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nah, you just listened to whatever your favorite news source was and parroted it without any concern of actual bias or whether it was people going to thiird party voters. You're just echoing what you want to hear.
What? Do you think election data varies (significantly) based on what news source you obtain the data from? Your Blue MAGA cognitive dissonance is showing lmao, you're just saying things that don't even make sense.
Sure thing: as a leftist, I value education. I can help you understand basic reading comprehension as well as basic math. We're in this together!
Let's review the conversation to help you grasp the language used here more effectively:
Hopefully this elucidates for you how this conversation was based neither in gas-lighting nor undiagnosed, unspecified pathologies, but indeed, your own stubborn refusal to accept basic math. Praxis be with you!
First off, let's make a little correction to your accusations. I didn't like Harris, but Harris vs Trump was no contest. First Past the Post isn't a three-horse race. And I'd rather have seen her get and and get beat down in protests than motions to the entire US whatever the fuck we have going on here.
I didn't say that, you did. The popular vote difference after your math was 0.09% Which is far below your position that it was no where near enough. That tells me you just looked at the math instead of just following your echo chamber now. That .09% is an error bar for lost mail.
That statement is at the very least misleading and at the most bait. The Election was won in purple (or blue-border, if you will) states due to a surge in red-area turnout and a dearth of blue-area turnout. Those red votes didn't come from blue or independent; those blue votes didn't go to or come from independent. The popular vote was exceedingly close as the 'math' you provided shows. And due to years of facism taking foot, quite a number of those electoral college seats are strongly biased.
No, the truth of the matter is people like you ranting that an A/B race with no C option caused further disenfranchisement on the blue side, enough to let the right walk in and take it over, and I can't quite decide if the far left were actually ignorant enough to help the right, or extra vocal people like yourself were outright purchased by the right to ensure their win.
Actually my position was that "it was not enough". We weren't playing "near" or "approximately" enough. Also, go ahead and do the electoral college now and get back to me.
Anyway, leftists are apparently such a powerful segment of the electorate that you blame us for Democrats losing. You know what that’s called in politics? Leverage. We can make you lose, according to your own narrative. Guess you better start listening to our demands unless you want to keep losing. We’re in charge, after all. You just said so.