• @Funkwonker@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    05 months ago

    I still can’t get over how they were essentially presented with a simplified version of the trolley problem and chose to not pull the lever.

    By their own narrative that “the democrats are complicit in a genocide in Gaza”, they were aware that Palestinians were metaphorically tied to both tracks, yet decided to not pull the lever when America itself and every marginalized person living within was also on the track the trolley barreled towards.

    • @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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      25 months ago

      Why the fuck did the democrats leave Palestinians to their tracks?

      This didn’t have to be a difficult problem where we’re forced to vote for genocide. The only people at fault for the democrats doing something as wildly unpopular as genocide, silencing anyone who said “You need to stop this if you want to win”, and reaping the effects of that policy being unpopular are the democrats.

    • @Iceman@lemmy.world
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      15 months ago

      I find it scary how easily people where fine with having genocide on both sides of the ticket.

    • @CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      05 months ago

      I suspected that many of the accounts were Russian plants or Trump supporters trying to divide the Democrat vote. Most of the time when I checked account age they were made either that day or the day before.

      I know that Lemmy is new and all but still was sus.

      I haven’t gone back to accounts to see if they are still active. I suspect that they aren’t.

      • @finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Even worse, I think those Tankies really were just Tankies. They don’t want the USA to be fixed, they don’t care about creating actual socialism, they just want us all to off each other. I would get into discussions with those supposed purists abstaining from Kamala in democrat centric discussions and they almost always out themselves as another masked up Tankie talking about the USA as an evil empire that needs more destruction.

        They’re still active now, too, trying to promote their version of “resistance” which is just more of the nation harming itself until nothing is left to oppose the CCP.

      • @fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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        05 months ago

        I suspect that what we saw here on lemmy were actual people who had been indoctrinated elsewhere.

        Lemmy isn’t really big enough to be a target for bots and so on.

        • @Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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          05 months ago

          Bots are cheap to write. That’s naive to think there wasn’t a disinformation war going on with bots being on the forefront of it.

          • @fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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            15 months ago

            Hmm, I’m not naive enough to believe that Lemmy is free from disinformation and bad actors, but I would be surprised if it was targeted by sophisticated state actors.