• LePoisson@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Hey you can elect this person that’ll slap you or this person that’ll stab you in the face.

    Oh well the slapping is so bad we should just not choose either and give the win to face stabby candidate. That’s the dumbass “logic” that got us here.

    I mean, I fully expect it was also mostly a foreign psyop to steer votes toward Trump or at least generate apathy and keep votes from going to Kamala (same outcome more or less). Mostly because it’s such a dumb premise of why you wouldn’t vote for Harris and just sit out the election. So I can’t imagine it was truly widespread and I think that’s also why it’s crickets now that the election is over and Russia’s orange gremlin candidate for president of the USA won.

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      6 hours ago

      The actual choice:

      A) Stabs you in the heart

      B) Stabs you in the lung

      C) No stabbing, picks wildflowers for you

      And you guys go, “C isn’t viable! At least you’re less likely to die if you get stabbed in the lung - you have an entire hour to get to the hospital!”

      Bro, C is right there. Was there the whole time. Why the fuck would we, AS A POPULATION, choose anything but the best option.

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        49% of the country is voting for A

        49% of the country is voting for B

        2% of the country is voting C

        Idunno guys, I just feel like if we work really hard to siphon votes away from B, we can make it work

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        5 hours ago

        No, C is not “right there” when our electoral politics work the way they do. That’s a huge strawman argument.

        The reality is there were two choices, one clearly better for Palestinians.

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          A strawman argument is when they misrepresent something you’re saying, not when you think they’re wrong about how electoral politics work.

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            Yes, they took my argument and created a false third choice that was never part of the argument. Then said to choose that.

            That’s misrepresenting what I said to have that third choice.

            Regardless we’re getting very pedantic here and I’m not really disagreeing with you if that matters to you.

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          “Work the way they do”. Oh, OK. If that’s not how electoral politics work!

      • UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works
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        By your logic, choices A through Z all have equal odds of winning.

        They don’t.

        I can go into a full explanation about how you’re wrong and you are also to blame for this happening, but I won’t cause were so far past the tipping point there no reason to explain it to you anymore. Just know most everyone here knows you’re either ignorant or dumb. The rest of us know you’re both

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          The odds of winning, for the candidate that secures a majority of EC votes, is exactly 100% (so long as that process is followed). The determining factor of that is the voting decisions of the population. That is not a function you can describe only in probabilistic terms. By all means, let’s hear your broken explanation filled with omissions and logical errors.

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        There are no wildflowers on the road to hell, but it is paved with good intentions.

        C is right there only if you’re naive enougn to believe it.

        Most people don’t want war. Yet they will go to war, each side convinced in their own self-righteousness. That is the human condition. Picking wildflowers isn’t going to stop the Nazi boot or anything else for that matter. Another way to think about it - Charlie Chaplin’s messages in the 1930s were great, full of hope, and reached a lot of people. But that was nowhere near what was needed. Tens of millions had to die. It’s not gonna be any different this time around, Chaplin or no Chaplin.

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          It’s not the “human condition”. All of these things are products of cultural practices and belief systems. Not all societies wage war. Not all societies put mass murderers in control. You cannot be so careless with your logic and hope to ever arrive at a correct conclusion.