Nobody knows what another person's intents are. People can just disagree honestly, even if we think what they are saying is ridiculous.
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Originally Posted by Lathum
Maybe not supporting him, but if you vote for RFK, etc...and Trump wins you are just as responsible for it as someone who voted for and supports Trump.
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No you aren't. Anyone who wants to be mad at those people, be my guest, but as a matter of basic math and logic this is not the case.
If I vote for Trump, he gets one additional vote. If I vote for Biden, he gets one. If I vote for neither, whether I vote at all or it's a third candidate, neither of them get one.
Trump gets less votes in the third party/abstain scenario. He does not get the same as if I voted for him. In the Trump-Biden comparison, anything other than voting for one of those two is mathematically and definitionally a neutral act.
The contrary opinion requires starting from 'vote for Biden' as a baseline, but that's not what the baseline is. It requires an overt act to make that happen.