I’m not convinced that interstate compact will work. it would be hugely controversial, and with the way the SCOTUS is stacked for the foreseeable future it would probably be deemed unconstitutional.

lol yeah he realized he inadvertently called himself fat and then said “No, you lose weight.”

wait, what in the ever living fuck?

the inherent problem is you’d need some of the less populous states to voluntarily give their disproportionate power away. Even if they agree at the time that a popular vote is in their favor, that doesn’t mean it will be forever. It’s in their best interest to never give that power up.

It’s all virtue signaling to disguise being vile snakes out to enrich themselves and their families, while actively fucking over the rest of the country/world to get there.

Those republicans use identity politics and religion to control the votes of evangelical/fundamentalist christians.

there is that, but I think also many republicans have a weird cognitive dissonance where they’re antisemitic in general, but still very pro-israel/zionist because of fundamental christianity, and/or they are even more islamaphobic than antisemitic.

you are everything that’s wrong with the internet.

sports news, get off your high horse.

i have a mastodon account but it’s completely useless for me.

the only thing i use twitter for is to follow updates and news from professional journalists and artists who are not on mastodon and likely will never be. if your job depends on twitter, switching to mastodon is not going to happen.

if i want to engage with random average people, i come here to lemmy.

you’re voting for nothing friend.

The things you mention are bad, yes, but they are also no different than the alarmist rallying cries that have been used every 4 years for the last… forever.

alarmist? Look at the state of the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v Wade. Look at the state of the climate that’s wrecking us with heat, massive fires, and hurricanes every single year now. These are real, material issues that we’ve been needing to address for decades, and we’re paying the price for failing to do so.

All of this vastly outweighs any nebulous benefit you think will come of voting for a 3rd party, whatever you want to call it.

I’m not talking about republican-leaning citizens, I’m talking about the literal Republican Party funding Stein. Trump’s personal attorney Jay Sekulow has represented Stein in various court cases around this election.

So this whole, she isn’t the “establishment” thing

nice straw man.

Are you saying she doesn’t have experience on being a corporate puppet like establishment politicians do? And that is a bad thing why?

I’m saying she literally has no experience with how government works, in any aspect. She’s a physician. She has no law degree, no experience in legislation at any level, no experience in administration at any level. No foreign policy experience at all (except dining with Putin). I’d sooner vote for AOC to be president than Jill Stein.

She is funded by republicans and has no experience in government whatsoever. She is utterly unqualified for running the most powerful country on earth. She literally only exists to take votes from democrats.

no, because stein is a stooge and has no chance at all of winning anyway. that’s the entire point of the article.

That will be the least of our problems if you let trump win for the sake of protest votes. A generation from now we will be completely fucked with even more stacked federal courts, even worse climate change, continued dismantling of healthcare, a decimated government from project 2025, etc, etc.

we can handle them just fine because the fact of the matter is trump would be way worse for Palestine. There’s a reason Netanyahu prefers Trump.

Obviously it’s insane for Bibi to want trump while starting wars/invasions against Russia’s allies and being wholly reliant on American aid…

he’s probably only starting these wars because it’s hurting Harris. Watch him knock it off after the election.

that’s what he would say /s

So making the “good” restaurants food shitty only hurts their business

not if the customers they’re losing don’t care about food. I think we’re gonna have to agree to disagree here.

I agree it absolutely hurts the left and helps the right, but we disagree on the cause. Remember in your analogy the food quality is not the only thing that diners care about. They are being lured to the shitty restaurant by stuff that has nothing to do with food at all.