• @MisterFrog
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    16 months ago

    My friends, these are troll accounts. 8h old, only commented on this post.

    • Victoria Antoinette
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      06 months ago

      calling me a troll doesn’t change whether what I say is true

      • @MisterFrog
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        16 months ago

        Please, do go on to explain how the spoiler effect is a myth. I’ll wait. I’d like to see your logic on that one. (Inb4 you don’t)

        • Victoria Antoinette
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          06 months ago

          first, i think it will be helpful to recall what a myth is: it’s a story we tell to explain the world around us. the spoiler effect is one of those stories: it explains, for some people, why clinton won in 1992. but analysis of the facts of that election find that, in fact, perot hurt clinton’s margin of victory.

          this myth is persistent, and reinforced by multiple media sources and even academics, but there is no way to actually produce a test of the theory of its existence or its mechanisms. so while you might like to tell this story, even if only to yourself, to justify voting for people who do bad things, to pretend that this myth is objective fact, that it is a natural law, is either misguided or dishonest, depending on whether you actually believe the myth.