• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    and who i am actually voting for. tell me, when i voted for howie hawkins, was i really voting for biden?

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      11 months ago

      Whoever the 3rd party was ideologically closest to, you were voting for the OTHER frontrunner.

      As the green party is CLOSEST to the Democratic party, you effectively voted Republican by taking a left leaning vote off the table.

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        11 months ago

        As the green party is CLOSEST to the Democratic party, you effectively voted Republican by taking a left leaning vote off the table.

        joe biden doesn’t lean left, and neither does his super-cop vp.

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            11 months ago

            they are implying that people who lean left would vote for Biden/harris but that’s not true. only right wingers want cops and slavestate presidents

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            11 months ago

            Obviously compared to trump he is further left

            are you sure? biden wrote the crime bill and the patriot act and voted to fund every war he could. trump signed the first step act and didn’t start any new wars and he even doubled my unemployment payments. joe promised me 2k and gave me 1200.

            and to think that either of them are even trying to be leftist is laughable.

            neither is anywhere near good enough to vote for.

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              11 months ago

              But you are gonna get one. No choice. Time to pick which you prefer.

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                11 months ago

                i’m probably gonna vote for jill stein or cornel west. i guess it depends on whether west gets ballot access but there is some possibility jill can just win me over.

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        11 months ago

        Whoever the 3rd party was ideologically closest to, you were voting for the OTHER frontrunner.

        no, i was voting for howie.

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                  11 months ago

                  Basic understanding of game theory is not rhetoric.

                  Political opinion follows game theory. Not the other way around

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                    11 months ago

                    Basic understanding of game theory is not rhetoric.

                    a basic understanding of it would tell you it doesn’t dictate human actions, and people frequently make decisions that do not seem to be in their “rational self interest”

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                    11 months ago

                    Political opinion follows game theory. Not the other way around

                    i guess no one had a political opinion before 1950