Like this means anything other than they are abject failures in engaging new voters
At a certain point they're gonna overplay their hand and people (not libs obviously but people capable of complex thought) are going to completely write off anybody putting out endless articles that boil down to "don't support genocide? Here's why you're worse than people who do!"
A Biden for Trump is a vote for vote. The more you Trump the less you vote.
I will vote for Biden once for each of the beheaded babies he saw, so I will vote for him zero times
Don't think you need a PhD in statistics to understand that you can't reverse causality like this
Being a liberal causes you to vote =/= voting causes you to be a liberal
he's just making the descriptive observation, not making a prescriptive claim, right?
If the average person read “the more basketballs you shoot, the more you are an NBA player” I think many would read it as a causal relationship that operates at the individual level.
I mean strictly speaking it’s not incorrect, but I just know this author wants to scare people into voting as if it affects their political views.
When Marx said, ”the human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of social relations,” I think it’s coming from a similar standpoint of incommensurability between aggregates and individuals. There may be an “average voter” as a statistical object, but it does not exist as a real individual.
i appreciate the comment. i don't know how i interpreted your comment, or how i ended up addressing it.
i think i agree with what you're saying, i'm surprised that the author would be attached to the headline, which is weirdly normatively charged, for what i assume is now a not unsurprising observation that recently lower turnout elections have swung the Dems way.
Am I supposed to be voting more than once?
Also I am voting, for Afroman
Yes, you may vote multiple times. You can not vote for Biden which is a vote for Trump, as many times as you wish.
just tell libs that every time they vote for biden you'll vote for trump three times
If you don't want Trump to win, vote for Afroman. A vote for Biden is a vote for Trump.
Well according to libs not voting for Biden is a vote for Trump.
Which means not voting for Trump is also a vote for Biden.
Which means if you don't vote for either of them you actually voted twice.
Which means you're half as likely to support Trump as the liberals who just voted ONCE by simply voting for Biden.
I'm starting to think their logic may be flawed here.
Well duh. You’re not committing voter fraud for Biden this year? And you call yourself a communist? Comrade Biden would be disappointed.
so the more you vote the more you back biden, so by voting for trump you are actually voting for biden more than you are voting for trump
Amazed how that was swept under the rug by liberals when Bernie would get crucified for using the word “black.”
I had always planned on voting, just not for Biden. I'll be voting PSL if they're on my ballot, and writing in some joke about my balls or asshole if they aren't.
I don't exactly get what's surprising about the "my optics are flinging poop" guy pulling more nonvoters than the bloodless donor class appeaser.
Also Dems should be fucking scared how strongly their success with PoC voters is tied to these people being regulars at the polls. The "has voted 0-2 times" set includes a ton of young people who haven't been of voting age for 12 years, and these are overrepresented among nonwhite demographics.
Yeah the data here for Hispanics should be a giant alarm going off for the party.
Ah but by not voting for Trump, I'm voting for Biden. In fact, I'm not voting every single day. You're welcome liberals, you mask-off fascist ghouls.
Explains why Trump got 0 votes in 2016. After all, if he got any votes it would feedback and he would have gotten INT_MAX instead.
so the democratic party is now the party that benefits most from low voter turnout - how democratic
Well duh, most Republicans don't give a shit about local politics because they already hold most of those seats because they overwhelmingly outnumber Democrats outside of cities
This is like looking at the sea and going "
The more time you spend in the water, the more likely you like to swim"okay, so as someone with a liberal MA in 4d critical voting theory, what this essentially means is that anyone who wants four more years of biden should stay home in november so that biden will have more support among non voters. that way, the power of not voting shifts so that not voting for trump becomes a vote for biden, and votes that are not cast in the physical space are not bound be the limitations of the ballot-box, meaning that you can vote for biden several times by not voting for trump
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