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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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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

This push to demonize the strawman protest voters is an ongoing propaganda campaign to cause poor people to infight.

This is a real propaganda campaign

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only speculation, but I believe you are right. This only started 2 days ago after Trump’s Gaza comments. It’s disheartening how easily it is to sway online discourse. Jokes on them, this only motivates me.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

It's also possible to run thousands of parallel chatbots to atroturf sentiment these days.

They will even scour the internet automatically to insert themselves into any slightly relevant conversation

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 day ago

you replied to me twice. i absolutely agree with your first sentence and i believe that the second sentence is applicable to other people—it’s possible you here just misunderstood my position due to my own inclarity