• voidMainVoid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Biden has to earn my vote, just like every other candidate. If you want me to vote for Biden, convince me. What do you like about his platform? Can you convince me to vote for Biden without bringing up Trump?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Can you convince me to vote for Biden without bringing up Trump?

      What would be the point in that when Trump is the only other candidate who has a chance of winning? The rational thing to do is to compare and contrast them.

      If you’re not going to vote for either of them, you might as well not vote at all. You’re not going to have an effect. Decades of people voting third party have not gotten any third party anywhere. Not even when Ross Perot tried it and he actually had a decent chance.

    • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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      11 months ago

      That doesn’t make any sense. You’re basically saying that you refuse to look at a suite of potential consequences of your vote. That’s not responsible at all.