• Headofthebored @lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Say you have a total of 10 voters. If two anti-fascist parties are split with 3 voters going to one party and 3 voters going with the other, but the fascists are more unified and get 4 voters, neither antifascist party has enough votes despite having a total of more voters, so the fascist party wins. Notice how both Anti-fascist parties sabotaged themselves by not being unified. It may be news to you but that is how First Past the Post voting works, and it is unfortunately the shitty system the US uses. The election happens whether you like it or not, and it is in your best interest to not end up being ruled by nazis. Perhaps a bit late for that though. Until that system is replaced along with that electoral college bullshit, the 2 senators per state regardless of population, and the cap on house reps, that’s the game.

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      7 hours ago

      Quit with these nonsense fever dreams. Nothing of what you described is remotely relevant to the discussion.

      The party to blame for the failure of 2016 and 2024 WA the Democratic party. Trump was and is one of the least popular candidates of all time. Democrats litterally needed to make some of the worst strategic choices available to them to lose to him, and they did.

      It’s the Democrats fault they lost both those elections. The lost those elections by blaming voters in advance while they courted a non existent center.

    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 hours ago

      that’s not what happened though. there were (at least) 2 fascists parties, and they’ve won every election since the 1860s.

    • alekwithak@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Unfortunately you can’t reason people out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.

    • hatorade@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      If you have to make a hypothetical to have an argument sound realistic, you lose.