g_g [she/her, comrade/them]

it looks so cute tho

have at it. i refuse to dignify the actions of any genocidal maniac with an endorsement in the form of my vote. simple as.

okay so I read the whole thing. it describes a really shitty, extant system. it defines the spoiler effect. it shows how the spoiler effect makes the already shitty system even more shitty. all that’s fine and well. never once does it say that voting for minor party candidates is literally a vote for republicans, which was the actual statement that I took issue with.

you’re welcome to make the argument that the result is the same and that’s why you specifically will only vote strategically. that’s fine. it does absolutely nothing to compel me to vote for either democrats or for republicans. or even to vote at all for that matter. why participate in such a fundamentally broken system at all then? just to give one more point to 99% hitler? no thank you.

abstention is, quite literally, not a vote for the person you like less.

voting for a minor party candidate is, quite literally, not a vote for republicans.

i love pinball and I’ve found that every single person I’ve introduced it to ended up finding it very cool. most people, like myself before I got into it a few years ago, don’t even know that there are really objectives and ways to advance the game on most tables, so once you start talking about specific shots and what to do people tend to get really excited about it - especially if you act encouraging and excited when your opponents in a hotseat game are doing well.

the tricky part is getting someone to a table to play 😅

you dropped this, king:

are the pro-Trump leftists in the room with us right now?