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If Boro is claiming that others are wasting their time by voting:

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I am arguing that if a bunch of people are going to waste their time voting anyway



...then trying to influence their behavior is still a negative EV move. In other words, a losing play is a losing play.

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Wrong. Borodog doesn't lose when a person votes ineffectively

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Conversely, by claiming voting is a waste of time, Boro doesn't gain when a person votes effectively. That's what would make a waste of time. If he's not gaining or losing anything, then he's wasting his time trying to change voting behavior.

Unless he does gain or lose when someone votes effectively or ineffectively. Then voting is a productive use of someone's time, because it produces gains and losses -- which contradicts the claim that voting is a waste of one's time.