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This particular poster seems to think I didn't read the article, and if I had, I couldn't possibly disagree with it.
My takeaways and disagreements:
This poster throws big words, likely without understanding them, and definitely incorrectly. The article was all over the place, but mostly confirmed what I already believed. There is a huge faction in the Third Party movement who wants Trump elected. Third party views are mostly single-issue magical thinking type views, unaware of how elections actually work in the US. They agree on very little with each other, let alone with the Major Parties, and they expect us to trust us with the decision making. And entertaining them, right now, will result in greater harm than listening to Andrew Yang who capped the whole thing off with "we're with Harris".
There isn't cognitive dissonance here when I interact with these posters, dear reader. There is a desire to point out that they are wrong, that their choices are dangerous, that you shouldn't listen to them, and that you should cast your vote for Kamala Harris, no matter where you are, how red or blue your district is, how much you disagree with Biden's decisions over the past four years, or even if you think there's a genocide being enacted in Israel, because frankly, either she or Trump wins, and everything you might accuse the Biden/Harris Admin of doing will be done in spades by a future Trump admin, not just to Palestinians, but to Ukrainians, Taiwanese, Muslims, Mexicans, and a whole host of American groups such as LGBTQ+, minorities, non-Christians of all sects, and women. Maybe go read a primer of Project 2025 (I won't subject you to the whole almost thousand-page document) and give some serious thoughts as to why these people are trying to get you to throw your vote away on a Third Party Candidate with Trump on the election?
My vote is going to someone that's earned it, not someone that's demanding it because they presented a Boogeyman as something to vote against. The DNC will and has always had a Boogeyman to fear.
Liberals love invoking the marginalized while demanding we support the people that are still marginalized when they are in power.
I was well versed on P2025 before it became a topic of discussion on social media. And I know it's the current name of policies that have been around for decades going by a different name. And those issues have always ended up being bipartisan.
KOSA, which passed the senate 93-3 which will harm marginalized communities the most, specifically the trans community, originated with the Heritage Foundation.