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

Name one moment in history where abstaining from the bare mimimim to avoid catastrophic consequences results in a net gain.

Name a point where I said abstaining from voting was good. My point wasn't that protest voting was good. It was that you could make the exact opposite point (with a lot fewer words) using your exact logic. Which means it's not a good point.

I ask this because you’re trying to make this party thing where I’d title paring [you mean "try paying," maybe?] attention and reading for context- you’ll see clearly that It’s an ACTION thing.

Again, fine, let's make it an action thing. If the protest voters were so necessary to Harris' election, why didn't she take any actions to win them over? That was incredibly irresponsible of her.

Are you beginning to see how all your arguments can be flipped just as easily to place the blame on the candidate instead of the voters? Do you think maybe that's because, even though you've convinced yourself that what your saying is cold, hard logic, your actually just screaming your opinions at people?

For the record, I voted for Harris out of harm reduction, and I wish she'd won. However, I believe that it is a candidates job to win an election, not the voters job to get them elected. If there was a significant contingent of voters withholding their vote, I think that candidate must have been doing a shitty job.

Interesting that you went to progressives so quickly though. Especially since I never even mentioned the word.

That says a LOT.

Yeah, it says I saw more than 2 minutes of political coverage in 2024, so I knew that Harris wasn't getting criticism for being too progressive. Grow up.