I caught GodlessCommie admitting they aren't from the US even though they post exclusively US politics content. They literally replied to me "Democrats are Republicans". They are trying to convince people not to vote so that the fascists keep control after the election.
I'm glad that calls out GodlessCommie's behavior as counter to the cause. Their argumentation is... legendarily bad. If one were trying to use an internet forum advance the march of fascism from within the Left, it would look like GodlessCommie's actions.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... good thing we didn't step in it. :D
Edit: clarify my sentiments in the first sentence
Its (not) nice to see that name again. I blocked the Lemmy.ML instance but it is good to point out new users that instances such as this one are sophisticated propaganda meant to discourage voting, disingenuous arguments of both sides being the same. You'll notice they never blame the right wing (who is currently in power). The point being, they don't want right wing candidates losing ANY election.
They'll grasp at straws or post some obscure "news" sites with obvious bias if you browse around the sites they post and if all else fails they will suggest you vote third party. As if that ever works and wouldn't split the vote. Need I remind everyone rfk jr was running third party but they realized he would only split the vote from trump.
As much of a jackass as that guy is, a lot of people who aren't from the US weigh in on US politics and I think that's fair enough. Unfortunately, US elections have a massively outsized impact on people all over the world compared to any other countries elections, and the people that will be affected deserve to have their voices heard. Of course, it's also important for a person to be honest about not being from the US.
Because of the implication?
Every election season I assume correctly that the major political communities get inundated if not co-opted by these types of bad faith actors
A number of the .ml usual suspects are training accounts for social media information warfare, I'm convinced. They probably do have a single handler, but I suspect trainees are also given control of the account to practice master debation before they are moved over to reddit and Facebook for assignment. They really aren't even subtle about it.
They always come out of the woodwork near elections. Mock and move on.
TiL that Texas is a foreign country.
You do live in fascist america, and you support that fascism. So the comment is true.
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