s old or whatever are morons. Congrats, Trump may win. No more bag of bones Biden, or reproductive rights or voting possibly.

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I wish you loved yourself more.

You gobble down that Wendy’s chili, stop fuckin bullshitting

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Nah.

Found the wendy's chili eater.

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There are so many fast food urban legends like that. My cousins in Louisiana have told me that some of the Taco Bell chains down there use nutria (giant invasive rodents that look like smaller capybara and love ditches and canals) in the taco meat.

It's not an urban legend though, they really do that with the chili meat.

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I ate at a Wendy's in Colorado Springs in...the mid 1970s, out of necessity. Less than 2 hours later, I was vomiting chunks (through my nostrils) of whatever crap it was I ingested earlier (and I was literally starving at that time) - my father was driving, he and I and my two brothers were launching our 1st annual (and only time) Rocky Mountain vacation, in the 1975 Cordoba (with Corinthian leather) while pulling a pop-up PUMA tent camper up to 9500 ft above sea level. Mom had the good sense to stay home, alone (maybe) for the next two weeks.

I've never stopped at or ordered Wendy's slop again. Some places, people just shouldn't eat at. Wendy's is one of those dumps.

I had an ex who worked at wendy's when she was a teenager and she told me that the meat in the chili is all the chunks n shit that gets stuck on the grill throughout the day... they collect it all at some point and dump it in the chili.

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LOL, I was. Funny to see you all butt hurt over 'football' though.

futbol*

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Similar expressions are used here in the Netherlands, only here football refers to actual football, the game where the ball is an actual ball and is played with one's foot.

You were probably a shit football player, I just know it.

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We all came from a Uterus...

Therefore we all have a voice, because God himself gave it to us all.

And the fetus deserves a voice as well.

God created everything right?

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Sex is global.

Pregnancy is global.

Thus, life is global.

And I view life outside of the boxes that many people like to keep their lives in.

Perhaps your box, is holding you back some?

Alabama isn't global though..