• HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
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    5 months ago

    >Assuming you would have voted for Biden if you only had the two major party options

    that is not a good assumption: I only vote for candidates if I want them to win.

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      5 months ago

      The base assumption here is not that you would actually vote for either one, it’s that when given only two choices, you prefer one or the other. The only way that doesn’t hold is if you truly do not care between the two options and it’s a coin flip. If that is true, then the ‘person you hate most between the two’ still benefits, but it’s a coin flip which one it is so you don’t care.

      If you prefer Biden over Trump, you are helping Trump by not voting for Biden. And vice versa. Even if you would never vote for any major party candidate, that just means you are always helping the major party candidate you hate the most.

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          5 months ago

          I mean…you tell me your political feelings. It’s not about who won, it’s just who you are helping.

          If you hate Trump more than Hillary and you didn’t vote for one of them in 2016, you helped Trump in 2016. If you hate Biden more than Trump and you didn’t vote in 2020 then you helped Biden. But if you hate Trump more than Biden, then you helped Trump in 2020 even though he didn’t win.