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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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no one fucking told me about states banning RCV during all that yapping on here about how i should VOTE THIRD PARTY OR ELSE IM COMPLICIT in the DNCs CRIMES

it may or may not be joever, very blackpilled at this moment

edit it’s actually 10 states. 5 in the past two months.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

it's not a pun. there is no pun at all. you're lying about how votes are counted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The pun is about the double meaning of the word "count":

The literal act of measuring the number of instances of a certain thing. In our case - whether the people working the election will physically be able to count the physical vote (or digitally. This is about the concept in general, not about a particular voting mechanism)
A contribution toward something. In our case - the fact the votes were stolen affects the outcome, so it counts toward changing the result.

So what am I lying about exactly? I've presented an hypothetical case, and made two claims about it:

That the stolen votes will not get counted (in the first meaning of the word)
That my action counts (in the second meaning of the word)

Which of these claim is incorrect?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought we were talking about counting votes the whole time. I'm not interested in helping you with your mental gymnastics routine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I thought we were talking about counting votes the whole time.

We are, sort of, but counting votes is not just a fun pastime activity - it's a mean for determining who will take the power (or, in depending on the political system, how the power will be distributed) so my argument is that there is a meaning to the result of that count.