# You vote third party for President, and the worse option gets in. Do you feel any responsibility?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [May 16, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-vote-third-party-for-president-and-the-worse-option-gets-in-do-you-feel-any-responsibility/853949 "2020-05-16T22:51:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Unreconstructed\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/76d3ee/32.png) [@Unreconstructed\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unreconstructed_Man)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-vote-third-party-for-president-and-the-worse-option-gets-in-do-you-feel-any-responsibility/853949/158 "2020-05-23T12:09:58Z")

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> [@k9bfriender](#):
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> I don’t know, someone who, in our very first interaction, before I ever said anything at all to you, called me an “unrepentant cunt”

Actually, I called you a _disingenuous_ cunt. I’d forgotten about it, but I looked back over that thread and I stand by it as an accurate description of your behaviour at the time. If you don’t like salty language, stay out of the Pit. You clearly bear a grudge, and you brought that into this thread a year later. Poor show.

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> The fact that what Joe said wasn’t racist, much less really fucking racist aside, it took me all of 15 seconds to find that quote from Trump.

And old white man says that black people who don’t toe his line are race traitors. If you don’t think that’s racist then… well, all I get from that is you don’t understand what racism is.

Also, I don’t believe for a moment you’d be taking this line if anyone with an R after their name, even a moderate like Mitt Romney, had said what Joe said.

And well done for finding that quote from Trump. Truly, your google skills are better than mine. That doesn’t prove I was asking in bad faith.

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> I thought that, given that you believed that Trump wouldn’t have said anything racist against blacks…

I never said Trump _wouldn’t_ have said anything racist against blacks. I said that _I’d not heard_ Trump say anything so racist against blacks, and _at the time I wrote that I hadn’t_. And I even qualified it by saying I genuinely didn’t know. Now I know otherwise.

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> …would have heard at lest some of the racist comments that he has made, and had some reason to defend them. You would not have been the first on this board to do exactly that.

Well, you were wrong about that.

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> Tell you what, I’ll answer what questions, and respond to what comments that interest me.

Okay, well I’ve blocked you now so you can answer whatever you like.

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