• Test_Tickles@lemmynsfw.com
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        6 months ago

        This particular vote is an “A\B” question. No matter what you do A or B will be chosen. All other “choices” will be ignored and will have 0 effect on the outcome. The only thing that matters in this vote is who wins.
        Not voting at all, or even voting for C, both have the exact same results as voting for whoever wins.

        So if you choose not to vote, and Trump wins, then you created the same results as if you had voted for Trump.

        If you wanted to vote against Biden but did not want to vote for Trump then you should have voted in the primaries to defeat Trump before he was the only alternative to Biden. In fact, of you had blocked Trump from being nominated again, Israel would not be doing what they are doing. Israel actively wants Trump in power, so that is why they are doing this now.

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          6 months ago

          Yeah this isn’t even like a complicated idea; I don’t get why people have trouble with it.

          As a practical real world example: in the 2000 election, Bush won Florida by 537 votes. (the exact number is questionable because of the recount and the bullshit that was Bush v. Gore. Which we can and should be very angry about but also doesn’t change the conclusion here).

          97,488 Floridians voted for Ralph Nader.

          Now, I’m gonna assume that people who voted green care about like. The environment. And I’m quite sure that Nader was more progressive on environmental issues than Gore was – Gore would probably have been a boring and relatively centrist democrat. But by voting for Nader over Gore we didn’t get Nader, we got Bush.

          If even 1% of the green voters in Florida had held their noses and voted for the candidate who they maybe didn’t align quite as well with but had an actual shot at winning, we could have had a president who actually recognized climate change as a threat almost a fucking decade before we did,instead of a climate change denier. Would it have fixed everything? No! But we’d be a hell of a lot better off than we are now.