• voracitude@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Jesus, another one who doesn’t know how to track cause and effect. There sure are a lot of you lil guys, hey! Like Tribbles, but not as cute.

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        Really shows that people weren’t paying attention in Civics class. Zero clue how FPTP and the spoiler effect work.

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      Let’s pretend you have 2 people that decide to not vote for candidate A or candidate B.

      If candidate A has 50 votes and bad polices for Gaza, and candidate B has 51 votes and even worse policies for Gaza, then by sitting out, those two people have effectively allowed the worse option to win.

      It’s just basic arithmetic.

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      What people mean when thwy say those things is: voting for anyone except Harris increases Trump’s chances of winning compared to a Harris vote. This is trivially true.