• GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    If the race is neck and neck, and you vote for Micky mouse because you wanna feel superior to everyone around you, all you’ve done is make things worse.

    Depending on your location, you may have directly helped trump.

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        5 months ago

        Wrong. In some cases, if your district is competitive, and you’ve decided to vote for not-trump, if you vote for anyone but the other competitive candidate (in this case Biden), you allow trump to pull ahead due to first past the post voting.

        Edit: hypothetically if only 4 people vote,

        2 for trump 1 for Biden 1 for mickey

        Trump wins.

        Edit edit or more compelling…

        5 total voters.

        2 for trump 1 for Biden 1 for Mickey and one abstains

        Trump wins. If the mickey and the abstain voters don’t want trump, their best action was to vote for Biden, as that would have achieved:

        2 for trump 3 for Biden 0 for mickey.

        Biden wins.

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            5 months ago

            Bullshit. All conditions I just laid out, were declared in my above comment. Including location dependence.

            Edit because you seem to need help… The location dependence I’m referring to is that you need to be in a sufficiently competitive location for that clause to be relevant.

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              5 months ago

              you said a vote for anyone but Biden is a vote for trump. you’re backing away from that now, softening the claim to say it “allows him to pull ahead”. I’m just trying to keep the rhetoric honest.

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                    5 months ago

                    Except you. Scurry off in your lying shame

                    Edit to be clear

                    I was always clear that the act of voting for 3rd party/ spoiler candidates can result in a situation where trump pulls ahead by your vote’s absence. I never said it was a literal vote for trump.

                    This is basic decision making and it’s very concerning you can’t grasp it.

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                5 months ago

                If the race is neck and neck, and you vote for Micky mouse because you wanna feel superior to everyone around you, all you’ve done is make things worse.

                Depending on your location, you may have directly helped trump.

                That does not say “a vote for anyone but Biden is a vote for trump”… There are explicit conditionals that you’re ignoring lol

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      5 months ago

      Calm down. I’m in California. My vote doesn’t count.

      Go cry to the 65 million that don’t vote at all.

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        5 months ago

        This is a thread with you in it, not a broadcast to all possible non voters.

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        Your anti Biden campaign is what counts here because a) we are all here and b) every voter who reads it is not in California. You want to hate Biden that’s totally fine and cool, but leave this hypocritical shit at home. You are an anti Biden loudspeaker around here, not an anti trump voice who likes Biden less.

        Most of us see your posts and roll our eyes, but if you sour 10 minds to Biden and your vote doesn’t count, who are you helping? Not the non voters, not the voters who feel like you just posted (of which I am one), just the red hat brigade.

        If you want to be for trump then do it, if you want to hate Biden do it, but you’re yanking our dicks around here and I for one don’t like it. Do what you want, but expect this kind of response from the community to keep worsening; not that a downvote ever hurt anybody.

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          5 months ago

          Continue to downvoted but also fight back for Biden. Start posting some positive articles and listing his policies and accomplishments. Better yet, sign up to volunteer for the Biden campaign. Phone calls, texts, canvassing, etc. I tried to find the volunteer sign up on Biden’s website but I don’t see one though so maybe he doesn’t care about volunteers.

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            As I rule I don’t post because I get too sucked into it instead of, you know, being a good dad lol. Yes I also have not found a Biden volunteer option besides cold calling, so I walk for my state rep in my down time instead.