Pretend you’re a Republican politician that wants to enact project 2025 which is unpopular with your constituents. Does the guy leading the charge winning the popular vote give you more or less plausible deniability when it comes to your next campaign and you’re trying to distance yourself from it? How can’t you see “he won the popular vote” being a great excuse for them on every level to support him? And the opposition has to excuse not supporting the “popular” platform. If you’re trying to rationalize not voting as it not mattering just stop, you fucked up but it’s ok, don’t let the cognitive dissonance help them
If you’re trying to rationalize not voting as it not mattering just stop, you fucked up but it’s ok, don’t let the cognitive dissonance help them
I watched Bush get elected while losing the popular vote and he invaded two countries. You are welcome to think that Trump losing the popular vote would be meaningful, I don’t think it matters.
If you’re trying to rationalize not voting as it not mattering just stop, you fucked up but it’s ok, don’t let the cognitive dissonance help them
If you’re trying to sway me with this, just stop you fucked up, but it’s ok.
I watched Bush get elected while losing the popular vote and he invaded two countries
Did I say Dems are good and bad things wouldn’t happen under them? Do you just not understand the concept of degrees of effect? What a disingenuous thing to bring up
If you’re trying to sway me with this, just stop you fucked up, but it’s ok.
What even are you trying to say? You’re indecipherable from satire
do you just not understand the concept of degrees of effect?
I swear Lemmy has some of the dumbest people on the internet. Do you have the faintest idea what the point of this entire post and thread is? Have you heard of harm reduction? I just can’t engage with people this dumb anymore. Good luck figuring it out
Pretend you’re a Republican politician that wants to enact project 2025 which is unpopular with your constituents. Does the guy leading the charge winning the popular vote give you more or less plausible deniability when it comes to your next campaign and you’re trying to distance yourself from it? How can’t you see “he won the popular vote” being a great excuse for them on every level to support him? And the opposition has to excuse not supporting the “popular” platform. If you’re trying to rationalize not voting as it not mattering just stop, you fucked up but it’s ok, don’t let the cognitive dissonance help them
I watched Bush get elected while losing the popular vote and he invaded two countries. You are welcome to think that Trump losing the popular vote would be meaningful, I don’t think it matters.
If you’re trying to sway me with this, just stop you fucked up, but it’s ok.
Did I say Dems are good and bad things wouldn’t happen under them? Do you just not understand the concept of degrees of effect? What a disingenuous thing to bring up
What even are you trying to say? You’re indecipherable from satire
Bush was a republican, I was providing an example of how little ‘winning’ the popular vote matters at all.
I was mocking your feigned concern, I did it by quoting back what you just said to me: “just stop you fucked up, but it’s ok.”
No you weren’t. Again, do you just not understand the concept of degrees of effect? That’s the entire point that you’re ignoring.
And I’m very concerned about you. It is not feigned
to which you reply
How… does that not demonstrate that the popular vote doesn’t matter?
I swear Lemmy has some of the dumbest people on the internet. Do you have the faintest idea what the point of this entire post and thread is? Have you heard of harm reduction? I just can’t engage with people this dumb anymore. Good luck figuring it out
I sincerely don’t think that getting a slightly narrower margin would make an impact in how these people behave.
Why, am I suspicious?