Locally, I have no problem supporting a 3rd party… though they still haven’t been able to win so much as a school board seat:
The problem here though is that we have a closed primary system with Democratic super majority. So if you want to have any say in an election, you have to register as a Democrat.
Primary - Choose the best Democratic candidate.
General - Watch the Republican get crushed.
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“What’s better? Word or Windows?”
(Actual question I was asked)
The real reason:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/17/pro-israel-money-progressives-congress-challenges
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/aipac-israel-spending-democratic-primaries-00144552
https://www.commondreams.org/news/aipac-100-million
https://abcnews.go.com/538/pro-israel-groups-spent-big-oust-squad-members/story?id=113675889
Now do the math showing how a 3rd party can win in the US. :)
1968 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_United_States_presidential_election
Electoral College:
Republican - 301, Democratic - 191, American Independent - 46.
1980 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election
Republican - 489, Democratic - 49, Independent - 0
1992 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_United_States_presidential_election
Democratic - 370, Republican - 168, Independent - 0
1996 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_presidential_election
Democratic - 379, Republican - 159, Independent - 0
Those are the four closest.
Only one party can beat the Republicans, it’s the Democrats.
Similarily, only one party can beat the Democrats, also the Democrats. :)
Nope, keep reading. :)
You have it backwards. The morons voted 3rd party.
Trump - 77,302,580 - 49.8%
Harris - 75,017,613 - 48.3%
Fun with math:
49.8 + 48.3 = 98.1.
77,302,580 + 75,017,613 = 152,320,193
152,320,193 = 98.1% of the vote.
x = 100%, solve for X.
152,320,193 * 100 / 98.1 = 155,270,329 total votes (approximately).
155,270,329 - 152,320,193 = 2,950,136 voters who failed to vote for Trump or Harris.
Flipping the popular vote would have required 2,284,968 of them to vote for Harris. 77.45%.
Even then, that’s not a guarantee thanks to the Electoral College:
Trump won Pennsylvania at 50.37%. Getting all the non-Trump votes behind any single candidate would have still lost. Harris or otherwise.
Arizona? 52.22%
Nevada? 50.59%
Georgia? 50.73%
South Carolina? 58.23%
Only 2 atates could have seen a non-Trump vote flip the election to Harris:
Wisconsin - 49.60%
Michigan - 49.73%
But even if Harris won those 2, it wouldn’t have been enough to flip the election.
Electoral vote:
287 (270 to win) - 251
If a 3rd party won those two, which would have been the first time a third party won ANY state since 1968, it wouldn’t have been enough to flip the election.
287 - 226 - 25
Pretty much what I said. :)
It’s complicated.
As someone who got to see this from the inside:
Surprisingly most wiring harnesses used to come from Ukraine of all places. So when Russia invaded Ukraine, that completely disrupted the wiring harness supply.
To work around that, manufacturers had to come up with either new, stable suppliers or invest in their own production lines.
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This isn’t a news article. It’s a public press release on the page of an elected congresswoman.
Cows in India aren’t quite the same deal as simple vegetarianism is in the West. They are treated with a level of religious reverence.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/sanctity-of-the-cow
Imagine there was a group of Americans going around cutting down crosses and crucifixes, they’d be met with a similar level of violence.
Or folks in a Muslim country burning Qurans. You aren’t going to get far doing that.
Mistreating cattle in India is the same sort of deal.
Now you can argue religion is the insanity, which is a whole OTHER deal.
Image posts are not allowed. Articles only.
There are more, I just try to be more public facing.
Yeah, I was offline doing “husband work” the last couple of days. I’m catching up now!
27 unresolved reports in World… whee!
lemmy.world DOES have a bot that notifies all mods when they start stacking up. I’ll see what’s up!
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Only 1 in 6?