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Really you don't need to read more than one chart:

If you vote for anyone other than Harris, you're voting for Trump:

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 86 points 2 months ago (30 children)

certain lemmy users around these parts absolutely frothing at the mouth seeing this graph

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 56 points 2 months ago (25 children)

A similar article will be posted every time Monk posts one supporting a 3rd party spoiler from now on.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

so you're gonna have to find like 20 articles a day.... also don't forget to copy paste a 6 paragraph defense of "I swear I'm not Russian I just post the articles" in the comments of every post

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

I do have the time... :)

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Genuine question: why has he not been banned? To me he seems to repeatedly violate the rule about arguing in good faith, and - to be honest - his passive aggressive civility feels at times more hostile than straight up attacks.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We've talked about it amongst ourselves with the mods and admins and have concluded that having a shitty opinion is not infringing.

They do post legitimate sources with legitimate opinions. They're BAD opinions, but you aren't going to get banned for having a bad opinion.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I don't much have an issue with the material they chose to post - the nature of a link aggregator will sort them to the bottom regardless due how how voting works and as you say, they're legitimate sources.

My issue is more regarding their conduct in the comment sections.

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[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not the opinion, it's the JAQ energy and baiting.

If they just posted articles, that's one thing.

They legitimately try to bait people into being heated about things. Afterwhich, they cry victim

[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but is it against the rules to be an asshole or a crybaby ? I tend to say stupid shit when drinking and have gotten a ban and a few comments and posts deleted, but it would be a shame for something minor to get me a bigger ban or what not.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I'm not going to directly link the user because that's bad behavior but they have a very clear routine they follow on every post. Having an opinion is fine, acting like you are following a script is eventually really lame. Especially when the end of the script usually is calling people out for victimizing them

This user often posts about Jill Stein, and is exclusively critical of democrats.

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[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You are correct, albeit for the wrong reasons :D

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh God I didn't even realize how badly proportioned the pie charts were. They didn't even generate new ones they just copy pasted an image and changed the percentage number. Aghhhhhhhh I hate this I hate this I hate this

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

And now you will see it everywhere and it will annoy you ever more.

Also I at first though that your profile pick was that of Darth Vitiate since it fits your user name. But its actually soldier with twin tails and I hate it.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm frothing at the mouth because it's distorted, making an easy comparison by visuals impossible. The numbers don't match the size of the pies

[–] Bertuccio@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Someone fucked these up badly and there's no way to tell from this how.

Are the numbers swapped between candidates but the sizes correct? Are the sizes swapped between candidates and the numbers correct?

As an aside, this is why serious data people don't use pie charts. They're terrible for lots of reasons, one being it's very hard to compare areas instead of lengths, like a bar chart, as demonstrated by how many people didn't notice these were so bad at first.

If you see data presented in a pie chart you should immediately be suspicious that it's dishonest or incompetent.

None of that is to take away that voting for third parties this election is a terrible move - just saying this chart is useless.

[–] Sop@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Not really. The point has always been that the dems need pressure to change their genocidal policies. If you vote blue unconditionally then it won’t take long until the next blue candidate will be on the same level as trump. Show these graphs to the democratic party and tell them to listen to 3rd party voters.

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