“We will continue to actively engage in the hard work of direct diplomacy on the ground until we reach a Final Solution.”
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lol what an asinine, short-sighted take that it may be confused with a right-wing wedge-driver.
Congratulations. You're helping the guy who is objectively-worse in every conceivable way, including genocide. Not only has Trump made it abundantly clear he'd be worse for Palestinians, he would also be worse for Ukrainians under genocidal threat, too.
Your blue no matter who strategy has been I place since 2008. As a result, the Democratic party is further right than it's ever been before, and creeping fascism has exploded into running fascism.
This is a direct consequence of your strategy. Blue no matter who results in unaccountable elected officials, because you've positioned yourself to have no other option. They have no requirements of responsiveness to your political positions because they know that you think "this election is too important'.
It's basic game theory and you've cornered yourself into supporting your opponents strategy. By voting blue no matter who you've set up a paradigm where the best case scenario is a slow walk into right wing facism.
If haven't been able to tell, the strategy is obviously not working. Look at how unresponsive Biden has been to voter sentiment in Gaza. He's in complete opposition to his base. As such he faces losing Michigan. The direct cause of this is the confidence that he will not lose voters because you are unwilling to make the difficult choice of withholding your consent. As such he knows he doesn't need to respond to your policy positions, and in doing so, is setting up the conditions for another Trump presidency.
Congratulations, you played yourself.
Okay since you've mentioned game theory let's do some.
For: T = trump wins B = Biden wins
M = Biden is just as bad as Trump N = Trump is much worse than Biden
Then the outcome table looks something like this where positive numbers mean a good outcome
T 0 -1
B 0 +1
Since if they're both bad it doesn't matter who wins, like you're insinuating. But if Trump is worse than Biden then it's obviously better to vote Biden because if Biden wins you get a 0 or a 1, but if Trump wins you get a 0 or a -1.
And also to anyone with eyes, ears or a brain, it's obvious Donald "I'm literally going to start a fascist dictatorship if I win" Trump is worse than Joe "Please don't commit genocide or I'll write you a strongly worded letter" Biden.
I see the problem you're making, it's not always obvious so it's kind of hard to deal with.
The issue is expecting logic to have any affect on some people.
(It's always worth the effort I'm just poking fun) :P