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The video sharing app faces being banned in the US unless it severs ties with its China's ByteDance.

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  • 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).

    • 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.

      • 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.

        • 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.

          ...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.

          Only if you believe that election wasn't stolen.

          • 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.

            That's the strange part! Why is staying home a vote for Trump but not a vote for Biden? What makes them different?

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