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I feel bad about this and I’d like to make it up to you.
If you tell me your favorite candidate I promise to stay home on election day to cast a vote for them.
I think I speak for most people when I say that I’m a good representative of the general population.
I feel bad about this and I’d like to make it up to you.
If you tell me your favorite candidate I promise to stay home on election day to cast a vote for them.
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Doesn’t that seem strange to you?
It doesn’t seem strange at all. I have never once heard someone suggest that staying home is a vote for Biden, but it’s pretty well agreed upon that not voting is a vote for Trump.
…so Trump should win in a landslide, right? Yet he lost once. This seems like a glaring error in the idea that a protest vote is a vote for Trump.
Only if you believe that election wasn’t stolen.
That doesn’t make any sense. The idea that staying home could be a vote for Biden seems pretty silly on its face. If that were true, there wouldn’t be any point in going out to vote for him, because the majority (or at least a plurality) of the country stays home regardless. He’d win in a landslide.
Mathematician here, I can answer this. Equivalence relations are symmetric, so if staying home is a vote for Trump then showing up to vote for Trump is the same as staying home on election day.
I don’t think even that’s true. I think any potential consequences this story making the news could possibly incite have already been set in motion from what’s already been in the news the past few months. They won’t take any additional hit from one more thing added to the pile, but this being in the news will make activists think twice about risking their lives to provide aid.
I think what the number 44 specifically would look like was probably way outside the radar of whoever designed that font. Yeah, it looks similar, but even noticing that I still really wouldn’t have assumed that someone wearing intends it as a nazi symbol. Is there really a need to announce a ban and solidify that it will be one? Just change the damn font going forward. Are they going to ban 88 too?
I’m skeptical this was actually taken out of context. Trump had an interview about two years ago where he leveled this exact accusation against Putin. I really recommend watching this short clip for context, it’s still hard to believe most Americans aren’t aware of what was said here.
This is a disgustingly cynical interpretation and I really wish it wasn’t realistic.
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A vote not cast is a vote for Aaron Bushnell.
This sounds a lot more productive than election day usually ends up. Thanks for making this election season inspiring.