MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoLetters to the Editor: Your 'protest vote' for Jill Stein is really a vote for Donald Trumpwww.latimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square378fedilinkarrow-up1726arrow-down1105
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minus-squarepumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down10·5 days agoNot voting indirectly also is a vote for Trump.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·5 days agoNot voting isn’t a protest either. Disrupting the voting? That would be a protest. But the Greens and Stein don’t have the balls for that.
minus-squarePeggyLouBaldwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down15·5 days agoif that were true, you could prove it. there is no world in which non votes are counted for Trump
minus-squarepumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down3·5 days ago indirectly Say there are 9 voters. Four vote for Trump. Five heavily disagree with Trump (more than Trump’s four supporters). Three of them vote for Harris, two refuse to vote. Then these two people helped Trump since he’s winning now. It works exactly the same on a much larger scale.
minus-squarePeggyLouBaldwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down13·edit-25 days agoThe only votes that help a candidate are votes for that candidate. A non-vote doesn’t help any candidate.
minus-squareSocialist Mormon Satanist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down10·5 days agoGood point!
Not voting indirectly also is a vote for Trump.
Not voting isn’t a protest either. Disrupting the voting? That would be a protest. But the Greens and Stein don’t have the balls for that.
no, it’s not
Yes, it is
if that were true, you could prove it. there is no world in which non votes are counted for Trump
Say there are 9 voters. Four vote for Trump. Five heavily disagree with Trump (more than Trump’s four supporters). Three of them vote for Harris, two refuse to vote. Then these two people helped Trump since he’s winning now.
It works exactly the same on a much larger scale.
The only votes that help a candidate are votes for that candidate. A non-vote doesn’t help any candidate.
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Good point!