• Digit@lemmy.wtf
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      2 days ago

      Why do you presume that’s so obviously false?

      It seems like you’re not getting what it’s alluding to. Or worse, intentionally muddying the waters and poisoning the well, as well as doing an ad-hominem smear on my character asserting it’s a lie.

      Why do you think that’s a lie?

      Is it not immediately evident to you what that’s getting at? In how a no vote is silent in the vote-count, and lends more weight to the turnout, in whichever tyrant they vote for? Isn’t its poetic expression evoking in your mind how a no-vote is a way of saying your voice matters less, so little in fact, that any tyrant will do?

      Does it not become clear to you the distinction between a spoiled ballot in protest and a no-vote having no weight of protest?

      Do you think if the majority do not vote, their no-votes are counted, and then there’s no government? Because that’s obviously false, right? Isn’t that the majority of times? Certainly of the population, if not just the electorate. They count the votes of the turnout. Don’t vote, don’t become part of the turnout, then your vote, your voice at the ballot box, is as mute as saying any tyrant will do.

      Pray tell, how is this seen otherwise to you? Where do you perceive a lie? Where do you see the falsehood that you consider so obvious in this?