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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How does your agreement or disagreement have any impact at all?

This is a democracy. Potential voters are being influenced right now by the discussions we're having.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I should clarify then.

There is currently some percentage of people who plan to vote for Biden, some that plan to vote for Trump and some who are undecided.

Most polling shows that, if there was an election today, Biden would lose pretty badly.

If you simply agree or disagree, is that likely to change anyone's planned voting behavior? If you continue to insult the people who do not currently plan to vote for Biden, do you think that will change their minds?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you continue to insult the people who do not currently plan to vote for Biden, do you think that will change their minds?

Yes. People who plan to protest vote are stupid and should feel stupid. We should be peer pressuring the fuck out of them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So you think that telling someone that they're stupid and should feel stupid is a good way to change their mind?

Has that ever worked for you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Works all the time. You've never heard of peer pressure?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Peer pressure is certainly effective but it's not clear this is the same thing.

Do you think they consider you their peer?
Do you consider them your peers?

In cases where you've actually seen peer pressure work, was it actually because you were able to bully your peers into some behavior?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes...that's how peer pressure works

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The obvious counterdemonstration would be for me to start calling you names and yelling at you to change your mind.

I won't bother with that since it's fairly clear to me that such tactics would be entirely wasted.

Am I wrong? Do you actually believe in this tactic enough to claim that it would also work on you? If not, why do you think it works in one case but not the other?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Because I'm not the typical low information voter.

Anyone who believes in protest voting is gullible enough to be swayed by peer pressure. That's how they decided to protest vote. It's impossible to take an informed look at things and rationally decide to protest vote (except for solidly red or blue areas, and even then it's dangerous to brag about it).