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Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The vote was 50-48 in favor of Kavanaugh.
Senators Collins, Flake, and Manchin had already announced their intentions to confirm Kavanaugh before the vote was held. Senator Lisa Murkowski, who was previously ready to vote "no", agreed to vote "present" instead so that Senator Steve Daines could attend his daughter's wedding instead of being present in the Senate to support Kavanaugh.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 06 2018, @09:45PM (15 children)
Please reconsider. The Libertarian Party and the Green Party are worth voting for. I'll be splitting my vote this November between both of them.
Not voting only empowers the uniparty.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 06 2018, @11:23PM (2 children)
Yes, or potentially groups like Justice Democrats and various other smaller groups within the parties that have requirements about policy.
I'm planning on mostly just voting for any candidate on the ballot that's refusing to take corporate money, regardless of what their policy positions are because that's the only policy position that really matters. After the elections if those candidates get in, you can talk to them and make your wishes heard, but if they're taking the money, then it doesn't much matter who they are.
In some ways this is going to be a tough year in terms of voting. I hate my democratic senator, but I'm terrified about what would happen if the GOP gains another seat given the damage they've already done to our democracy.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday October 07 2018, @12:03PM (1 child)
vote for them, but don't give them money. the dnc will claw the money back for the candidates they like. it is what hillary clinton had the dnc do when she took over the party-- claw the money back and give it to her instead.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @07:57PM
This is a good reason to look towards the Libertarians and Greens. Anybody who donated to Bernie Sanders should never forget that their money went into Clinton's coffers.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday October 06 2018, @11:37PM (5 children)
No, individuals may be worth voting for but parties are organizations dedicated to amassing power at the expense of all else.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @01:39AM (4 children)
> dedicated to amassing power at the expense of all else.
dedicated to dismantling power held over citizens
FYFY
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 07 2018, @02:42AM (3 children)
Yes, you must. Let me know when you plan on starting.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday October 07 2018, @03:18AM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 07 2018, @02:46PM (1 child)
Nah. Kids today got no work ethic. He quit before he even finished listing everything that needed fixing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 08 2018, @12:08AM
Get a room dudes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @05:06AM
thats funny. If you want a protest vote, do, get other people to, write in Lyndon LaRouche. imagine the shitstorm if he garnered a statistically significant anount of votes.
No, he is a crank, and a crackpot, but it would hopefully wake everyone else up.
just a bit surprised Wikipedia says he's still alive. the LaRouchies were comic relief on the UW campus in the late 80s)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @12:11PM (2 children)
"Not voting only empowers the uniparty."
But voting for a party so small that you would literally need to convince half the country to do the same for it to matter means you'll be handing Trump 2020 just like how you'll be handing the GOP the senate very soon. Well played. Enjoy the country you'll be empowering.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @01:59PM
What else do you suggest? Ammo box?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 07 2018, @02:49PM
By not voting third party you ensure even more power will accrue to the two parties that are already supremely corrupt and authoritarian. Spending your vote to make sure the wrong lizard doesn't get elected is insane.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @05:18PM (1 child)
Notably the green party is more openly sexist than is the DNC or the RNC. It says so right there in their charter. The Libertarian party is of some interest, until the stoner actually speaks. The thing is, that these parties do not have mutually exclusive interests. Good environmental mangement is good economic policy.
The oddities of the parties are not neccessarily something to be particularly disappointed about. In either case, the only thing to do is start a local chapter and make it your own. If you can get enough people together, you can tweak the platform to your liking. In any case, yeah. The time to start was 2016. So get out there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @06:54PM
The identity politics is the one thing that gives me pause with the Green Party, but as TMB suggests always look at what individual candidates are proposing. I'd go with Socialist Equality Party over Green Party since Trotskyism explicitly rejects identity politics, but SEP is very small and looks to only have 1 candidate in the entire USA. Most voters in the USA will have at least one Green or Libertarian candidate on their ballot, often many. Libertarian Party in particular is very good about getting ballot access.