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I’ve got to assume they are finally understanding that they need to keep up some kind of facade for this to work. Theyve been incredibly obvious this whole time. Or maybe the handlers finally fired those other morons running the account.

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Hey, friend. I don’t know what that means. Thank you!

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OP is well known here and has been pretty obvious that they are not here in good faith.

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oh my fucking god I almost got mad and then I realized

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Ah, even the name. Nice.

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Wow, a mod just deleted that post of mine…

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Because of what you posted.

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other posters of this type post chaff for this purpose yeah

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Was wondering the same thing. wtf is going on here? Something isn’t right.

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What do you mean?

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Please don’t gaslight us. It’s a terrible look.

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Hey friend, he’s just here for the articles and definitely-existant discussion. Thank you!

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Third parties in the US are almost exclusively tools for siphoning votes off the main parties.

But if you still think government runs the show you are out to lunch. Corporations have been dictating policy for a long long time in the US, and the laws are only making it easier for corporations to directly own politicians.

The only one who will change this is if a huge amount of voters organizing and demanding change. Like current levels Republican stochastic terrorism, but for things like healthcare, education, workers rights, consumer rights etc.

Corporations spend a lot of time and money taking these things away from us, and we’ve been generally watching the middle class disappear for decades.

It will take sustained, active, pressure, and vigilance from the people to make corporate money is not worth it and politicians make decisions based on benefitting their constituents.

Unfortunately, nowadays most constituents only care about making life difficult for others instead of better for everyone including themselves.

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But we can at least start by going after Citizens United. Stochastic that shit please.

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This whole time, I’ve been seeing West on polls and assuming Kanye West was still on the ballot

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His group, he said, was “fighting back against their vote suppression scheme, leveling the playing field, and ensuring this November’s election will be free and fair.”

That’s a bit rich, a GOP group calling Dems out for vote suppression. Pot call the kettle black, anyone?

“The Democrats openly ran around this spring thumping their chests about how they were going to war against third party candidates and trying to limit the choices of the American people at the ballot box,” Collins told RealClearPolitics.

You know what though? If these folks really believe in free and fair - I want to see them spending money on elections where RCV or some other better than FPTP method is used.

Of course they wouldn’t because in those cases there’s no benefit to the GOP.

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