The last thing I said in this subthread is repeating back what someone else said for clarification. You're assuming hostility and it's making you paranoid.
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Nobody here is paranoid.
sep 1, 2025, 2:52 pm • 3 0 • view
That's quite a broad assertion. I guess if they're not paranoid, they're just consciously being super unpleasant to anyone who doesn't instantly agree with them about everything? For...reasons?
sep 1, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
i’m assuming hostility because you’re asking what we should call people who vote according to their beliefs even when their beliefs ‘don’t matter at all’
sep 1, 2025, 2:59 pm • 4 0 • view
If they vote (or don't) such that they had no effect, then it didn't matter, did it? I'm not saying their beliefs don't matter in some emotional sense.
sep 1, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
if you lose every swing state did your democrat vote matter or not
sep 1, 2025, 3:09 pm • 5 0 • view
It didn't, but predicting future votes doesn't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to choose the statistically likely strategy, right?
sep 1, 2025, 3:25 pm • 0 0 • view
But hindsight wasn't required. You were told what would happen. Democrats doubled down on the mistakes of past elections and very predictably lost.
sep 1, 2025, 3:31 pm • 2 0 • view
i have successfully predicted every presidential election of my adult lifetime based on who had an excited voterbase and who didn’t. it’s actually super easy
sep 1, 2025, 3:29 pm • 3 0 • view
No. Next question.
sep 1, 2025, 3:28 pm • 4 0 • view
Weird. I can't imagine having a voting strategy, and not voting to be represented.
sep 1, 2025, 3:26 pm • 3 0 • view
You're voting to produce an outcome for real, concretely suffering people, so I think of it as strategic. I think I understand that you see it as an act of speech or communication, and it does also do that of course.
sep 1, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
But you're voting in a way that has contributed to their suffering for several consecutive elections. Why do you keep expecting a different result?
sep 1, 2025, 3:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Maybe think more, cause that ain't it. If I'm voting it's for someone who actually represents me, it isn't voting to win.
sep 1, 2025, 3:29 pm • 2 0 • view
No one represents me perfectly. How do you choose? Should there be 300M candidates? 5?
sep 1, 2025, 3:30 pm • 0 0 • view
No it's more like you go into a Nazi casino and you say that you have a system for blackjack other than counting cards that's just as effective
sep 1, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Your analogy has lost me but I get the gist
sep 1, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Nazis will set you up with some complimentary chips and then sit you down at their casino and if you delude yourself into choosing the statistically most likely way to win they are still going to win in the end because it's their casino
sep 1, 2025, 7:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Liberals are unpleasant people, their lacking morality makes many of us sick to our stomachs. They expect us to sacrifice others to save them, and that's disgusting behavior.
sep 1, 2025, 2:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Sure, but that doesn't mean that instantly flipping out over an abstract conceptual conversation is reasonable (not saying you're doing that)
sep 1, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Liberals aren't reasonable people, or they wouldn't ask us to sacrifice immigrants, trans people and the homeless to save liberal's illusion of security.
sep 1, 2025, 3:01 pm • 3 0 • view
...and they wouldn't keep insisting that doing so was a "winning strategy" after they've lost the White House, both chambers of Congress, and most State Houses and Governorships. They're delusional
sep 1, 2025, 3:04 pm • 3 0 • view