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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (45 children)

As I said in another thread elsewhere on the same subject a while back:

The Protest Vote Paradox™

As we’ve all read time after time in the months leading up to the election, the Protest Vote™ simply states states that:

“We refuse to vote against a Tyrant-Felon in order to send a clear and concise message that we will not stand for [roll D20 for random popular single issue], and alongside our refusal to vote against the Tyrant-Felon, is a collective hope that the aforementioned clear and concise message- if ignored, is received under unmitigated duress!”

-Cut to Tyrant-Felon’s win, and the aftermath:

Whether observed or not, the behavior of the Protest Voter will attempt to achieve the following:
• Obnoxiously tell everyone: “We told you all what would happen!”
• Onnoxiously claim there is: “No way protest voting could cause trump to win.”

As both of these options cannot simultaneously be true in the same reality without breaking important time-space things that we would probably prefer not be broken- we are left with only a few logical conclusions:

  1. Protest voters have no idea what they’re talking about.
  2. Protest voters don’t understand the concept of hypocrisy.
  3. Protest voters have somehow learned to defy reality and become exempt from the concept of paradoxes, thus creating an entirely new study of theoretical science, known as Bulletproof Symbiotic Hypocrisy Theory, or BLsHt.

Something, something, something Ted Talk.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (44 children)

This is just a long-winded, inverted version of the aphorism about liberals' paradoxical view of progressives; they're a small, niche group, and the Democrats shouldn't try to appease them because they'll just alienate mainstream voters by courting this insignificant block of voters. However, progressives are somehow also a large, powerful cabal that can be blamed for every major Democratic loss.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (13 children)

The enemy is both weak and strong. The progressives are too small to pay attention to their requests, but cost millions of votes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh progressives are definitely weak. But numerous. A simple bare minimum vote would have stopped ALL of this from happening.

But you couldn’t even do that. So yeah.. weak as fuck if you ask me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But you couldn’t even do that. So yeah… weak as fuck if you ask me.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Then you’re clearly not who I’m talking about. I guess it’s either that simple reading comprehension is an issue for you, or you have a white knight complex.

One of the two- but my point remains untouched regardless.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

But you couldn’t even do that.

Then you’re clearly not who I’m talking about.

You used you directed at me, replying to me, twice. That's not confusing, that's you deflecting because you have no argument.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I used “you” directed at you prior to knowing you voted. Did you not take this into consideration, or do you just have a problem with placing things in chronological order? Or is it that you did this intentionally?

Because- it does come off as you white knighting yourself into a discussion that wasn’t even directed at you with the intent to trap me into some little “gotcha” moment.

I’ve seen you pull this shit before. It doesn’t work like you think it does.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Because it doesn’t come off as you white knighting yourself into a discussion that wasn’t even directed at you with the intent to trap me into some little “gotcha” moment.

You literally replied to me saying that.

It's a public fourm, anyone who comments is being added to the conversation. Jesus Christ.

I’ve seen you pull this shit before. It doesn’t work like you think it does.

So is this you at me or a nebulous other meaning "you" that only Rheori has in your personal dictionary?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

LOL!

Wow. You aren’t good at this. Check where in the discussion you decided to reveal that you voted. Was it before, or after that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

"You don't vote."

"Here's proof I voted and that I'm registered to vote for the least bad option."

"Why would you reply that in a public conversation to me? Clearly everyone should ignore the words have meaning and public forums have people able to comment on them."

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Which illustrates my point that your little gotcha failed.

Thanks for playing. I’ll unblock you when enough time has passed that you’d have responded and gotten this out of your system.

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