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I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?
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Yup that is a conspiracy theory and super not cool of you.
It's mostly information warfare from the various social media. There have already been a few analyses showing that pro-Republican anti-Democrat sentiment was algorithmically pushed on tiktok, Facebook, X(obviously), Instagram, YouTube, etc. I do believe a lot of people even here on lemmy were Russian/Chinese just stoking the flames because a divided america is good for them.
I think there are significantly more "useful idiots" than actual state actors trying to sow division. Most of them probably had good intentions, they just refused to listen to reason.
It's a funny and depressing situation that Lemmy users are so adamant that no one could possibly have a different perspective than them and if they do they must be Russian assets.
Despite those exact positions being reflected in real human American/western political voices--when it shows up in our special little space suddenly it's spoooooky foreign astroturfing. I believe the kids call that behavior "cope." XD
Oh there's certainly real belief too but the "loudness" is certainly amplified beyond what it would usually be. A lot of those accounts have been entirely silent on the conflict since the election which is suspicious to me.
Can you cite a few of said accounts so I can take a look? For me, I still see a lot of pro-Palestine sentiment. But to me, it makes nothing but sense that after the election people stop talking about... the election, y'know? You'll notice MAGA voices also stopped talking about the election too, haha.
They won't, it's a talking point they were always going to deploy and has nothing to do with evidence. Of course, political discourse was always going to die down after the election, and there's also several accounts they're not seeing because they got banned (lol). BlueAnon isn't based on reason.
They see us speaking up in every thread like this and still... At ~~dinner~~ some point you get so sick of it you just stop responding because the election is over.
Maybe I should just start talking about how all the pro-Kamala people suddenly disappeared after the election, proving that they were feds. Turns out you can just say stuff.
I got better things to do than go back and find them. Just a trend I noticed. I still see pro Palestinian sentiment (which i agree with) but i don't see the level of blame assignment Biden and Dems got. I see some outrage about like the golden pager but not about rereleasing 2ton bombs. For people who seemed so single-issue its odd.
I mean yeah why would anyone talk about the election anymore unless they've got some new take or perspective on why dems lost.
fair enough!
for what it’s worth i’m probably one of the people you thought was a russian troll. so here’s some blame for old time’s sake: Biden is partially responsible for the estimated 200k deaths in Gaza and still has blood on his hands. i voted for Harris but like many i advocated for her to diverge from Biden on Gaza for her entire campaign.
That's not the view the people I'm talking about were voicing. The people I'm talking about were saying Biden/Harris or Trump would be the same for Gaza so they weren't going vote or were voting third party that way magically the blood isn't on their hands. "How is Trump worse for Gaza?" was a common response to calling them out.
This take of vote harris and advocate for her to do better on Gaza is not the take I was seeing and it's not one I have an issue with since it was my view as well. Espousing that view in those threads just resulted in obtuse takes per the above.
ah also fair! I only assumed because i myself have also been accused of being a Russian operative many times
I guess the real "both sides" was all along just the answer to "who here works in a troll farm?" ;P
Of course there's absolutely evidence of pro-Republican, anti-Democrat manipulation. But find me evidence algorithm manipulation of pro-Palestine anti-Democrat sentiment. Otherwise you are doing some pretty hateful fearmongering.
The "everyone on here is a Russian bot" narrative here is so embarrassing. Get real.
I certainly didn't say everyone just that they're here and they enjoy stoking the flames. Propaganda is everywhere from all sides.
The "sides" are not even remotely the same
All the .ml crap that is suddenly silent was often revealed to be pro-ccp accounts doing exactly that.
Source?
Downvotes aren't citations, I'm asking for proof of China's actions. Don't downvote and ignore the truth like Republicans.
Go read old posts, I'm not here to spoon feed you out of your ignorance.
So that's a no on giving a source on that claim like Republicans..
Edit: Downvotes aren't citations.
Why would I save links to ML clowns getting called out or shown to be shills? What an absurd thing to request. Source: Lemmy. Dig deeper on your own, it's not my job.
"Why would I save links to democrats getting proven to be shills by Soros? Dig deeper on your own. It's not my job!"
So that's a no on "I have a source for my claim" like Republicans and religious beliefs.
I wouldn't be dumb enough to ask for that, so your argument is invalid. As for the last bit, I was clear, your inability to comprehend, or whatever you have to do to validate your ignorance isn't my problem. Do better.
I'll do better because I at least am willing to give citations and sources and admit I was wrong when my statement was incorrect.
> Pretending we didn't see it happen already
Allow me to remind you of Rally Forge's "America Progress Now" and Jeff Ballabon's "Jexodus" as two recent examples.
Cite a proven example of pro-Palestine manipulation, and we can discuss it. Otherwise, no.
Both examples you provided are trivial as they don't interface with literal apartheid or genocide. This is a significant difference being overlooked, and without evidence, I have no reason to believe this conspiracy.
New "Leopards Ate My Face" dropped. In this fun twist, however, after seeing the Leopards Eating Faces party feed people's faces to leopards multiple times, the user continues to give the party the benefit of the doubt when confronted with the likelyhood that it's happening again.
So no example, got it. It's fine for you to engage in fearmongering and unevidenced cynicism. I choose not to. My regards. Free Palestine.
There's a big difference between being realistic and fearmongering. For instance, if there was no history of domestic and foreign entities utilizing astroturfing to undermine democracy and people were saying it's happening now, that's fearmongering. Considering that there is, however, and that it seemed to work last time, it's naive to assume that it wouldn't happen again, especially when similar patterns of behavior emerge, including the presence of a new hot-button topic that can be utilized. That's realism.
Also, how incredibly low of you. By ending your negative response to me with "free Palestine," you're clearly trying to imply that I am somehow with my responses showing some implicit support for Israel's genocide. Again, how low of you.
It's about to be free of Palestinians. GJ protest voters!