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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Bunch of you clowns on lemmy these days. Anti-vote, anti-Biden, anti-democrat. A concerted effort slinging made up crap like “genocide Joe” and other extreme hyperobole equating voting dem, or voting at all, as some sort of support for Israel’s actions.

None of you ever mention trump basically stating he’s going to give Israel free rein to wipe out hamas/palestine, hand Ukraine to the Russians, undermine NATO and fellate dictators everywhere, much less spare no effort to make himself a permanent dictator here in the US.

But hey, don’t vote Biden, amirite?

Where are you all brigading from anyway? Hexbear?

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Watch : it’ll be the same Russian bots that pushed the pizza gate when Hilary was running against trump spewing this shit

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Because it works 😕

I believe that the effective growth of this kind of stuff, coupled with the decay of "objective" journalism whatever its significant faults might have been, is behind the surge in authoritarianism worldwide in places that used to be democracies. Reduced to the core, the price of a machine that turns money into public opinion has been going down, down, down, to the point where all you need is like 30-40 people working 40 hours a week at it, in order to create a significant change in electoral results anywhere in the world you'd like to create one.