• callouscomic@lemmy.zip
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    23 hours ago

    Some live in states where the vote literally would not have changed anything.

    You’re also arguing a negative to disprove. The statement implies more people voting would have had an alternative outcome, and that cannot be proven/disproven.

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      20 hours ago

      Votes say something, even if they don’t tip the state. They’re counted and the total is very much part of the election - whether popular vote was won is a “mandate.”

      More importantly a lot of folks who voted “against Israel” (Kamala, who they seem to believe is responsible for 70 years of foreign policy) then snubbed Dems down the rest of the ballot too, and those races are important.

      Splitting our vote over a war that’s been going on for millennia was exactly what the right wing wanted.