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Unfortunately this assumes a reasonable alternative existed. A lot people felt that one didn’t which is one of the reasons why every time Trump ran he received more votes than the time before.

I didn’t vote for Trump, ever. However, I couldn’t vote against him these last three presidential runs either.

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I voted third party. But ultimately a presidential vote is worth very little compared to actually putting in the work in one's community. Too many people think if they vote once every four years they've done their civic duty and can return to branch or whatever.

To vote third-party in our system is to implicitly vote for the winner... while you think yourself clever for your invisible, meaningless statement.

If I voted for Biden nothing fundamentally changes in 2024. My state already went hard for Biden. No, I did not support the winner.

But I agree, a vote for President is an invisible meaningless statement. At least we can agree there.

Seems to me that it’s not all that “clever” to reinforce the decision to provide an awful candidate from one of the two “winnable” political parties hoping that people will still hold their nose and vote for the lesser of two evils…whichever subjective one that is to you.

Lots of people were asking “where did all our 2020 votes go in 2024?” It’s not so “invisible” when your folks wake up to your stupid shenanigans en masse and walk away.

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