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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If those "green voters" actually gave a shit about getting their candidate elected, you'd hear from them for more than 2 months every 4 years.

But no, that was never the goal. Their goal was for Trump to win

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And do what, canvas when there's no election and get even more doors slammed in your face.

Yeah the green party isn't campaigning in the off season, but neither are Republicans or democrats because nobody cares. Half the people only pay attention to politics the week before the election.

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You know there's more than just the presidency... Right? Right? Building locally gcssroots doesn't mean showing up for the presidential cycle every four years. You understand this, right?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

IMHO the local communities on Lemmy are still way too small. So you're mostly going to see discussion of national or global politics here.

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No. We can go look up right now haw many state and federal positions are held by green parties

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

I'm not disputing that it's few. I'm pointing out that this activity would be practically invisible to us.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Then a 3rd party will never be viable.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah man, like 3 people on lemmy are the ones who TURN THE TIDES on elections

My god, the insanity is real.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How about Jill Stein herself who shows up on the same timeline?

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah her 30k voters turned the tides of the election lolz 😂

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

She got 782,528 votes or about 0.5% of the popular vote.

You’re misrepresenting her votes by about 26 times less.

Why is that?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wow, it's almost like the goal wasn't to get her elected, it was to make sure Harris didn't get elected.

Lolz!

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Man I want to know what you are on, to be so deluded into thinking that 30k people can literally swing an election lmao 🤣

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

You realize elections have come down to a relatively small number of votes, correct? Especially if those votes are in the right locations.

https://www.britannica.com/list/5-remarkably-close-us-presidential-elections

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Still on the 30k votes again huh? No mention of the low turnout for Democrat voters? Or the crowd pushing for people not to vote?

[–] dx1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Green/PSL voters are literally posting in this thread. Maybe you have confirmation bias.