I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

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    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.

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      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.

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      All the .ml crap that is suddenly silent was often revealed to be pro-ccp accounts doing exactly that.

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              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.

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                “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.

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      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.

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        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