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The fact that you're more angry at those 22.198 people than the fact that our election system has been a broken joke since long before the year 2000 and continues to be a broken joke because of the undemocratic Electoral College is kind of pathetic.
Why aren't you mad about that? Instead you're mad at a group of citizens whose only power is their vote, while Senators and House Representatives who could have done something to change us to a better system have done fuck-all in decades.
Further, why aren't you mad that the Supreme Court stole the election? And then rewarded the people who worked the case with their own Supreme Court seats? Or are you just fine with open corruption and prefer to blame people with no power?
EDIT: Oh, also a reminder, Gore won the popular vote by over 500,000 votes. But keep sucking up to this broken dead worthless system that ignores the popular will of the people. Stay mad at hose 22,000 people I guess, because that totally makes fucking sense.
EDIT II: Damn I really triggered a bunch of bitches who don't want to wish for a better world but want to instead make excuses for why this one should keep sucking.
It's possible to be mad at both of those things... over and over... every fucking election cycle.
Source: me.
Seriously, I fucking hate arguments like this. "Why are you mad about x and not y?" Bitch, I'm angry about both!
Why all the whataboutism?
Every election cycle there is a non zero number of people that get tricked into voting against their own best interest. That’s a valid thing to call out and be angry about.
Just because that commenter pointed that out doesn’t mean he doesn’t also get angry about all the other things you’re “whatabouting” about.
Holy shit my dude, calm the fuck down. I neither expressed any agreement nor disagreement with the facts, and you're just making baseless assumptions about how I feel about them.
No, I am not "more angry" at the Green voters than I am at insert whatever reason you think was the most important contributor to Gore's loss you want here. But it is ridiculous to assume they (you?) share no part of the blame for Gore's loss, when it's demonstrable that in fact they bear some amount. Also I find it amusing you're telling me who I should be mad at and you never once mentioned the Republicans who voted for Bush.
Did SCOTUS make a bad ruling? Abso-fucking-lutely they did. But you know what? If NH had gone to Gore SCOTUS wouldn't have even mattered.
Does our system suck? Abso-fucking-lutely it does. You can rant and rave all day about how unfair and undemocratic it is, and how much it needs to change and I'll spend all day agreeing with you. But the difference between us is, I recognize that voting is a tactical decision, not an emotional one. I don't particularly like the Democrats, probably for many of the same reasons you would list. I vote for them in the general election, however, because I understand that not doing so helps Republicans win. Again, this is literal demonstrable fact. And I agree with the Dems on a hell of a lot more than I do with the GOP.
edit: also the popular vote literally doesn't matter. Source: non-Presidents Gore and Clinton.
This is the only "argument" these people have.
I'm not even exaggerating when I say that every single discussion that I've had on this site about this topic has ended the same exact way: with a straw man and/or whataboutism. It's all they have.
Your usage of the word tactical is appropriate.
Liberals always try to justify voting for literal genocidaires, over the left demanding something for their ever increasingly important vote, by couching their arguments in the vestments of logic and game theory.
You know, without a mathematical background.
And then they fucking butcher it because the argument they put fourth is from week one of a 101 entry level game theory class.
To put it another way:
You're tactically voting and losing the war when you need to be voting strategically.
That involves the left demanding things for their view, and the right that has stayed in power in the DNC, through cheating, giving some up.
Meanwhile, dumb people that like to feel smart justify demanding the left give up power for free while holding those in power to absolutely no accountability.
Always punching down.