• jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    18 days ago

    There are only two choices WHO CAN WIN.

    Stein can’t win, the Greens don’t have the power and have NEVER had the power. Their best shot was Nader with name recognition and he couldn’t crack 3%.

    Without Nader the very best they have done was 1.07% in 2016. Other than that? Sub 1% over, and over.

    The Libertarian candidate could have pulled it out if disaffected Republicans had become Libertarians instead of Independents. Pro-Tip - they have not.

    Kennedy’s out.

    The idiot socialist isn’t even on the ballot in enough states to win.

    West is on the ballot in fewer states than that.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballot_access_in_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election

    I agree, I’d love for our system to have multiple VIABLE parties, but we don’t. Your choice is the Democratic or Republican candidate, full stop.

    If you want to change that, you aren’t going to do it by voting for fringe candidates who will get 1% of the vote or less.

    The correct way to change it is to pass ranked choice balloting. If you have a chance to support that (we did, on our ballot!) then go for it!

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          18 days ago

          I haven’t voted on 118 yet. It’s the only bit unfilled. Not sure which way I’ll go. Probably no, and then walk the ballot to a Dropbox in my neighborhoods library.

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            18 days ago

            My beef with it is that it’s just a Robin Hood law. They want to replicate Alaska’s oil dividend, but we don’t have a natural resource like that so the plan is to just soak the largest companies in the state instead.

            I’m all for fairly taxing the wealthiest companies, but the money should be used to reduce our tax burden, not just kick it back to everyone else. Phil Knight doesn’t need $1,600 back.