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[–] dota__2@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (5 children)

any even remotely law abiding politician(read american "left" wing) is kinda hamstrung with the current state of affairs.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I'm glad this troll bait crap is barely working, but it's working a little. Come on guys, don't be a stooge:

“Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”

The goal is to keep opinions we don't want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can,...

https://archive.is/PoUMo

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

This is not what's happening here. This isn't about rendering the libs ineffective. This is real people (this one's from Canada) trying to send the message that the standard American lib approach is ineffective. That the approach desperately needs to change for resistance to really work. And by libs, I and whoever made the meme mean most mainstream Democrat politicians and to a lesser extent voters who believe those politicians are doing everything in their power to resist fascism, despite the evidence to the contrary. There are a few good discussions in this thread on what's going on and what could and should be happening instead.

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