If you can’t see how practical decision making works
You mean like the people in blue states who know their electoral vote is going to be blue no matter what? Or the people in deep red states who know it won’t be blue even if every Democratic voter in an adjacent state came over and voted blue? Even though it literally wasn’t possible for them to change the election outcome no matter how they voted?
Is that the kind of practical decision making we’re talking about?
Because that sure sounds like voting as a performative religious rite, and that shit is stupid. People in solid red states* were never going to win blue electoral votes, anyone insisting otherwise literally doesn’t understand how presidential elections work in the US. Same for anyone who thinks some leftist in New York was putting America in peril by voting third party.
* Except Nebraska, which splits its votes based on district rather than whole state only.
You’ve got options. You can vote swap, you can move, or sure you can bemoan the system, but let’s be real:
This is totally in no way what you or the other guy are arguing above. It would even be relevant if we werent such an obvious attempt at an out from the discussion.
The people no voting are not doing it as a fight against the electoral voting system. It’s smug ass, holier than thou, if I can’t vote for the perfect candidate I’ll take my ball and go home and trump (or whatever authoritarian may show up here or in any other country) isnt my fault.
Yeah, sometimes voting a performative ritual. If you show up and tell us how you justify not voting against tyranny when it’s got any chance of being the alternative to people getting shot and you still look like an asshat.
You mean like the people in blue states who know their electoral vote is going to be blue no matter what? Or the people in deep red states who know it won’t be blue even if every Democratic voter in an adjacent state came over and voted blue? Even though it literally wasn’t possible for them to change the election outcome no matter how they voted?
Is that the kind of practical decision making we’re talking about?
Because that sure sounds like voting as a performative religious rite, and that shit is stupid. People in solid red states* were never going to win blue electoral votes, anyone insisting otherwise literally doesn’t understand how presidential elections work in the US. Same for anyone who thinks some leftist in New York was putting America in peril by voting third party.
* Except Nebraska, which splits its votes based on district rather than whole state only.
You’ve got options. You can vote swap, you can move, or sure you can bemoan the system, but let’s be real:
This is totally in no way what you or the other guy are arguing above. It would even be relevant if we werent such an obvious attempt at an out from the discussion.
The people no voting are not doing it as a fight against the electoral voting system. It’s smug ass, holier than thou, if I can’t vote for the perfect candidate I’ll take my ball and go home and trump (or whatever authoritarian may show up here or in any other country) isnt my fault.
Yeah, sometimes voting a performative ritual. If you show up and tell us how you justify not voting against tyranny when it’s got any chance of being the alternative to people getting shot and you still look like an asshat.