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Ooh, I know, my comment was pure unadulterated sarcasm.

I wonder who our representatives will make foot the bill for this one? Surely they won’t just socialize the losses with how well it worked the last dozen times… Right?

You should look up the motte and bailey fallacy.

Respectfully, no I don’t. Because the validity of my claim is not in question because the only relevance it has to my assertion is whether or not I talked to ml folks with that opinion and I’m not digging back through years of DMS to find it for you. So again, take my word for it or don’t. I’m fine if you don’t believe me.

We’ve both wasted enough time and you just litetially called everyone else delusional so that’s a logical stopping point. If you have more I will read it but I will not reply.

I don’t owe you proof of an anecdote. Something clearly felt by the community given the reactions to this post. Again none of this is about you, so you cannot defend it, it if about .ml users in my case and maybe others from everyone else. Regardless you’re asserting that everyone has collective hysteria rather than engaging with the possibility that people hold those opinions.

Your arguments are immaterial to interactions with other people though. You may have a perfectly reasonable position, that’s never what I was talking about and I’m not interested in you moving the goal posts on someone else’s argument.

It’s a liberal position to express that people have argued with me about whether voting makes you culpable or not?

I did not misrepresent your beliefs because I never once tried to say that you hold those beliefs.

It’s just that I offered you the same proof you ordered me, none, which is fine, we are sharing lived experience on social media.

However, It comes off arrogant, almost as if you’re saying “my reality is objectively correct and everyone else’s is delusional unless they take time out of their life to write me a dissertation.”

Believe me or don’t but you need to practice what you preach

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No, thank you, you are very capable of reading through this very low comment post to find them. I’m not going to litigate reality with you.

Every election season like clockwork, just like the debate about trans people in sports.

Yes it is, I have had an argument several times with .ml folks who articulated that voting legitimised the system making you culpable for its shortcomings.

Very common around election season, I think the first time I heard it was actually last midterm in 2022.

Hell there are 3 comments on this post saying don’t vote. There’s no ambiguity they aren’t saying voting isn’t enough, in no uncertain terms they are saying don’t vote.

Is there an argument to be made that the ratcheting mechanisms of FPTP skew the results towards the lesser of two evils? Absolutely, especially at the presidential level.

Where that is less true is the midterms and municipal elections. We’ve seen proof that we can have real progressives like Mamdani and we need even more like Abdul El-Sayed. Progressive policy is popular and any movement needs allies.

I’m not saying don’t protest, I’m not even going to say do it peacefully but voting still has it’s place.

No but it’s a common sentiment from circles on here

Disgusting to watch the US align with Russia. Almost like they elected a Russian puppet.