“We recognize that, in the next four years, our decision may cause us to have an even more difficult time. But we believe that this will give us a chance to recalibrate, and the Democrats will have to consider whether they want our votes or not.”

That’s gotta be one of the strangest reasonings I’ve heard in a while.

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    Neither a third party candidate nor an independent candidate has ever won the presidential election in this country.

    The republican party didn’t even form until 1845. For a while it was the Whigs and the Democrats. We’ve had at least 5 different parties win the POTUS. I’m not saying this is astonishing, but the claim that a third party has never won is laughably wrong. I even explicitly noted it to you and you weren’t smart enough to go look it up on your own.

    For the purposes of counting votes, voting third party or independent for a presidential election is the same as not voting.

    Incorrect. The votes still count. When it comes to the electoral system, it’s effectively the same on the outcome.

    However, when it comes to showing who you support, clearly who you actually support (especially if we are talking by giving them your vote) it’s not even remotely the same.

    And this is the central part of what we are arguing here - something you keep insisting we stick to. … of course only when it suits your point, going off on ridiculous logical tangents is “persusive” when it helps you make your point. lol - so trying to argue that you don’t actually support the person you are voting for, but some other person, is just plain bat-shit crazy reality denialism.

    I refuted their central point in that statement by establishing the logical contradiction there in.

    No, you refuted nothing. You just called them liars with zero evidence. Your accusation is based solely on the fact that it contradicts the conclusion you’ve already come to. You don’t care about reality, you care about trying to convince people you are right.

    But are you just going to drop the fact that you used the ad hominem to refute their claim?

    Actually, you know what? You’re lying right now and you actually agree with me, because no one would be stupid enough to hold your position. That was easy. lol I like this style of debate.