Welp…

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    How many weeks before he gets bored and abandons it when things don’t immediately work, just like everything else in his useless life?

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        He already bought himself an entire department with no oversight but got bored of it after a few months.

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    I fail to see how splitting up the fascists is anything but a good thing. Let them fight.

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      True that. Although in a would be tri-party system, so in case this new party gains somewhat reasonable backing, it gains significant bargaining power over the much bigger parties because it would likely hold keys to majority vote. So it might just become much greater than its apparent size… But yeah, I doubt much anything comes out of this.

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    Odd strategy.

    Leftists won’t buy it, and most liberals aren’t going to buy it, and it might divide the right, while team blue is fracturing.

    Gonna be a 4 on one, not a 3.

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    Reading the article to see what ridiculous name he’s going to give it.

    “The America Party”?

    TBH, pretty tame in Musk standards. At least it’s pronounceable.

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    I hope this would split the vote among magas and republicans and the dems would be a shoe in. Sadly, I’ve lost a lot of faith in the dems and their ability to effectively fight for the people. Maybe we need even more parties?

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    One obstacle all third parties face in the US is party-line voting, which favors the dominant parties.

    On possible outcome is that he puts a lot of money into making third party candidates more viable, like efforts to ban party-line voting or supporting ranked choice voting. So, you could vote for the America Party candidate and then if they don’t have a majority ñ, you vote could roll over to the Dem or GOP candidate of your choice, reducing your risk of voting third party.

    These changes would help Libertarian, Green and other parties as well. More choice for voters!

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    11 hours ago

    Oh, can “aliens” start political parties in the USA?

    Imma start a “British Colony” party over there; anyone want to join me? MAABCA.

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    The entire Democrat demographic hates him for kissing Trumps ass.

    The entire Trump demogaphic hates him for going against Trump.

    And the Republican demographic have never liked him as far as I’m aware.

    So… who are his voters? Probably just a convenient way to shuffle money around.

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      I’m all for it. If Brewster’s Millions taught me anything it’s that involving yourself in US politics is the quickest way to lose vast sums of money.

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    Maybe that’s the only way US will ever get a third party. I’m not an American but I do think american politics system would be significantly stronger even with a minority 3rd party. Can you imagine how powerful US would be with a diverse parlament that has true competition of ideas not just partisan voting? That’s true “checks and balances”.

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      The problem is the US isn’t setup for third parties to really work, all this is going to do is most likely be a spoiler vote from Republicans and give more wins to Democrats. Maybe if they’re lucky they’ll win a few seats in uncompetitive districts.

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      We don’t need more false choice though. This would be a another bourgeois party. The cards might be shuffled a bit and the rhetoric might change but it’d still be playing the same game with the same cards. It’s still a game of “choose your favorite faction of rich people” despite the tweaks in messaging. There will still be an assurance of “nothing will fundamentally change” to the owners and donors.

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    12 hours ago

    The American Billionaires Party?

    If they manage to steal half the GOPs votes, we have reason to thank him.

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      I’m not opposed to his.

      A party composed of billionaires.

      That will help in a situation where we have to do a French revolution.