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I still think you're just wrong. If a person voted 3rd party because he found both major-party candidates unacceptable, he reserves his right to complain about the outcome if either major-party candidate wins. That person had no real reason to expect his candidate to win, but he absolutely retains the right to complain about the outcome. (Ideally that complaining will be limited because jesus f*** it's annoying listening to crybabies wasting breath the way they complain others waste votes, and because complaining isn't actually a useful activity if separated from actual action, but everyone has his own usually boring voice.)

When you waste your vote I cannot take your complaint seriously! If you really, really cared about climate change you would vote in a way that might make a difference. Jill Stein's run has only helped Trump.

So when the EPA is gutted, the last people I wanna hear from are her supporters!

Nonsense. Say your hypothetical voter cares deeply about climate change, but decides in the end that military intervention in the Middle East is his deciding issue. That voter can easily, and in good conscience, vote Stein, and retain every right to complain that Trump won the presidency.

Judging and turning on your fellow citizens--especially those possibly close to you in ideology, with whom coalitions could be built--is just pathetic. It's pathetic when conservatives call their almost-brethren RINOs. And it's pathetic watching the center/left turn on itself. Once the election is over, why not focus on the future?
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I still think you're just wrong. If a person voted 3rd party because he found both major-party candidates unacceptable, he reserves his right to complain about the outcome if either major-party candidate wins. That person had no real reason to expect his candidate to win, but he absolutely retains the right to complain about the outcome. (Ideally that complaining will be limited because jesus f*** it's annoying listening to crybabies wasting breath the way they complain others waste votes, and because complaining isn't actually a useful activity if separated from actual action, but everyone has his own usually boring voice.)

When you waste your vote I cannot take your complaint seriously! If you really, really cared about climate change you would vote in a way that might make a difference. Jill Stein's run has only helped Trump.

So when the EPA is gutted, the last people I wanna hear from are her supporters!

Nonsense. Say your hypothetical voter cares deeply about climate change, but decides in the end that military intervention in the Middle East is his deciding issue. That voter can easily, and in good conscience, vote Stein, and retain every right to complain that Trump won the presidency.

Judging and turning on your fellow citizens--especially those possibly close to you in ideology, with whom coalitions could be built--is just pathetic. It's pathetic when conservatives call their almost-brethren RINOs. And it's pathetic watching the center/left turn on itself. Once the election is over, why not focus on the future?
This was not a hypothetical election! The stakes couldn't have been higher! What is nonsense is that people chose to check out, either by not voting or wasting their vote on someone who would not even break 5% of the vote!
Not to say 3rd party candidates lost it for Clinton but they were a major distraction in the.campaign and a subtraction in votes for Clinton.

And Alafter being so thoughtless, I don't want to hear them complain about what the Republicans are about to do!
You are judging me and that makes you a hypocrite Captain.

The system isn't good and  Clinton was flawed but this was a no brainer! I stand by my statements.
If Billy is offended, so be it. If food stamps are a lifeline for his family, then he should have been campaigning for Clinton! If his. If his conscious was more important than feeding his family, more power to him. I am distraught about all the millions of Americans about to be screwed over by the Trump train!

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