It didn't, but predicting future votes doesn't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to choose the statistically likely strategy, right?
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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
I don't usually vote because the US isn't a democracy, but when I do it's for the party or person that most closely represents my very fringe ideals. As a result, I've never supported a winning candidate.
sep 1, 2025, 3:33 pm • 4 0 • view
Not voting won't topple the government. Why not vote for the best option, given that one will win? Is the hope that they'll notice your nonparticipation and try to attract you?
sep 1, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Your best option is evil. That's why. You don't need any other reason.
sep 1, 2025, 3:38 pm • 6 0 • view
Everything is evil, no? Every society that has ever existed has had its cruelties. That doesn't mean it doesn't matter/we just let it happen, but it does mean we have to concretely minimize them.
sep 1, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
You're not minimizing evil by voting Dem or Rep. You're enabling monsters.
sep 1, 2025, 3:43 pm • 3 0 • view
Here's the thing: not voting is not disabling them. They don't need quorum to form a government. It's symbolic.
sep 1, 2025, 3:45 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