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    8 months ago

    how would it even be a contest

    Because there are swaths of selfish people out there.

    Sounds like you might be one of them.

    The strategy is pretty obviously to vote and advocate against the worse option.

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      8 months ago

      The strategy is pretty obviously to vote and advocate against the worse option.

      That is just voting and having an opinion, not really a strategy. What is the incumbent campaign’s strategy for reelection? Are they just hoping that enough voters will see it your way (I presume), in spite of supporting the genocide as well as the policies that more or less haven’t changed since the previous administration?

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        8 months ago

        That is just voting and having an opinion

        Anyone whose “opinion” is that Trump would be fine, is to be shamed. Plain and simple.

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          8 months ago

          So then the strategy is to shame anyone who isn’t fervently anti-Trump into changing their mind? How is that supposed to work given the Trump era policies that are still in place or the incumbent administration’s material and rhetorical support for the Israeli’s genocidal persecution of the Palestinians? If people want to avoid shame, then not voting for either of the contenders, or at all, seems like the best move for them.

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                8 months ago

                You’ve got it twisted. You aren’t voting strategically. That has nothing to do with campaign strategy.

                Keep up.

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                  8 months ago

                  What on Earth is “voting strategically” supposed to mean individual voters in US Presidential elections? Arriving at polling places early? Voting by mail? Or do you mean something illicit like voting early and often?

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                    8 months ago

                    It means you don’t vote for what you “want”, it means you vote for the best possible outcome. Again, of which there are 2 and of which 1 is worse.

                    You cannot seriously be this dense.