I may have to start doing that too. I don’t like knowing that if an instance I’m on get mad at me, they can just delete all my stuff.

Yep. I’m ok with it.

I didn’t see anything that I haven’t read anywhere else. And all the symptoms are probably better for the person than being fat. The amount of fat people I see daily is appalling. You all need to do something.

I’m hoping they take fat pills just until they get to healthy weight, then stop and adjust lifestlyes. But many won’t, and the long-term use is what is gonna be the big issue I think.

Meh, I’m fine with it. I think if you read enough people saying something, you can pick out that there is probably some truth to it.

It’s not like they could come to Lemmy for info, because all they’d find is “Capitalism sucks! Eat the rich! Revolution!!” on every single post, regardless of subject. I posted a workout routine to a workout sub here once, and it quickly devolved into shit like “Cheeto man doesn’t want people to work out.” Lemmy posters are fucking obsessed with making everything political. Even health stuff.

So I don’t think Reddit is too bad for their use case in this scenario. I came here from Reddit, but I’m on Reddit more than Lemmy again. Reddit has more people. More subjects. And less politics.

I was surprised to find out that informants have to pay taxes on their govt money too.

This. Is. Beautiful.

I want one!

“Nichols approached the residence wearing a black trench coat, a Demon Slayer anime shirt, and flip flops.”

I have a stalker here on Lemmy, and I’ve always pictured him looking exactly like this guy. lol

Wearing a black trench coat, flip flops, and an anime shirt. Look guys, it’s someone from Lemmy! LMAO

Pretty much how Lemmy thinks! lmao

Odds even better from a brand-spankin’ new 1-month-old account,

Obivously you didn’t look at my profile where I listed my accounts. My original account is Lemmy.today. Then it was lemmings.world, but it’s closing. So I created this one. I am not a new 1-month-old account.

All that info is right in my profile.

I have been on Lemmy for 3 years, bub.

I think I’d bet money I did, in fact.

So you bet money that someone on Lemmy who says they are not a republican, is a republican? Um…doubt it. But if true, you are taking Lemmy way too seriously.

Again tho, if I were republican, wouldn’t it be better for me to vote Republican? Why would I vote third party if I were a republican? Seems kinda the long way around, don’t you think?

No you didn’t. If I were Republican I would have voted Republican. Why would I do a roundabout voting thing, rather than just vote Republican if I wanted a Republican to win?

It’s essentially unknowable, because the moment we remove third party votes, we can’t say for certain that margins the major parties would’ve ended up with

But you didnd’t say that in your reply to me. You specifically said, “Disproving your point technically” and “but rather to refute your point that Trump would’ve won without the third party voters.”

Also, I think it is knowable by numbers. I specifically said that if all the people who voted third party in 2024 prez election had voted for Harris instead, she still would have lost the election. The numbers show it.

We don’t base it on popular vote and NEVER have. It’s Electoral votes. Now I wish we went by popular vote. And I’m all for going by popular vote. But that hasn’t happened yet, and wasn’t a reality in 2024, which is the time frame for my example.

I’m behind ya on wanting popular vote. But you were incorrect in you orginal reply by implying that my statement was wrong. The numbers prove it.

The popular vote/electoral vote argument has been happening during every election in my lifetime. I ready for that to change, but that doesn’t make my statement or facts incorrect.

Harris lost to Trump by such a large margin, that even if 3rd party voters had voted for her instead, Trump still would have won.

If you wanna point fingers, point them at non-voters. That’s what would have changed the election.

Yep, and claim that we’re Russian bots and Propaganda Bots…all because we use facts. lol

Yep. Dems have been running on, “but, but…but our candidate isn’t republican” strategy for so long. And they still haven’t changed.

And from some of the comments in this thread, they are supported in doing that. So they’ll keep fucking it up. lol

I’ll happily admit I’m wrong if they put AOC forward as pres candidate. If they don’t put AOC in there, then I’ll keep voting third party.

I also truly hope the uncommitted No Vote / Third Party voters complicit in his election (I think I’ll call them Maga-lite at this point) have learned a thing or two since last election, too.

I’m a third party voter. And I did learn something. That I was right. I’ll be voting third-party again to. Dems suck. Republicans suck. I vote for who I want to win, not against who I don’t want to win.

Popular vote doesn’t decide the election and NEVER has decided the presidential election. U.S. Constitution (Article II, Section 1) has always required the president to be chosen by the Electoral College or by the House of Representatives in rare cases where no one gets a majority of electoral votes.

The popular vote is only used by states to help choose their electors. It has never overridden or replaced the Electoral College.

Your popular-vote math is correct about shifting all ~2.92 million actual third-party votes to Harris flips the popular vote. But the presidency is decided by the Electoral College.

In the three big swing states you mentioned:

Pennsylvania: Trump’s margin (120,266) > third-party votes (~68k–92k) → PA does not flip.

Michigan + Wisconsin: yes, they flip (+25 EV).

Result: Harris ends at 251 EV, Trump at 287 EV. Trump still wins the presidency.

So the numbers actually confirm my point: even if every person who voted third-party had voted for Harris instead, Trump still becomes president.

All of this is straight from the official FEC certified results.

The popular vote does not matter, and has not mattered for a while. The Electoral vote decides the election. Which by the way, BOTH parties refuse to change.

I mean, some people can’t buy because they can’t afford them.

Exactly this. I’d love an EV, but I can’t afford to buy one and can’t afford the required upgrade to my hosue to charge on here.

I think a lot of people on Lemmy forget how much half of the population makes for salary. A lot of Lemmy’s claim they got jobs that paid around $85K right out of college. Most of the population has never made that on any job in their life.

Exactly why I will never reward them with my vote. Unless they pic AOC, cuz I like her.

Agreed. PO management is a mess these days.

Surely it has nothing to do with the system that has all of us boxed into nicely manicured corners.

That’s totally the reason for most of the problems. I just refuse to stay in those corners.

And like I said, even if every single person who voted for 3rd party in 2024 voted for Harris, she still would have lost. That’s how big her margin of loss was.

It wasn’t 3rd party voters that destroyed her chances, it was non-voters.

Be mad at them, not me.