Perfide

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[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What big money? Over 94% of these donations were less than $200. There's just a lot of them.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

If the internet is down permanently, we're talking societal collapse. Nobody is delivering pizzas.

If it's just a temporary outage, google maps has offline mode.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is your point? Trump is even more gung-ho about supporting Israel than Biden was, and whoever replaces Biden will certainly take his stance on the issue. There is no pro-palestine candidate even in the conversation.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

If that's what you call a "plan", never manage anything, ever.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

Seconding this, experiencing the same thing.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 7 points 1 month ago

Explain how they didn't, then.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It is precise. The censoring over the address is very poorly done, I was able to find it in less than a minute on google maps.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

Yep. A third party candidate hasn't gotten a single electoral college vote since George Wallace, and the only time a third party has done better than either a Democrat or a Republican was with Theodore Roosevelt and his Bull Moose party, which crushed Taft but got absolutely obliterated in turn by Wilson due to the spoiler effect.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup. Even if you ignore the theory that Earths surface is the post-apocalyptic "stone-age" setting of The Flintstones, it's still reasonable to conclude that the people in The Jetsons live in the sky because they trashed the planet.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So you admit you did no actual research and just grabbed the first thing you found, and expect us to applaud you for it? GTFO

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The voting system in the US is broken and people need to start voting correctly

You're missing the point. As long as the electoral college and first past the post remain, third party candidates will never win. Never. It has nothing at all to do with people being "too afraid".

The last time a 3rd-party candidate got ANY electoral votes(despite what the other person said, it has happened) was in 1968, and that was literally only because it was during the tail end of the civil rights movement and Nixon wasn't quite racist enough for the south compared to the full blown white supremacist George Wallace.

The ONLY time a 3rd-party candidate has done better than one of the two major parties was over 100 years ago in 1912. The only reason for that is because the candidate in question was 2x former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, running as a 3rd-party specifically to oppose his handpicked successor turned rival Taft, who had become immensely unpopular with Rooseveltian Republicans. Well, two reasons: surviving an assassination attempt & giving a speech leaking blood with the bullet still in him like a total badass, just weeks before the election, probably helped too. Guess what though, it caused a huge spoiler effect that gave Woodrow Wilson a landslide 81.9% of the electoral vote despite only getting 41.8% of the popular vote.

Third parties are just inherently incompatible with our current election system. We need to adopt ranked choice voting and ditch the electoral college first.

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