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lemmy.world going hard against third parties over the past few days, what has spooked them?
The potential of Trump winning. Unless you live outside of the U.S. or are very privileged a Trump victory would only be devastating.
In a first past the post system like the U.S. has, doing anything but voting for Harris is in fact supporting Trump.
CCP Gray actually put out a good video a while ago explaining why voting 3rd party in a FPTP system only hurts your interests.
In a place like Germany where you have proportional voting none of this applies and you should 100% vote for the best party.
https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo?si=y2NtQ2K6g9GkaNwM
Trump winning would have major ramifications for people outside the US also.
True!