Comment on If I live in a red state, would it be better to vote for rfk to take votes away from trump?

• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because there are lots of other people who are not Trump.

  Voting for candidates with more extreme policies shifts the political needle, even if they don’t win.

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  • frankPodmore@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OP has given us no info about the candidates they’re considering other than RFK, who is a lunatic. There’s no merit to encouraging RFK’s views, so Biden should be OP’s choice.

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      RFK has significantly less lunacy than Trump, and is much more coherent than both Biden and Trump.

      He still supports Israel though, so there is no anti genocide candidate.

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      • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        didn’t he literally have a worm burrowing through his brain

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      • frankPodmore@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        RFK is less coherent than Biden politically and intellectually, which is what matters.

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  • JackiesFridge@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Voting for other candidates only shifts the needle if they win. If they can’t possibly win, nothing is accomplished by voting for them.

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Incorrect. Bernie shifted the needle and didn’t win.

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      On Thursday he rolled out two new policy proposals:

      • Lower the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 60.
      • Forgive student debt for low-income and middle-class families who attended public colleges and universities and some private institutions.

      "Senator Sanders and his supporters can take pride in their work in laying the groundwork for these ideas,

      npr.org/…/joe-biden-won-the-primary-now-hes-tryin…

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      • JackiesFridge@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Didn’t win? Dude’s a congressman. He’s in.

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