• jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    The current system (or voter inertia) doesn’t allow you to vote against both.

    false premise.

    One of them will win,

    Yes.

    your only decision is which one you want (or despise less).

    false conclusion.

    If your vote doesn’t threaten their win, then when you vote for neither you’re voting for the winner.

    Man, you’re a mental pretzel. please re-read your statement a few times. think really hard on what you just said. come back when you realize how that statement works both ways and is beautiful nonsense.

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      6 hours ago

      You agreed that either Trump or Harris will win. Your vote can only threaten one of them, by voting for the other or an alternative candidate. Same with not voting, the winner won’t care about your missing vote.

      That means no action you take in the election will harm both candidates, ergo there is no way to vote against both of them.

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        5 hours ago

        That means no action you take in the election will harm both candidates, ergo there is no way to vote against both of them.

        mmmm. does it though? you think the goal is to harm one of their campaigns. its not. the goal is to do two things:

        1. ensure when harris gets into office shes bloodied enough in the deep blue states to know she needs to work with bernie and ideally you know not commit a genocide.
        2. ensure if trump wins that the democrats control both houses.

        you can read my post history. I’ve been very clear on this goal. its the only reason I’m wasting my time atm doing this along with other activities the last 4 months I’d really rather not be wasting my time with. like composing emails to my critters reminding them my vote for them is at risk if the genocide continues.

        What amazes me is individuals like yourself won’t even put an ounce of effort into helping Palestinians. just a few hours a day, lie to a few pollsters, email your critters, maybe vote 3rd party for president if you live in a deep blue state.

        If harris campaign is harmed by this, well I can hardly be blamed. I didn’t chose her policy positions. I certainly wouldn’t have chosen genocide as a platform. but people do weird things. like mentally contorting themselves into a pretzel to support a genocidal candidate when not doing so is much easier. I hope you manage to find your way, but I doubt it. 🤷‍♀️

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            4 hours ago

            yes unfortunately you’re advocating for the 2nd shittest outcome. a flat harris win, when you could be advocating for a squeaker that leaves her position tenuous and her leadership within the dem party weak. please start lieing to your critters, exit polls, etc, and if possible vote against her in deep blue states.