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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • But, if the goal isn’t necessarily to win the election, only to absolve yourself of blame if you lose the election, then blaming 3rd party voters is the stance for you.

    Could it be a poor political platform, or just not even campaigning in the state? Maybe it’s just not being appealing enough to the 40% of the electorate that doesn’t vote. Couldn’t be.

    I feel like all the hate for 3rd parties is the same as the hate for immigrants. It’s all redirection and obfuscation.





  • People talk about it all the time. Ron Paul was a household name. People we’re talking about RFK JR a year ago. People were talking about 3rd parties due to Biden’s stance on Palestine. People were talking about it after that first debate. All that’s fine, but it only makes the two main parties sweat within 30 days of election. That’s when all the “throwing your vote away” rhetoric ramps up.

    Rather than doing better, working harder, or standing on better policy to turn out the 35% of people who don’t vote, it’s easier to vilify 1% of the people who do. That’s a problem.







  • Think of it more like Netflix. Netflix was great, then the market fractured and Netflix enshitified in response.

    What it would take here is for a publisher to become a real distributor in the space, but competition is weak right now. Just like it really took Disney wading in to disrupt Netflix, it would take someone equally large, like Microsoft, to disrupt Steam. Sorry Ubisoft, but you don’t cut it.