• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Why is it that staying home is a vote for Trump but it isn’t a vote for Biden. Doesn’t that seem strange to you?

    And you’re right, it doesn’t make any sense, and that applies to staying home being a vote for Trump. The plurality of the country stays home, so Trump should win in a landslide, right? Yet he lost once. This seems like a glaring error in the idea that a protest vote is a vote for Trump.

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      6 months ago

      Doesn’t that seem strange to you?

      It doesn’t seem strange at all. I have never once heard someone suggest that staying home is a vote for Biden, but it’s pretty well agreed upon that not voting is a vote for Trump.

      …so Trump should win in a landslide, right? Yet he lost once. This seems like a glaring error in the idea that a protest vote is a vote for Trump.

      Only if you believe that election wasn’t stolen.

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        6 months ago

        I have never once heard someone suggest that staying home is a vote for Biden, but it’s pretty well agreed upon that not voting is a vote for Trump.

        That’s the strange part! Why is staying home a vote for Trump but not a vote for Biden? What makes them different?

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          6 months ago

          Look girl, it’s been a good debate, but I think I’m going to call it here. I’ve been trying to get increasingly more ridiculous and you keep replying like you’re really engaged in this argument and I feel like I have an obligation to help your blood pressure by letting you win the argument before it goes too much further.

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            6 months ago

            I give people the benefit of the doubt until they get nasty, so it’s no trouble to waste some time arguing with a brick wall 🙃

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              6 months ago

              I feel bad about this and I’d like to make it up to you.

              If you tell me your favorite candidate I promise to stay home on election day to cast a vote for them.

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                6 months ago

                I think I’m going to write in Aaron Bushnell.

                They already cast the only vote that matters as far as I’m concerned.

                Whichever génocidaire wins doesn’t really matter. America’s days are numbered.

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                  6 months ago

                  A vote not cast is a vote for Aaron Bushnell.

                  This sounds a lot more productive than election day usually ends up. Thanks for making this election season inspiring.