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You're ignoring the "prayer of winning" part. Until then, I'm voting against the bigger asshole.
Yes, but as it turned out, Harris didn't have a prayer either. If you weren't voting for Trump (I assume you consider him to be the bigger asshole) it didn't matter if you voted for Harris or any other candidate. So unless the Democrats make big changes to their platform and the people running their campaigns... well, it's insanity to expect a different result. There's got to be a point where progressive Democrats decide that they might as well vote with some dignity for third party candidates.
Until I have good reason to believe that my vote stands a good chance of actually mattering should I do such a thing, no. There's no way of knowing the result beforehand, so I'd rather play it safer and spend it on trying to prevent the worst possible outcome. Might not always work, but then again it might.
In a FPTP race with a large electorate, it's a pretty safe bet that your individual vote will not matter to the outcome. That's not even considering the effect of the Electoral College.