Oddbean new post about login | logout Unless the election is decided by your vote, then you did just as little as me. I'll cheer his freedom as much as I want to.
Actually I did 100% more than you champ.
If you’re not voting in a swing state, then no, 100% you didn’t chief.
I am in a swing state buddy
Nice, you do have a vote. Carry on.
ELI5, because from where I sit your action made no impact whatsoever. Aside from voting, we refer to actions like that as completely pointless.
This isn’t hard. You did 0% (not voting) I did 100% (voting). Doing nothing is not the same as doing something.
Your action made no impact on the world. In what sense is that actually doing something? If the world is going to be exactly the same regardless of the action you take, then there was no point in taking it and you deserve no credit for the outcome. That you have to vote to be entitled to an opinion is some of the lowest IQ state propaganda out there.
Actually my action does have an impact since I am in a battleground state and a handful of states like mine will decide the outcome of the election. The impact is marginal sure, but I said that in the original post. I’m doing a “small” thing to help Ross.
Trump won in 2016 by about 70k votes, iirc, and that was one of the tightest elections ever. No election has ever been decided by a single vote in American history. There are thousands of elections every year. No single vote has ever or will ever matter. You're just LARPing, which you're perfectly entitled to do, but don't confuse it with doing something meaningful.
If the 70,000 people were people who thought like you then he wouldn’t have won. Every one of those 70k votes mattered.
No, 69997 of them could have just stayed home. That's the opposite of mattering.
I’m done with this autistic argument. See you around.
Happy LARPing
lol
You're deluded. Whatever you think you did, you are a hypocrite for speaking like this.
How
First, by trying to bludgeon people into voting - or bludgeon people into anything. Second, by belittling someone after judging them and yourself and deciding you're superior. There is no superior. Respect people's opinions and decisions.
1. Free speech and persuasion are part of a free market. I find it hard to imagine that anyone is “bludgeoned” by my rhetoric. 2. I didn’t belittle anyone. 3. Some opinions are superior to others. Not everything is equal.
Ironic. Why even vote, then? If you're so sure you're correct, then from your perspective it would be correct to use force in the political process. So do it. And yes, you belittled that guy, and I see you belittling others I'm this thread. Well, have at it, we have free speech here. But don't get offended if someone tells you you're a hypocrite.