• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 months ago

    I still have my Bernie sticker on my laptop. Big RIP to the future that could have been.

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      6 months ago

      2016 taught me that 3rd party and no voters tilt the scale in the favor of Republicans. I’m getting flashbacks with all the comments on Lemmy here saying as much.

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        6 months ago

        Funnily enough it worked in the opposite direction in 1992. But in 2000 yeah, it happened then, too. And 2016.

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        6 months ago

        I still legitimately have flashbacks to election night in 2016. Fuck. It’s insane that it’s almost a decade ago. I can remember it like it just happened.

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      6 months ago

      Long before Bernie there was Al Gore in 2000 who lost because of a supreme court decision saying the majority vote did not matter in the US (not really, but it did decide the election and stop the Florida recounts). Not only changed the narrative on climate change for the future, but also about what matters for federal elections.

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      6 months ago

      I wrote in Bernie in the Democratic primary. IDK if that even gets counted; I don’t know how it works, but fuck man, someone reads it I know, even if from there it goes straight into the “N/A” column.