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[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

Only an insane person or an idiot would vote for someone with no chance of winning rather than for the candidate who will do the least harm.

So you’re saying all these Muslim voters are either insane or idiots for making their own choice? That doesn’t sound very respectful.

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (9 children)

If they vote third party then yes, I do think they're idiots or insane people. But I also have faith they'll make the right decision when election day finally comes.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (8 children)

If they vote third party then yes, I do think they’re idiots or insane people.

Wow, alright then. Gee, I can’t imagine why anyone on the fence wouldn’t be racing to join the Democrats. I mean, with such welcoming, open-minded attitudes like yours, who wouldn’t want to? Lmao.

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not a Democrat, I'm just planning to vote for one. Because I'm not a fucking idiot.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So everyone who isn't voting for Harris is "a fucking idiot"? Wow. Ok, then. lmao

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Assuming you've paid any attention at all to the last 8 years of American politics, then yeah, not voting for Harris is fucking idiotic.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

then yeah, not voting for Harris is fucking idiotic.

So you think half of the United States is idiotic. Wow. Ok, then.

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Thinking Trump voters are idiots isn't exactly a hot take.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.world -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't exactly rising above and being the better side either.

I'm not a Trump voter, so I don't care. But calling half of the country idiots doesn't exactly warm people up to your cause.

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sitting on our hands and trying to "rise above" is what got us Trump in the first place. Remember "they go low, we go high?"

Anyway, Trump voters have already made up their minds and that's completely obvious to anyone paying on ounce of attention to American politics. So either you're being willfully ignorant or intentionally obtuse in an attempt to wear people down — which seems much more likely given the fact that all of your posts are filled with threads of you relentlessly arguing with people.

Either way, you're clearly not here to argue in good faith, so I'm done responding.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago

so I’m done responding.

Good. Because you are clearly not here to argue in good faith.

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