I figure I’ll vote PSL again like I did last time since they seem to be among the most principled leftist parties we have in this hellscape. I’ve seen a lot of support for Jill Stein but iirc she has some very weird reactionary conspiracy-brained views. How we feeling? Is supreme running this time around?

edit: to be clear I assume most of the based parties will not be on the ballot in most states, I’ve written in my picks before and I’ll do it again KKKopmala knifecat

  • IronJoe1984 [comrade/them, he/him]
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    228 months ago

    The owner of the local game store in my area is a green. So I have got to personally meet Dr.Stein, Ralph Nader, and Howie Hawkins. So I tend to vote green. However New York made it where parties have to cross a voting threshold in elections in order to remain on the ballot. This has made it so I have to vote green in every election.

  • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
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    138 months ago

    PSL

    There’s mail in ballots where I live and it’s easy, I probably wouldn’t bother with casting a meaningless vote for a fringe communist party if I had to waste time to drive to a polling place to vote in person tbh

    Voting on whatever ballot initiatives are good and against the bad ones

    Made a personal decision to myself that I’m never voting for any Democrat ever again for whatever office in the framework of “harm reduction” unless they’re clearly and genuinely running against the rest of the party and are openly anti-Zionist, either gonna leave all those blank, write in something rude, or throw those away on the most entertaining crank running for each office (unfortunately probably not since they all seem to be Q chuds or libertarian cranks, or incoherent woo woo new agey libs. What I wouldn’t give for a fun Posadist crank running for comptroller or whatever)

    spoiler

    My phone wanted to correct “Posadist” to “Piss dust”

    michael-laugh

  • hypercracker [he/him]
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    288 months ago

    I was honestly leaning toward voting for Kamala after the Walz pick but after that reichy ass convention and declaring their bottomless well of support for the zionist entity in no uncertain terms, it’s back to voting PSL in a swing state for me

    • TheDoctor [they/them]
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      I was waiting for discussions with the Uncommitted project to conclude. I’d been saying I’d vote for Kamala if she fully supported an arms embargo. And of course there was wishy washy messaging that she was considering it. But yeah the DNC speech made it clear that she’ll be continuing the Democrats’ fun little trick of doing Republican border policy and funding genocide in Palestine.

      surprised-pika, right?

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    158 months ago

    Depends who’s on the ballot. PSL would be ideal but I think in this state they’ve got some weird “recognized write-in” status, which makes me worry that writing them in won’t get registered by the state. So most likely Cornel West. Agreed that Stein has a bunch of weird positions that are more a distraction that helpful to the left wing cause.

    • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]
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      48 months ago

      a registered write in candidate just means that the state will record a write in for Claudia de la Cruz… if they weren’t registered the state will not report it at all

  • Kuori [she/her]
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    238 months ago

    I was assured Joe Biden was the only one who could beat Trump and save democracy. So I’m Still With Him.

  • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
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    268 months ago

    I don’t think PSL is gonna make it on the ballot in my state, so im trying to decide between Lenin, Stalin, and Mao.

    Obvs for local shit it different but those are my presidential picks. Stalin is really irking me these days cause he just HAD to stop at Berlin :eye-roll:

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    If I was in a state where presidential elections mattered, I’d probably be at a toss up between PSL and the Greens, if I was in a state where presidential elections don’t matter (which I am) and gave a shit about presidential elections I’d probably vote for vermin supreme.

    That said I live in a state where presidential elections don’t matter anyways and I don’t really give a shit about presidential elections, so I’m not wasting energy on writing anyone in