US politics are so wild that it's really hard for me to distingish satire from reality.
For those of us in the US that are not Blue MAGA or Red MAGA, it’s getting hard to distinguish hell from reality.
What is Blue MAGA?
Pretty sure it's a far right false equivalence
Oh lmao. Some enlightened centrist bullshit. Advocating for public transportation and healthcare are the same thing as literal fascism to them, I guess.
More Blue MAGA psyops - you are advocating for a checklist of things in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and acting like it is the same thing as actually practicing Human Rights.
#RatifyICESCR.
The latest russian propaganda term
Something one says when one is committed to bothsidesing but not stupid or shameless enough to pretend an insurrection is a tour group.
Good faith would be the "vote blue no matter who" and "every vote not for biden is a vote for DRUMPF" crowd
This isn't how the democrats reach out. This is an info op.
For the last few years, I just reply to everything with some raunchy furry porn, whatever I have on-hand on my phone, followed by 'stop'. Most are just automated, but now and again an actual person will reply, and it brings me joy. You didn't ask for gay furry bondage porn, I didn't ask to be bothered. An eye for an eye and all that...
You didn’t ask for gay furry bondage porn
The manual replier be like
By responding, regardless of what you say... you've given them information that you exist as a human.
Yeah, even texting STOP is still giving them what they want - they included that to trick people who would otherwise ignore it into verifying their existence.
That is fun for the person who just had their phone number spoofed by the people who sent the spam, and now received furry porn from some random idiot.
Well that's definitely not some scam. What's the betting that the URL asks you for a load of personal information to confirm your identity.
Me: [receiving an obvious identity theft SMS] is this Blue MAGA?
Nobody should respond to that. It's the senders data set that's being polluted, not the receivers.
Whatever party this is by, this might just annoy people so that they won't want into either category, thus becoming a non-voter – which benefits nobody.
This should be illegal, >99% of people hate getting such messages unsolicited (the rest are the ones sending them). However, "rule of law" is a joke in several ways in this two-party system.
This is definitely not a legitimate message. The site doesn't exist and the Democrats don't send messages like that. The closest they get is linking a headline of Trump doing something stupid and saying "donate now to stop Trump."
lol Blue MAGA that’s a good one, thank you for that
@return2ozma@lemmy.world Question for you
What do you mean by "blue MAGA"? I mean I know it's the Democrats, but why that term specifically?
spoiler
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Blue MAGA is a subculture of the DNC whose purpose is to bully and marginalize anyone who critiques the Dem party leadership.
Blue MAGA is a subculture of the DNC whose purpose is to bully and marginalize anyone who critiques the Dem party leadership.
What is it called when people make up a name for a group of people and assign motivations to them even though the people doing the naming are massively exaggerating, or seeing a few outliers and painting them as the norm for everyone they disagree with they disagree with?
And the name is specifically designed to resonate in a particular way with the lizard-brain in a way that paints the message "These are the BAD group of people, everyone doesn't like them and shits on them with little nicknames, don't you want to be like everyone, and join us in hating on them too." It's inventive and creative (I mean, sort of) in a memorable way, and carelessly insulting, even though when you look at it, it doesn't make any fucking sense.
It just kinda stuck out to me. Like the post title wasn't "DNC is getting weird again" or "Oh God we're screwed in the fall aren't we" or "Didn't I just GIVE you some money" or anything like that, it was specifically inventing a new little mini-slur to pass around and for everyone to use, free of charge.
Like I say, it just kind of stuck out to me a little.
"Critiques"
Interesting
So other than responding disagreeably to a critique, what other features? Or just that?
I ask because this type of Hillary Clinton DNC-consultant crap you're screenshotting in this text message has been following Democrats around for quite a while now, consuming their money and providing only failure in return, but MAGA is kind of an incongruous term to use to describe it. Like when I think of MAGA I don't normally think of things like this; right?
There's the Trump cult and the Dem cult. The Blue MAGA are the ones that defend any and all criticism of the Democratic Party, to a cult-like status.
This is the DCCC.
Your donation dollars at work.
Just to fact-check that statement, anyone know how to follow the money on “National Democratic Training Committee PAC” (https://traindemocrats.org, which is what train-dems.us resolves to)?
edit: easier than i thought,
Why censor the link? Perhaps I would like to provide feedback. Purely constructive criticism mind you.
Here's the URL. I blurred out an identifier part of the URL.
https://training-dems.us/poll-may-16-2
Edit: tracked the domain, registered to one Eric Mayefsky, bruh who is 'building apps for the left'
I fed it an email address of "freegaza@gmail.com" to see what the poll questions were... this one is telling:
Anyone catch what's missing?
"The economy"?
"Inflation"?
"Wars in Gaza or Ukraine"?
Whoever put this together has fucked up priorities.
They're not real polls I used to give a lot to Dems, so I still get a shit of spam from them.
One time it actually just looked like a legit poll they wanted his likely voters to take...
It was three bullshit questions, and one of them was how bad trump is. Then it took me to a donation page with $100 default and a big countdown clock. I wanted to see what would happen so I waited the two minutes. The countdown started again, it was a loop.
No way to submit survey unless you donated too. So even if they cared about results it was only if you gave and likely to be rated by how much you gave.
Both parties are obsessed with donations because that's a nice lifestyle when your job is getting the donations. And that's all it takes these days to get senior leadership positions in the DNC or Biden campaign, just bring in as much money possible.
That means more of this bullshit, that probably turns off more potential donors than anything.
Fucking UN Human Rights aren’t on that list.
https://train-dems.us resolves to https://traindemocrats.org
“Paid for by the National Democratic Training Committee PAC”
edit: https://pitchbook.com/profiles/person/54951-76P
“Eric has a PhD in Economics from Stanford and worked on Facebook's ad auctions for over 3 years. He's currently working on a behavioral finance startup.”
“behavioral finance” code word for psychological manipulation using money, typical Blue MAGA
edit 2: someone else had claimed to have verified that the whois for both urls matched, but I did not double check. After double-checking, in actuality, they do not match - train-dems goes to the Amazon Registrar wheres traindemocrats goes to the Cloudflare Registrar.
It is not likely that a website operator would utilize two different registrars like that, so this is instead a likely case of outside interference.
Blue MAGA should be ashamed of using the UN UDHR as a checklist for a platform instead of practicing Human Rights and ratifying ICESCR.
And Mr Eric Mayefsky, apologies, and I just hope that you will not be practicing any dark patterns of psychology.
“behavioral finance” code word for psychological manipulation
Funnily enough that’s exactly how I interpret “former monetisation manager at Meta” as well.
brb gonna send them some porn to make sure they don't accidentally "count my vote"
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