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While the US campaign cycle is more extended than other countries’, even then the people who are going to be the main candidate for their respective parties (party leaders for example) are usually known well in advance and have managed to build up a reputation with their constituents before they even start campaigning. In this situation, you’d have to start way further back.

I’m not saying it’s the wrong way to go, but everyone should be aware that changing candidate to someone completely new this close to the election absolutely won’t be a cakewalk.

There are third parties, they just don’t have any support and the FPTP system is exactly why. If a third party with more leftist ideals form, they’d siphon most of their voters from the Democrats, which means that Republicans would have a bigger bloc and win. So to mitigate the worst result, it is strategically more valuable to vote for the one of the two biggest parties that you hate the least.

Proportional representation and the popular vote would make it easier for more parties to gain influence and in turn get voters.

Why are you so certain that people would instantly vote for a new candidate more than the incumbent president? I have only seen polls saying the exact opposite.

Regardless, time is ticking out. If a new candidate is gonna have time to build any sort of support or momentum, they need to get started yesterday and hit the ground running, the election is just getting closer.

The problem is that the previous accumulation of capital has centralized a lot of power in actors who have a financial incentive to stop renewables. If we could hit a big reset on everything then yes, I think renewables would win, but we’re dealing with a lot of very rich, very powerful people who really want us to keep being dependent on them.

Worst crime: Commenter doesn’t like him.

A third party won’t fix the issue, as long as you’ve got FPTP voting it’s gonna be a two horse race. You need the popular vote and you need proportional representation, and the only way to get those is by working from the ground up.

Actual question: What the hell is this comment? It reads like an LLM trained on Trump speeches.

It kills giants!? Someone call Thor!

I mean, not for lack of trying, they did stage a coup and plant the Shah of Iran as the leader for a while

The horizontal position of the solid colored circle is the percentage (further to the right means higher) and the opaque color band is the margin for error.

I think most western governments aren’t totalitarian dictatorships that are willing to burn through public funds in order to gain geopolitical advantages over their adversaries.

Do note that if China gains a market advantage, the price will likely go up to reflect the real cost of production.

I think the tariffs are because the Chinese government seems to be pumping money into the electric car industry so they can keep prices artificially low and corner the market, then use their market position to extort other countries into giving in to their totalitarian politics. The more dependence we have on China, the more power the CCP wields internationally.

What was the joke?

I’m not sure that fawn feel much fear since they’re supposed to lie in one spot and wait for their mother, a quick search turned up “Very young fawns do not appear to have any natural fear of predators, and may even walk up to humans” although I haven’t been able to conclusively verify the claim.

Oh my god, that picture of your dog carefully smelling it might just make my heart explode.

“And I had to do all this just to say that the environment is fucked.”

AOC? An ambitious woman who just barely will have squeezed past the minimum age requirement by the time of the election and half the country has decided is a communist? Don’t get me wrong, I think she’d be a fantastic candidate, maybe even the best, but I sincerely doubt that she’d poll better than Biden, even considering his horrendous performance in yesterday’s debate.

The person who proposed it to begin with, Ylva Johansson is (to my great shame) a Swedish social democrat. Social democrats in Sweden unfortunately have their heads up their own asses a lot of the time.

The noise cats make before they throw up.

Are you implying that helping and saving people is not worthwhile if it doesn’t immediately put an end to the war?