Demands for an immediate ceasefire are growing, and, despite promises of indefinite war from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the United States, as Israel’s principal weapons provider, could shut down the bombardment with one phone call.

  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    They’re getting downvotes because the US has a FPTP electoral system that automatically makes it so that a third party candidate just ensures that the other guy you really didn’t want to win, wins. See the election of 1912, and every single election that Ross Perot entered.

    Until we switch to an election system that actually allows for third parties, that is just an argument to hand fascists power.

    Edit: to be clear, I didn’t want Perot or the Republican candidates every single time he spoiled the chances of a Republican getting elected. I would have been quite happy with Teddy Roosevelt getting elected for a third term in 1912, that would have possibly prevented the rise of Stalin, Hitler, and at least the European theater of WWII.

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      9 months ago

      While I dont necessarily disagree with your points, America pre-Civil Rights Act. Which is where Republican and Democrat dominance is speeding us back to.