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TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US (www.bbc.com)

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Okay, but then isn't staying home also a vote for Biden by the same logic?

This isn't a binary relation, there's clearly three options (vote for Biden, vote for Trump, vote for neither).

[-] christian@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That doesn't make any sense. The idea that staying home could be a vote for Biden seems pretty silly on its face. If that were true, there wouldn't be any point in going out to vote for him, because the majority (or at least a plurality) of the country stays home regardless. He'd win in a landslide.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

Why is it that staying home is a vote for Trump but it isn't a vote for Biden. Doesn't that seem strange to you?

And you're right, it doesn't make any sense, and that applies to staying home being a vote for Trump. The plurality of the country stays home, so Trump should win in a landslide, right? Yet he lost once. This seems like a glaring error in the idea that a protest vote is a vote for Trump.

[-] christian@lemmy.ml -2 points 7 months ago

Doesn’t that seem strange to you?

It doesn't seem strange at all. I have never once heard someone suggest that staying home is a vote for Biden, but it's pretty well agreed upon that not voting is a vote for Trump.