• TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    People who are choosing not to vote for Biden are doing so because of a genocide that is happening NOW. You want to question them on contingent hypothetical real world results of a Trump presidency that may, or may not, happen in the FUTURE.

    You’re trying to scare voters by telling them a dragon 🐉 is outside, when a venomous hydra is already in the room with them.

    You’re concern trolling and “just asking questions,” it reeks of desperation.

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      5 months ago

      People who are choosing not to vote for Biden are doing so because of a genocide that is happening NOW. You want to question them on contingent hypothetical real world results of a Trump presidency that may, or may not, happen in the FUTURE.

      Oh so they can reason about a hypothetical future if they vote third party, but they can’t do so if it’s about a trump presidency? That’s hilarious. Or are you saying they unable reason about a hypothetical future at all?

      Holy shit my man I’m asking folks to tell me what THEY think is going to happen as a consequence of their actions. If their reasoning is so shit that that question shakes them to their core, get good.

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          5 months ago

          I appreciate you defining that, but I don’t see anything that suggests most voters fall under that category - any chance you’d be able to dig that up?

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              5 months ago

              Thanks!

              Do you think retrospective voters use the past to try and inform reasoning about the future?

              IMO there has to be some level of this happening, otherwise retrospective voters would only have an opinion on those that already have served, and would be essentially picking from those who have not served at random.

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                5 months ago

                It’s been a while since I read the study, but I think that was part of it. They used the past to inform opinions about the future.