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Cake day: September 11th, 2025

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  • Objectively wrong.

    In the US presidential election system, the Electoral College forces a maximum of 2 viable parties, and nothing else. It also favors Republicans as it gives them more value per received vote, meaning the Dems need to get more votes than Republicans to win each election, and even then it may not be enough like in 2016.

    So when you vote for a 3rd party candidate, not only are you again supporting the GOP’s victory, you are also allowing them to move the Overton window further right, which is exactly what’s been happening.

    The only thing that has successfully moved the Overton winfow left, in the US, is voting in Dem Socs in DNC primaries, and voting against the GOP candidate no matter what in general elections.

    Even if your Dem politician is a neo-liberal, voting them in is a SIGNIFICANT slowdown of shifting the Overton window right than by letting the Republican win.



  • Islam, like all big religions, is followed by people of countless backgrounds and cultures. They vary in their worship and they cherry pick and skew their religion like all religious folks do.

    Best you can do is criticize followers of specific implementations, or practices of specific rituals/traditions/etc.

    Ex: Wahhabist Muslims hold extremely violent and far-right beliefs that are executed by major terror groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

    This statement is both true, and not reflective of the majority of Muslims.