Another day, another news article on how Trump turned out to be SO MUCH WORSE

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As I said in another thread elsewhere on the same subject:
The Protest Vote Paradox™
As we’ve all read time after time in the months leading up to the election, the Protest Vote™ simply states states that:
“We refuse to vote against a Tyrant-Felon in order to send a clear and concise message that we will not stand for [roll D20 for random popular single issue], and alongside our refusal to vote against the Tyrant-Felon, is a collective hope that the aforementioned clear and concise message- if ignored, is received under unmitigated duress!”
-Cut to Tyrant-Felon’s win, and the aftermath:
Whether observed or not, the behavior of the Protest Voter will attempt to achieve the following:
\ • Obnoxiously tell everyone: “We told you all what would happen!”
\ • Onnoxiously claim there is: “No way protest voting could cause trump to win.”
As both of these options cannot simultaneously be true in the same reality without breaking important time-space things that we would probably prefer not be broken- we are left with only a few logical conclusions:
Protest voters have no idea what they’re talking about.
Protest voters don’t understand the concept of hypocrisy.
Protest voters have somehow learned to defy reality and become exempt from the concept of paradoxes, thus creating an entirely new study of theoretical science, known as Bulletproof Symbiotic Hypocrisy Theory, or BLsHt.
Something, something, something Ted Talk.
- Protest voters fell for a propaganda campaign (maybe by the republicans, maybe by Russia or China trying to destabilise the USA).
  
  Occam's razor that versus the campaign was SO POORLY RAN that it didn't inspire people to vote against a literal dictator.
  
  all of the above, plus perhaps iran, dprk...
- As both of these options cannot simultaneously be true
  They absolutely can. Protest voters not voting don't encompass every democrat vote lost, there are simply many unconvinced people who became apathetic and didn't vote despite having nothing to do with protest voters, with the latter being a minority. Stop your logical fallacies based on false premises.
  
  So, you’re claiming that the protest both worked to help elect trump, and simultaneously didn’t work to help elect trump…..
  Gotcha.
  
  I'm claiming that protest voting wasn't a significant factor in trump being elected, unlike democrats running on having the, I quote, "most lethal army in the world" during an ongoing genocide, bringing the Cheney, and a myriad of other problems. The dems only have themselves to blame for being incapable of offering a better, more desirable option than Donald J fucking Trump
  
  Sooooooo…. All the people saying “you should have listened to us!” and, “We told you this would happen!”
  Liars?
  Because a LOT of you seem to think that your little protest was a clear message sent and received.
  
  All the people saying “you should have listened to us!” and, “We told you this would happen!”
  Liars?
  Not liars, just unaware that, outwards (i.e. internationally), there is no difference in policy between democrats and republicans. Now, what are you gonna do, bash to the left of you (the ones who actually organise to fight against fascism), or join us?
  
  Okay, so-
  It DID work and you all successfully got trump elected?
  You’re kind of making my point for me here. Pick a lane and stick with it. Either your protest was effective and you take credit for where we are now, or it was a waste of time and effort.

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