i have a policy of voting only for candidates who i want to win. it's not a team sport for me. its not placing a bet for me. it's a matter of choosing the candidate i want to win.
the narrative of spoilers assumes that the votes belong to one party and are stolen by the other. this is wrong. the votes belong to the voters and it is up to candidates to win them.
Polls make it very clear that they both serve as spoilers in the general election
not for me. i haven't voted for a democrat for president since 2008. i don't believe you'll find a single person who is voting for them who would have otherwise voted for biden or trump.
i've been donating to cornel west monthly, but i might end up voting for jill stein again anyway, and it has literally nothing to do with what republicans think is in their own interest.
I don't give a fuck. sell subscriptions, push ads, whatever. but if you deny access based on an ability to pay, what you have to say isn't worth my time.
Is a broken down motorist the same exact thing as a person blocking an ambulance, repeatedly, being informed that they are blocking an ambulance, and even after being informed continues to do so?
further, I wouldn't just remove the word preemptive if I thought this was really an issue. I'd go find a reliable source that would support a rewrite of the whole sentence or paragraph or section.
then I would go to the talk page and I would let everybody know what I'm doing and why. and then I wouldn't do it for 24 hours. and then I would make the edits and if anybody reverted it I would revert it back and then direct them to the talk page.
isn't it accurate to say it's preemptive? you could say unprovoked, but I don't think that's strictly true. I think preemptive is the best way to frame it: it shows that they struck first and leaves it open as to whether anybody would have struck them at all.
even a source which is generally reliable can have its reliability questioned in any context. and a source that is generally unreliable for some reason or another can be considered reliable in some context.
i have a policy of voting only for candidates who i want to win. it's not a team sport for me. its not placing a bet for me. it's a matter of choosing the candidate i want to win.