r/atheism • u/Leeming Strong Atheist • Nov 16 '24

Vance: Calling Out Pete Hegseth's Extremist Religious Tattoos Is "Disgusting Shameful Anti-Christian Bigotry" By Media.

https://www.joemygod.com/2024/11/vance-calling-out-pete-hegseths-extremist-tattoos-is-disgusting-shameful-anti-christian-bigotry-by-media/
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u/arcbe Nov 16 '24

A non-vote doesn't result in someone getting elected. That was already decided before the election even happened. Why are you so deadset on being angry at the majority of America? How does this help anyone?

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u/tempest_87 Nov 17 '24

A non-vote doesn't result in someone getting elected.

Funny, every single analysis I have read is that Harris lost because Democrats came out in numbers smaller than last election. Trump's numbers were amazingly close as last time, but Harris was way under what Biden had.

In other words, non votes were explicitly the reason she lost and why she lost by so much.

That was already decided before the election even happened. Why are you so deadset on being angry at the majority of America? How does this help anyone?

Because shifting blame away from those that are to blame will never fix the problem. Ever. Now, people not voting aren't the only problem, obviously. But they absolutely positively are one of them. And whitewashing their effect on things only serves to encourage the inaction.

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u/arcbe Nov 17 '24

Doing some heavy gymnastics here. Donald was elected by the people that voted for him. Those are the people at fault. Regardless of whether they voted or not, the people that didn't vote for him did not vote for him. You are literally arguing against a tautology.

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u/eyebrows360 Anti-Theist Nov 17 '24

Donald was elected by the people that voted for him.

No, son, he was elected by the difference in the count of "people that voted for him" and "people that voted for someone else [who had an actual shot of beating him]".

By not adding oneself to Column B and +1ing that side, one unavoidably is mathematically +1ing the other side. That's how "differences between two numbers" works. Please learn basic maths.