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US Politics 22h
Gonna be honest I’ve never understood the 2 party system. Seems like we are intentionally being divided. There are plenty of great and terrible people on both sides
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Anonymous 22h

I don’t know if this next thing is a cause or outcome of our duopoly. But there’s some sort of stigma about voting third party in this country. As if those third party votes are taking away from the main two. Instead of being a sign of people seeing smaller parties fit their interests than the two main and only parties.

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Anonymous 22h

Yeah I agree. I wish I could vote for more far right candidates but we got only moderate right people like Trump.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 22h

Part of it is probably informed by some states (Kansas for a time as an example) requiring declaring Dem or GOP for party status in order to register for voting.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 21h

Well I mean the stigma is just that most people understand that the math doesn’t work out, it’s essentially impossible to boost a third party onto the national stage. The theoretical ability to do so is really only an illusion of choice, it’s realistically impossible given our current system.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 21h

Cause every election there’s gonna be fascists and centrists and most people who want to avoid fascists know their chances of winning are close to zero if they go third party so huge chunks of them will go democrat. Those two parties have all the money too, they’re too entrenched to be voted out. Idk what the solution is but I just don’t think it’s possible via voting

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Anonymous replying to -> last_republican_on_yikyak 21h

How old are you? Elon would probably let you lick his balls if you’re not too old

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 19h

Whatever gets me an internship in this Joe Biden economy.

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Anonymous replying to -> last_republican_on_yikyak 15h

How far right you wanna go? Brown people need papers to be on the streets type shit or what

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 9h

I’d rather not say on YikYak.

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Anonymous replying to -> last_republican_on_yikyak 4h

Give me the general shape of it then. Less rights for brown Americans and women I’d guess? Restrictions to keep gay people out of the public sphere?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 2h

Nope. It will be a more free country. Public sexual indecency will be punished. African Americans and women will have equal rights as everyone else. It would be beautiful.

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Anonymous replying to -> last_republican_on_yikyak 2h

Your statement is inherently contradictory, how is punishing public sexual indecency more free? What freedoms are created by instituting some sexual decency council to decide how much ass is ok to show?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1h

Because the children of Americans become more free.

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Anonymous replying to -> last_republican_on_yikyak 56m

That’s a non answer, do you want to try again? How does restricting clothing choices make people more free, as opposed to less?

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