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Yes I am. Even if you are bullying and making fun of me. I'm proudly voting Green. And I even started the Green Party community here on Lemmy.
That's very edgy of you! I mean, now I will totally change my mind, because you tried to make a meme! Perfect plan! Good job! So who should I vote for? I mean, that's what you want, right? You want to bully people into voting for your candidate.
And since BOTH parties do that, I'm unsure which party you're with.
And yeah, I'm happy I started a Green Party community. At least I'm being the change i wanna see. I'm contributing. You...well you're trying to be a bully.
Keep bullying. And I'll keep voting for who I want to vote for.
You have to play to the rules as they are written, not as you want them to be.
Any vote for a third party in a US presidential election is a vote against your preferred major candidate . It's really really simple.
It's a very sad indictment of how broken their electoral system is but reality is what it is.
Yikes to all. You're voting for trump with extra steps
Nope. If I wanted to vote for Trump, I'd vote for Trump. No extra steps needed.
I'm voting for the party I believe in. And it's the Green Party.
If your party is so afraid of losing, just because there are third parties, then they should get stronger candidates. Welcome to democracy. I get to vote for who I want. As is my right.
I feel sorry that a vote for a 3rd party (in the US) may lead to the opposition winning and people that vote that way are derided.
We have Mixed Member Proportional here in NZ and it may not be the best voting system but I think it beats First Past the Post. I also feel the voting for a president / legistave is a bit broken.
You don't have to feel sorry for that particular person, it's likely they aren't even able to vote. They are a forum slider here to shift attention away from our only chance to escape fascism.
Are you really trying to tell Lemmy that you are so delusional that you think there's even the tiniest of a shred of a chance of a third party victory? If your candidate got 5% of the vote it would be shocking and you know it.
Third parties are an absolute joke in the US in every case in recent US history. And that is because no serious individual would ever run for president in a scenario where they know without doubt that it's impossible for them to win. They may all only exist at this point to divert votes away from whomever they hate most.
Yeah, it's my "right" to watch a person die of heart attack and not dial 911 also, but I'm not a huge asshole so I won't be needing that "right"
You signed up three days ago. The community isn't one until it's active. But hey, keep up the good work, "woke-free" champion.
Yes, I did. Is there supposed to be a waiting period before we can start posting and creating communities? How long did YOU wait after you signed up, before you started posting?
Because I started posting right when I signed up. And I created communities I was interested in. Also, I only created the Green Party because so many Lemmy's yelled at me, and stated incorrect information because I posted a Green Party article to this sub.
So actually you all inspired it! isn't that awesome!
Not true. They are called "community" in Lemmy speak. Just like creating a subreddit in Reddit. They are created when...you create one. And I sure am getting plenty of downvotes in the communities, for them not being "active." Hmmm....
And if you don't think my communities count because they haven't reached whatever number you think is appropriate, then you have nothing to be worried about. Right?
I mean, after all, I am just a guy, posting to my inactive communities. So seems like I should be of least concern to you. Right?
Thank you! I will. Because I refuse to let people bully me just because I have different views than they do. So I plan to continue posting.
And I'm still voting for 3rd party. And because of all the moaning and stalker messages I have been getting from you guys, I decided to really up my local volunteer efforts for the party, donated to both Stein's campaign and the Green Party general fund and bought a shirt. So thank you, again! :)
Your party is a Russian op to siphon votes from Democrats.
Jill Stein is a Putin lackey (not to mention a fucking idiot).
What’s the community name?
Green Party. You can see it my profile.
I'm not sure if we are allowed to link to other communities here, but since you asked: https://lemmy.world/c/GreenParty
Thanks.
Looks like the sub is being heavily brigaded by the major parties, but that’s okay. Let them cope with how miserable their parties are.
Let yourself be happy supporting a party you can actually feel good about.
Be on the right side of history.
Brigaded from... Where? Because people don't agree with you? Stein is why we got Trump in the first place.
The sub is for people who support the Green Party. But people who do not support the Green Party are showing up and downvoting everything positive (and upvoting everything negative). That’s what I mean by a brigade.
Well then maybe the Democrats should try being less crap.
Stop bullying me
That's called participation. If you post rubbish, people will vote accordingly as you can see in this thread. If you only want people who agree with you then by all means, keep moaning and deleting posts in your sub.
"The Green Party", except you have put stuff from the unrelated England and Wales Green Party (which I support from time to time).
Firstly, I haven’t put anything there, because I just learnt about the sub now. Secondly, the side bar says it’s for green parties around the world (but primarily focused on the Green Party USA).
Apologies, I was responding to the other person and didn't see your username.
Oh it is. And my dm's are crazy and scary too. lol
The other day I posted a news article about the Green Party, and holy crap! That shit storm was crazy. People are NOT happy that there are even other options out there.
If there's at least one thing the two major parties agree on, is that they don't wanna take a chance and losing their strangle hold on American politics by giving any 3rd party a chance. lol
But thank you for your support and saying that. I'm not going anywhere. Even if the Dems and Repubs are really really mad about it. :)