Most instances are still federated. Really?

It takes a lot of personal discontinuity to say that either the KKK or the SS would be voting for a black woman.

And yes, personal discontinuity is meant to be a nice way to say: you dumb.

These are just fascist nerds cosplaying as commies. Not a genuine Communist in the bunch

these people remind me of 4chan. idk if they're trolling, and there's definitely a chance that they're not. also yeah most seem like idiots or sadly really brainwashed

Looks like rage bait/ trolling to me.

Never understood the "throw your vote away" thing. Only one person will win. Almost 50% of people will not vote for them in any given election. Did they "throw their vote away" by not voting for the winner? That's just what voting is.

Hexbear people go two ways. They either come up with an amazing take, or they decide to manifest all of the collective stupid into 1 post.

This one is the latter.

The old "look at how well the system works you just have to move to make a difference" story

I don't think instances should necessarily all defederate. Now that instance blocking is a thing, the choice should be left to the user.

While I strongly disagree with the dogwhistles here, it's true. If your state voted for Trump or Clinton/Biden with >10% margin in the last two elections, there's almost zero chance the Trump/Harris election will go any differently.

I personally dislike both major party candidates (but dislike Trump more) and since my state (Utah) voted for Trump with ~20% margin in both prior elections (even in 2016 w/ McMullin taking >20% of the vote), I feel comfortable voting my conscience. I even voted for Biden last election on the off-chance that people here hated Trump enough to matter, but no, >20% spread.

So I'm back to voting third party. Even if every third party vote went to Harris, my state would still elect Trump with something like 15-25% spread. The only way that changes is if Kamala converts to my state's predominant religion and Trump literally outs himself as worshipping Satan, and even then we'd probably still go with Trump for some stupid reason.

So I vote for the next most popular third party, and in this case, that's Chase Oliver from the Libertarian Party. I'm also registered Libertarian, mostly because I think they have the best chance to actually get a message out about voting reform, but also because I'm probably closest to their views (though I disagree with the LP on a ton of issues, especially recently, and especially the local UT LP). He'll probably get 2-3% of the vote, perhaps less this year because he's gay. If that instead were the Green Party, I'd vote for them (even though I have even less in common), because my goal here is to send a message that the 2-party system sucks.

If your state is that polarized, there's really no point in voting for the minority party candidate, go third party and make a statement.

I don't understand why these people who pretend to be supreme leftists are putting alt-right dogwhistles in the Democratic candidate's name. I guess you can just call everyone you don't like a Nazi when everyone who disagrees in your echo chamber gets banned.

Abortion is on the ballot in ten states that isn't good for Republicans at all. Expect to see way more trolls talking about how they are suddenly voting for the green party despite there being an actual socialist candidate to vote for. Republicans are desperate and know they're in for big losses if they can't pull something out.

Florida has seen a huge increase of Republicans moving here from states where they were the underdogs. I expect a much wider margin in red favor this year. I would expect the compliment is true, that their states will have a wider blue margin. That is as long as they aren't committing voter fraud in one or the other state.

seriously kkk! i cant even.

Eh, if you're in a red state that doesn't do proportional voting with their electoral college votes, they've got a point.

I agree; swing states seem to be the only ones that matter when you vote duopoly and all you care about is "winning."

I, on the other hand, prefer to have standards, so stop wasting your vote on the status quo, be it Harris or Trump, you will be rewarding genocide.