The Romans would like a word.

Voting third party without some form of Rank Choice is literally pointless. This is basic game theory stuff. It’s why the establishment on both sides are against Rank Choice.

Nothing will change without Rank Choice voting. Even if you succeed in displacing one of the two parties with a third, that third party just becomes one of the two parties and nothing changes.

I’m not saying to not vote third party. I’m saying get your local election to switch to Rank Choice and THEN vote third party.

This is essentially the profile of the group who were going to attack the UFC event at the White House. They realized that they’d been duped, and decided to take things into their own hands.

And when the critical factor for being able to choose immigration over death/incarceration is money… Well, a lot of us simply don’t get a choice.

My engineer friend is halfway through the immigration process. Me? I have a solid 9 to 5 that I bust my ass at every day but I don’t have enough money for gas to get to the border, much less to immigrate.

I’ll never be an immigrant, and not by choice.

When the time comes, if I’m very VERY lucky, I might live long enough to become a refugee. That’s my only alternative to your alternative.

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.” - Marcus Aurelius (misattributed)

A good person would reward good people for being good. If Jesus won’t reward a good person for being good just because they haven’t “accepted him into their heart” well… I said what I said.

Just another “Conservatives FAFO”

You don’t get to support marginalizing other groups in other states and then complain when your group gets marginalized in your state. They opened this particular Pandora’s box and it’s too late to close it.

The acronym was never about sexuality, it was about gender non-conformity. By the same notion, that’s what people’s attitudes are being measured about: specific forms and sub-groups of gender non-conformity.

Can’t lose something you never had.

These people were always fascists, they just didn’t know it or knew to hide it.

It’s worth noting that “blue no matter who” is just a bandaid, just a drive to get fascists out of power long enough to enact voting reform. The two party system is an organic result of First Past The Post voting; we have to move to some form of Rank Choice if we’re ever to see any progress. Thankfully voting regulations are on the local level, where change is still possible. This is one of the many reasons Trump is trying to federalize elections.

Until we get voting reform, there will only be Two Parties, and they will always drift to the right.

And, to be clear, we achieve that by changing local election laws to use some form of Rank Choice instead of First Past The Post.

The two party system is an organic result of FPTP voting. If we change to Rank Choice, the two party system will crumble.

“What? Really?? With Netflix and Amazon pulling shows left and right???”

Global maritime piracy

Ohhhhh, that’s … Uh, hm. Somehow less interesting and more interesting at the same time.

Yeah well, it’s not their job to keep fascists out if power. It’s OUR job. Us, the voters.

Voting works. If it didn’t, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop us from doing it. And once we have Rank Choice we’ll be able to move beyond the “an actual fascist/not an actual fascist” dichotomy. But until then, for fucks sake, vote “not an actual fascist” even if you don’t like the person you’re voting for. I don’t care how terrible they are, if they’re not an actual fascist then you vote for them. THAT’S how you keep fascists out of power.

This is why I’m giving up on changing the DNC and refocusing my efforts on changing the voting system from First Past The Post to Rank Choice.

But we also need the fascists out of power, and kept out of power.

These two things have to be achieved in parallel. That’s why I vote Democrat, but only until I have Rank Choice at which point the Democrats will become my second pick (and then eventually third pick, and hopefully someday not one of my picks at all)

It doesn’t matter if it’s a blue or a red state if there aren’t any more elections because they’ve been suspended because of war with, say, NATO.

The absolute least we can do is force them to jump through the hoops. Like, I get that it feels pointless but it’s better than just giving up and letting them do whatever they want.

They WANT you to feel like there’s no point so that you’ll give up. They want you to give up because that’s the easiest way for them to win. Why give them the satisfaction? They haven’t actually won yet, but even if I can never win I’ll won’t give up no matter how impossible the victory, and neither should you.

Fascists weaponize hypocrisy to get what they want: power. Is anyone surprised anymore?

No court in the country would uphold Stand Your Ground used against a law enforcement officer of any kind, no matter what.

“Yeah but what if–”

“Except ICE doesn’t–”

“The person in the house doesn’t know–”

No Matter What

It was 14 sheckles, but they had to divide them between the eight of them.

You’ve successfully and correctly identified the problem with using the “left-right sliding scale” to describe America as being that there is no left.

You don’t even understand enough to get why the comparison is relevant.