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    2 days ago

    Name one moment in history where abstaining from the bare mimimim to avoid catastrophic consequences results in a net gain.

    Name a point where I said abstaining from voting was good. My point wasn’t that protest voting was good. It was that you could make the exact opposite point (with a lot fewer words) using your exact logic. Which means it’s not a good point.

    I ask this because you’re trying to make this party thing where I’d title paring [you mean “try paying,” maybe?] attention and reading for context- you’ll see clearly that It’s an ACTION thing.

    Again, fine, let’s make it an action thing. If the protest voters were so necessary to Harris’ election, why didn’t she take any actions to win them over? That was incredibly irresponsible of her.

    Are you beginning to see how all your arguments can be flipped just as easily to place the blame on the candidate instead of the voters? Do you think maybe that’s because, even though you’ve convinced yourself that what your saying is cold, hard logic, your actually just screaming your opinions at people?

    For the record, I voted for Harris out of harm reduction, and I wish she’d won. However, I believe that it is a candidates job to win an election, not the voters job to get them elected. If there was a significant contingent of voters withholding their vote, I think that candidate must have been doing a shitty job.

    Interesting that you went to progressives so quickly though. Especially since I never even mentioned the word.

    That says a LOT.

    Yeah, it says I saw more than 2 minutes of political coverage in 2024, so I knew that Harris wasn’t getting criticism for being too progressive. Grow up.

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        16 hours ago

        Wow. So witty and insightful. And it only took you 24 hours to come up with it. Amazing.

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            8 hours ago

            I guess I should have actually been more encouraging; the first comment, it took you more than 200 words to say nothing. This time, you did it in one. That’s a huge improvement! Good job!

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              4 hours ago

              Isn’t there some other comment out there that also has nothing at all to do with you that you can beat to death? Or is it too much effort for you to keep getting on and off of that high horse of yours??

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                3 hours ago

                LOL, you waited a full 24 hours to reply, “Yawn.” If you weren’t so thirsty for getting the last word in, we wouldn’t be talking right now.

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                    1 hour ago

                    LOL, he just told me that he was too busy with his life to waste time on a, “troll” like me. I guess he meant he was too busy arguing with you.

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                  2 hours ago

                  Contrary to the world that trolls live in, other people outside of their little bubble have lives.

                  This means that unlike them, I’m too busy doing shit to be wasting the time it takes to impatiently wait for someone to respond to me so that I can seethe some nonsense in their direction in order to feel validated.

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                    1 hour ago

                    LOL, I would believe that if you ignored me and got on with your life instead of coming back a day later to write, “yawn,” then try to keep arguing.