We rightfully don’t accept casual consumption of cocaine or heroin around children.

Disingenuous bullshit - there is no such thing as “casual consumption of heroin.” You can’t use heroin without getting high, but you can absolutely drink alcohol without getting drunk.

Yay for the American oligarchs

This was the case for so many veggies for me… my parents were not amazing cooks. Spinach was the worst, just a big slimy pile, but now I love it.

Why not both?

I’m guessing B will happen first, just because we have so much more control of the environment, but we’re still so far away from either one… Maybe I’ll get to see the early stages sometime in my life.

I don’t really care either way. Like Digg and Reddit before it, Lemmy will eventually kill itself in confusion and another will take its place. I don’t really care if it grows or shrinks in the meantime 🤷‍♂️ it is what it is

If only there was some sort of review process for code to get into the kernel…

There is no more for the US to give Israel.

…are you aware of what the US arsenal contains? We have given them very, very few of our capabilities. Trump wants to open them.

The UK is a FPTP system with 7.5 significant parties

… I’m not sure how to break this to you, but the UK is a monarchy and has literally never elected their leader.

FPTP isn’t nearly as problematic in a system with distributed representation like Parliament, the Senate, or the House. It is massively problematic when electing a singular leader.

There is no legitimate third-party candidate in a first past the post system.

No, or at least not at the federal level, that’s why I saying to campaign locally for vote reform.

Vote reform is needed because first past the post is a bad system. Third party candidates are pointless because of the first past the post system. You can acknowledge that the system is broken and work towards fixing it while still making a choice that has an actual effect.

You know that Trump is a worse option, and you know that voting for a leftist third party will make it easier for him to be elected. These are simple facts. You can either choose to use the information or ignore it and prioritize your feelings. Maybe you don’t have queer friends, or female friends, or minority friends and none of that matters to you 🤷‍♂️

I’ll keep fighting for people’s lives instead of your empty virtue signal for Stein. I don’t care that you feel better because you feel like you aren’t voting for genocide. You are enabling Trump, and he has been very explicit that he wants to give Israel more.

Enjoy your warm fuzzy feelings for doing what is wrong. That’s totally your right 🤷‍♂️

There is no worse genocide

Okay. The extra dead will feel great about that fact.

No one, not one human with a brain and sense of humanity would vote for genocide, so two candidates can be struck off as choices.

Okay. Protect your feelings at the expense of Palestinian lives, that’s your right as an American with no vested interest in others. I’m just pointing out what you’re actually accomplishing.

the democrats, which are funded by the military industrial complex more than the republicans

[citation needed]

Tell us how they work for our interests, not the oligarchs, please.

Yes, they’re all oligarchs. Stein included - her net worth is nearly 10x Harris’s and Walz’s combined, you fucking dolt. You’re not moving the needle, you’re just helping a worse candidate gain office.

I’ve said this a million times, if the two candidates were Hitler and Hitler again, but he funded a little bit more the healthcare system who would you vote for? None is the answer.

Yes, I would fucking vote for Healthcare Hitler. I don’t care that you feel bad while doing it, i care about what the potential outcomes are. You get hitler either way, why would you not make a choice that leads to a better future?

You’re so concerned with your own feelings that you’re actively trying to make everyone’s lives worse just so you don’t feel bad. The only positive that your vanity vote provides anyone is that your fragile feelings are protected.

Anyway I’m not voting for genocide little buddy. It’s weird you’re trying to convince me to.

Keep telling yourself that, friend. A vote for Stein is a vote for a worse genocide. I’m sorry you prioritize your feelings over their lives.

After all, if you’re going to hell, does it matter if it’s slightly slower or slightly faster

So you don’t actually care about the people being genocided, just how it affects you? Voting Stein will lead to more Palestinian deaths, and you are explicitly saying that you’re okay with that. Cool. You sound great.

You should try to enact change locally, then. You throwing your vote away doesn’t change what our system is, it just elects the candidate that will kill more people.

It’s reality. Campaign for vote reform.

Congrats, your actions likely lead to even more Palestinian deaths. Yay, you “took a stand.” The extra dead will be so thankful.

You’re allowed to do whatever you want, I just want you to understand that you’re choosing to literally do nothing 🤷‍♂️ you’re not making a stand, you’re not sending a message, and you’re not enacting change. You’re voting for Donald Trump while making yourself feel like you’re fighting an ideological battle.

Democracy enjoyers understand that this version of democracy doesn’t care about third parties 🤷‍♂️ vote for the lesser evil and campaign locally for vote reform